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So Very Secret by Barbara Pym

4 Extra Debut. 1941: When Harriet Jekyll of the Foreign Office suddenly vanishes, her friend Cassie lands in a spy plot. Stars Amanda Root.

Harriet Jekyll from the Foreign Office, visits her friend Cassandra near Oxford for a holiday during the Second World War. But she never returns from the local hairdresser and Cassie becomes entangled in an intricate and dangerous espionage plot - taking her from her quiet village to London and Shropshire.......

Comedy thriller set in England in 1941 - So Very Secret, an unfinished novel by Barbara Pym

Dramatised by Elizabeth Proud

Cassandra Swann ... Amanda Root
Harriet Jekyll ... Miriam Margolyes
With Chris Emmett, Chris Pavlo, Nigel Anthony, Elizabeth Proud, Josie Kidd

Producer: Sioned William

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1998.

1 hour

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Wed 20 May 202615:00
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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