For the first time, Nancy Mitford's four surviving sisters appear in one programme to describe how close her brilliant novels, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, are to upper-class life as it was lived between the wars and 3.ft6F
Pamela shows us Gloucestershire, where Lord Redesdale, immortalised as 'Uncle Matthew' in the books, brought up six daughters and one son. Diana, wife of Sir Oswald Mosley, lives in Paris, where Nancy spent the latter part of her life. Jessica, herself a distinguished author, now lives in California, a seasoned rebel and left-wing sympathiser. Finally, Deborah, the Duchess of Devonshire, puts in perspective the turbulent Mitford family.
There are contributions from their nephew, Jonathan Guinness, and Nancy's French admirer, 'The Colonel'.