The Wireless Lady

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Peter Tinniswood

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Dramas and comedies from the popular British TV and radio writer, Peter Tinniswood

Peter Tinniswood: The Wireless Lady

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Peter Tinniswood, The Wireless Lady

Winifred Leslie, the Grande Dame of radio drama, feels forgotten. Stars Billie Whitelaw.

4 Extra Debut. Winifred Leslie, Grande Dame of radio drama, feels forgotten. But offered a part, memories flood back. Stars Billie Whitelaw.

Winifred Leslie, the Grande Dame of radio drama, lives alone and thinks she’s been forgotten. 

But when she’s offered a part by a young producer at the age of 80, her memories come flooding back:.

She recalls her three marriages, appearing on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs – and  being Samuel Beckett's muse.

Her companion in life is an old Bakelite wireless, which answers her back.  

Starring Billie Whitelaw and Christian Rodska.   

Peter Tinniswood’s sad, funny and joyous celebration of the great days of radio.    

Winifred Leslie    ……    Billie Whitelaw
The Wireless    ……    Christian Rodska 

Directed in Bristol by Shaun MacLoughlin.   

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1996

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