Ladies of Letters
Season 1
Two middle-age crazy English widows become best friends via letters, over many misadventure-filled years. Having met under a table at a wedding, when both were drunk with merriment, misunderstanding comes naturally to them.
Where to Watch Season 1
10 Episodes
- Episode Three
E3Episode ThreeIrene invites Vera to stay and takes her to the Cricket Club dance where she is to present a prize. However,due to a mix-up,Vera is asked to do the honours instead. An aggrieved Irene is put in mind of all the childhood disappointments she has suffered and Vera's attempts to cheer her up go awry. However, Irene has a far bigger problem to worry her, Lesley's imminent departure to Australia, which drives her to drink. - Episode Four
E4Episode FourVera's daughter Karen falls pregnant and Irene visits her. It becomes apparent that Karen gets on better with Irene than she does with her mother, who is unaware that her son Howard is gay. He lives on a farming commune called Sheep-Dippers with his 'friend' Anthony,both of whom are vegetarians but Vera just thinks this is very modern. Irene joins a protest group to stop nuclear waste being dumped under the local golf course. - Episode Five
E5Episode FiveIrene gets arrested during a demo against the dumping and ends up in hospital suffering from amnesia and prone to bad language. The vicar suggests Vera help her recall who she is by writing to her but the letters are all about Vera. Irene is released but, with her memory restored and finding herself next to a bull-dozer at roadworks,she decides to show her friends what happened at the demo and gets arrested again. - Episode Six
E6Episode SixIrene is in jail but popular with her cell-mates by showing them how to get round censorship in letters. Vera writes to her but censors her own letter so much it fails to make any sense. Then Vera gets arrested, following a police raid on the house due to Karen's drug-taking. The two ladies of letters thus end up on the same prison ship preparing the Christmas musical. - Episode Seven
E7Episode SevenHaving been considered mad by the court Irene is released from the prison ship 'Pride of Cleveland' and moves into Sheep-Dippers along with Vera's daughter Karen,with her baby Sabrina, and Howard and Anthony. She organizes a Vera Small Is Innocent fork and finger buffet to raise funds to draw attention to her friend's plight. Howard is enthusiastic and misses his mother, Karen believes she should rot in hell - Episode Eight
E8Episode EightDespite the success of the Free Vrea Small campaign, Vera herself decides she prefers the more exciting life on the prison ship,where she is organizing a performance of 'Les Mis'. Irene, vexed by Howard's whining for his mother and Karen's loose ways, evicts the squatters from Vera's house and moves in. However she learns that the council want to run a new by-pass through the back garden, which is the cue Vera needs to come home.
