Prunella Scales & Anne Reid star in this fractious festive series of the popular BBC Radio 4 comedy. It's Christmas & the Ladies of Letters are busy stuffing home made turkey sausages, adding hot pepper to their mulled wine & giving each other totally unsuitable Christmas presents. Vera has just returned from a festive trip to the Holy L&, where she has purchased Mary Mother of Jesus Jam & realised that the only universal religion is shopping. Then she & her family face homelessness when a heartless Bank buys up The Bothy for redevelopment. Irene, meanwhile, is inundated with family visiting for the Festive Season & is annoyed that Vera seems too caught up in her own concerns to consider hers. But Irene has to hold back on her grievances when Vera's daughter Karen finds a lump
- not as Vera originally thought, in her Nigella-style Christmas gravy
- but in her breast. As family descend on them both, pressure mounts & Christmas chaos inevitably ensues in this eleventh series of the radio comedy.