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15 Minute Drama: The Righteous Sisters

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Eleanor Crooks

Jonquil Panting

Jane Purcell

15 Minute Drama: The Righteous Sisters: Episode 1

Drama: Biographical

The Righteous Sisters

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 - 15 Minute Drama, The Righteous Sisters, Episode 1

Jane Purcell tells the remarkable true story of indomitable sisters Ida and Louise Cook.

A love of opera leads two remarkable sisters into a life of danger, in Jane Purcell's true-life tale of the remarkable Cook sisters' wartime adventures.

by Jane Purcell.

The true story of English sisters Louise and Ida Cook (better known as romantic novelist Mary Burchell), whose love of opera led them into a life of danger, rescuing Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. 

1/5 Civil servants may be 'safe until they're nailed down in their coffins', but when music comes into the lives of young Ida and Louise, romance and adventure come with it.

Translations by Johannes Mirbach

Original research by Louise Carpenter

Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting.

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By Jane Purcell. A love of opera leads two remarkable sisters into a life of danger

Jane Purcell's true-life tale. A love of opera leads two remarkable sisters into a life of danger

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