Series

The Girls of Slender Means

19751 season3.7Drama

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.

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Episodes

1. Episode 1

In London 1945, when a world and a war were winding up with a bang, all the nice people were poor - especially the girls of the May of Teck Club fighting it out to the last clothing coupon.

50m

2. Episode 2

Poor, but savage, the girls of the May of Teck welcome Nicholas Farringdon , handsome anarchist and self-proclaimed genius, who is introduced to the club by Jane.

50m

3. Episode 3

Selina has claimed Nicholas from Jane who is too big for the lavatory window, the gateway to romance on the roof. Soon it's to become a way of life or death.

50m