So Very Secret by Barbara Pym

Harriet Jekyll from the Foreign Office, visits her friend Cassandra near Oxford for a holiday during the Second World War.

But she never returns from the local hairdresser and Cassie becomes entangled in an intricate and dangerous espionage plot.

It takes her from her quiet village to London and to Shropshire.......

Starring Amanda Root and Miriam Margolyes.

Comedy thriller set in England in 1941 - So Very Secret, an unfinished novel by Barbara Pym

Dramatised by Elizabeth Proud

Cassandra Swann ... Amanda Root
Harriet Jekyll ... Miriam Margolyes

With:

Chris Emmett
Chris Pavlo
Nigel Anthony
Elizabeth Proud
Josie Kidd

Producer: Sioned William

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1998.