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Book at Bedtime: The Ladies of the House

Susan Jameson

Molly McGrann

Robin Brooks

Kirsteen Cameron

Book at Bedtime: The Ladies of the House: Episode 3

The Ladies of the House

Episode 3

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Arthur Gillies invites Rita and Annetta to work for him in his brothel at Primrose Hill.

Arthur Gillies invites Rita and Annetta to work for him in the Primrose Hill brothel. Flashing forward, Arthur's daughter Marie makes a life-shattering discovery at the bank.

Molly McGrann's new novel centres around the fallout from the discovery of the double life led by the late Arthur Gillies - on the surface a respectable businessman, whose widow and daughter have no idea that he made a fortune running brothels, for several decades, in some of London's most exclusive areas.

Tonight's episode flashes back to the arrival of Rita and Annetta at one of Arthur's 'houses' in the early 1960s. Then moves forward to the present, where a mistake at the bank leads Arthur's daughter, Marie, to discover the true value of her father's estate, which has been held in trust since his death.


Read by Susan Jameson
Written by Molly McGrann
Abridged by Robin Brooks
Produced by Kirsteen Cameron.

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