Ladies of Letters

WELCOME

to the world of

Irene Spencer & Vera Small

the redoubtable

Ladies of Letters!

From the small beginnings of two friends playing a game,
the Ladies have grown into books, radio series, and now TV!

Find out how by clicking on the links to your left...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

2009 was a wonderful year for the Ladies, with a brand new television series (which was nominated for a British Comedy Award) and the tenth radio series being broadcast.

Now, a great new year is forecast for Ladies fans in 2010, with new series being released on both television and radio.

ITV 3

Based on the second book, 'Ladies of More Letters', ITV3 will be showing two Ladies of Letters seasons in 2010. The first five episdes will be shown in late Spring (and as soon as we know the dates, we'll let you know pronto). A stonking great cliff-hanger at the end of episode five will have your breath bated until the concluding five episodes are shown in the Autumn.

Now, before all you proactive Ladies viewers start mailing 'Why oh why have they split the series in two?', it is to do with budgets (yawn) and tax years (zzzz) and recessionary belt-tightening (ouch) or some such. But look at it this way: two pockets of TV cheeriness coming your way this year. How good is that?!

Starring our two usual suspects, Maureen Lipman and Anne Reid (recently voted a 'Sexy Senior Siren' in the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/dec/20/hollywood-sex-older-woman-weaver ), Series 2 has Vera living in a trailer park in Vicker-Upon-St Agnes, and Irene having a couple of sherries over the eight in Melbourne, where she's visiting her daughter, Lesley.

BREAKING NEWS

To warm you up for the new second series, ITV 3 will be repeating the whole of Series 1 in March 2010. As soon as we know the finer details, we'll let you know.

RADIO 4

We've just heard that the Ladies will be making their 11th series for release on Radio 4's Woman's Hour in 'Week 52', which translates, according to our trusty desk diary, to it being broadcast daily from Monday 27th December to Friday 31st December 2010. Look forward to our fabulous stars, Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge, seeing out the year with you in their own inimitable (some might say 'inimical') fashion.

IN THE MEANTIME

Can't wait for the new TV and radio series? Then buy:

The DVD of the first TV series..

The republished first book, now updated to incorporate new material generated by the ITV series...

The latest CD or download of the 10th radio series - Ladies of Letters Crunch Credit is available now in all good bookshops, and online as both a CD and as a download.

And while you're browsing, stock up on all the past Ladies of Letters CDs including the brand new reissue of the first and second CDs in the series!