Ladies Of Letters. Image shows from L to R: Vera Small (Anne Reid), Irene Spencer (Maureen Lipman). Copyright: Tiger Aspect Productions
Ladies Of Letters

Ladies Of Letters

  • TV comedy drama / sitcom
  • ITV3
  • 2009 - 2010
  • 20 episodes (2 series)

Comedy drama about two warring widows. Based on the books and BBC Radio 4 series of the same name. Stars Maureen Lipman, Anne Reid, Morag Siller, Daniel Crowder, Paul Chahidi and more.

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Series 2, Episode 6

Vera is in urgent correspondence with Lesley and then with Irene herself about Irene's breakdown. Was it the alcohol? or something more sinister?

Further details

Vera is in urgent correspondence about Irene's breakdown.

Domestic pressures didn't help, and maybe her new boyfriend Vincent wasn't all he was cracked up to be.

Meanwhile, Social Services are giving Vera a hard time: is her trailer a suitable home for her granddaughter Sabrina? Vera is wrestling with a refit to deal with all the health and safety requirements. Irene replies - but her grasp of reality is limited. She doesn't realise that the woman with the nasty face who visits her is her daughter, or remember Vincent, or understand why she's in a clinic.

Vera and her neighbour - psychic Yasmin - puzzle over Irene's verse account of her hallucinations. Vera decides to hand out some tough love and tells Irene to pull herself together and get off the booze. Yasmin sends 'absent healing' and a crystal.

Lesley writes to Vera in a fury: Karen and her new lover - the trailer park thug Damon - have flown to Oz and sprung Irene from the clinic! Who know where they are!

Vera soon finds out - when Irene writes to her from the outback, where she and her liberators are living rough amongst the kangaroos. She's feeling much better! Vera asks Lesley how she can get in touch with Irene, and confides that now Karen has fled to Australia, social services are much more relaxed about her having custody of Sabrina. A small extension has been built which can now house Damon's mad dog, and Vera has use of Damon's 4x4. So it's not all bad...

Broadcast details

Date
Tuesday 19th October 2010
Time
10pm
Channel
ITV3
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Thursday 21st October 2010 9:00pm ITV3
Sunday 24th October 2010 7:20pm ITV3
Wednesday 25th August 2021 10:30pm ITV3
Tuesday 21st December 2021 10:30pm ITV3
Wednesday 22nd December 2021 2:30am ITV3
Friday 16th December 2022 1:55am ITV3
Monday 15th May 2023 12:35am ITV3

Cast & crew

Cast
Maureen Lipman Irene Spencer
Anne Reid Vera Small
Morag Siller Karen
Lee Boardman Damon
Jonathan Coy Vincent
Stacey Roca Lesley Spencer
Jada Wallace-Mitchell Sabrina
Writing team
Lou Wakefield Writer
Carole Hayman Writer
Production team
John Henderson Director
Matthew Francis (as Francis Matthews) Producer
Sophie Clarke-Jervoise Executive Producer
Carole Hayman Associate Producer
Lou Wakefield Associate Producer
Rachel Alabaster Line Producer
David Yardley Editor
Heather Gibson Production Designer
Kate Day Casting Director
Aideen Morgan Costume Designer
John Ignatius Director of Photography
Sarah Grundy Make-up Designer
Mark Thomas Composer
Robert Fabbri 1st Assistant Director

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