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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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1975-05-17
S1E3 — 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.
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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
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