sentences:  "Excellent Women" was serialised in 10 parts on BBC Radio 4's "Books at Bedtime" programme, read by Deborah Findlay 
  
  Barbara Pym's characters often reappear or are referenced in later novels.In "Jane and Prudence" (1953), one of the characters mentions that "nice Miss Lathbury" has married an anthropologist (presumably Everard).In "Less than Angels" (1955), Everard reappears as a character, described as "having married a rather dull woman who was nevertheless a great help to him in his work; as a clergyman's daughter she naturally got on very well with the missionaries that they were meeting now that they were in Africa again."