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Winifred Watson - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Winifred Watson - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day: Episode 1

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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Episode 1

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A spinster tries to be a governess, but lands a job which turns out to be a real education

An innocent spinster tries to be a governess, but lands a job which turns out to be a real education. Read by Maureen Lipman.

Miss Pettigrew is sent by her agency on a wrong booking. 

Her employer greets her wearing a negligee with a man in her room. In the face of such shocking behaviour, will the innocent spinster blunder or blossom?

Maureen Lipman reads one of her favourite books: Winifred Watson's touching and funny rediscovered bestseller from the 1930s. 

Abridged in five-parts by Elizabeth Bradbury.

Producer: Sarah Johnson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.

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An unmarried governess is sent by her agency to the wrong booking. Stars Maureen Lipman.

Maureen Lipman reads a touching and funny bestseller from the 1930s about an unmarried governess who is sent by her agency to the wrong booking

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