Modesty Blaise - The Silver Mistress

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Ian McNeice

Clare Grogan

Ewan Bailey

Sara Markland

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Peter O'Donnell

Stef Penney

Modesty Blaise: The Silver Mistress: Episode 5

Modesty Blaise

Episode 5

Modesty Blaise: The Silver Mistress

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Modesty and Willie plan a daring escape using a false leg and engine grease.

Modesty and Willie plan an escape using a false leg and engine grease and Sexton must be finally confronted. Stars Ewan Bailey.

Sir Gerald Tarrant of British Intelligence has been imprisoned by kidnappers with a bizarre and deadly business plan, and subjected to slow torture in a Pyrenean Chateau by Martial Arts Master, Mr Sexton. Now Modesty and Willy have also been captured, along with Willie's girlfriend Lady Janet, and disgraced pilot, Quinn. 

To save her friends Modesty must face Sexton in a fight to the death. 

Conclusion of Peter O'Donnell's novel adapted by Stef Penney. 

Modesty Blaise . . . Daphne Alexander 
Willie Garvin . . . Paul Bazely 
Sir Gerald Tarrant . . . Ian McNeice 
Clare . . . Clare Grogan 
Sexton/Colonel Jim . . . Ewan Bailey 
Lady Janet/Angel . . . Sara Markland 
Quinn . . . John Ramm

With music by Will Gregory, arranged by Ian Gardiner and performed by the National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Ben Foster.

Sound by David Thomas
Director: Kate McAll

A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in February 2017.

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By Stef Penney. Action adventure with the female answer to James Bond.

Stef Penney's adaptation of Peter O'Donnell's novel. Action adventure with the female answer to James Bond.

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