The Girls of Slender Means

The Girls of Slender Means

Limited Series 1975 · 3 eps · ★ 3.7 · Drama

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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.

Created by Ken Taylor

Network: BBC Two

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