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Episode 2: Jemima Gets Them Guessing

Jemima Gets Them Guessing

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By Hilda Richards. Eccentric Jemima Carstairs concocts a canny plan. But will it work?

By Hilda Richards. To save a fourth form chum from disgrace, eccentric Jemima Carstairs concocts a canny plan. But will it work? Stars Lisa Dillon.

Martin Jarvis directs Lisa Dillon's humorous performance as the entire Fourth Form of Cliff House School in 'Jemima Gets Them Guessing'. 

Written by Hilda Richards in 1939, eccentric, monocled Jemima Carstairs (a sort of female fourteen year-old Bertie Wooster with brains) is presented with a problem. One of their class-mates, Frances Frost - the icicle of the Fourth - threatens to blackmail decent Clara Trevlyn for visiting the Palais de Danse, thereby jeopardising Clara's position as Captain of Games. 

But Clara may have had a perfectly proper motive for breaking bounds. To save her chum, Jemima concocts a plan involving a beach-side confrontation and a mysterious boat-trip. Can Jemima rescue Clara's reputation and prevent her from disgrace?


Producer: Martin Jarvis
A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4.

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Series of three classic 'jolly hockey sticks' stories directed by Martin Jarvis

Three classic tales representing some of the best of popular 20th century girls school fiction. Directed by Martin Jarvis

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