Series profile

The Girls of Slender Means

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Drama

The Girls of Slender Means is a 1975 BBC television mini-series based on Muriel Spark's novel. The drama, aired in three parts, follows a group of young women living in a London boarding house in 1945, and is framed by a death that occurs in 1960.

The cast

Faces behind the story

Miriam Margolyes

Jane Wright

Patricia Hodge

Anne Baberton

Mary Tamm

Selina Redwood

James Laurenson

Nicholas Farringdon

Jack Shepherd

Rudi Bittesch

Judith Paris

Pauline Fox

Tony Millan

Ernest Claymore

The Girls of Slender Means

Faces behind the story

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