{"product_id":"2940169502718","title":"My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters: A BBC Radio 4 adaptation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenedict Cumberbatch and Louise Brealey read a love story in letters, played out against the backdrop of the Second World War.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Can you feel, as you read these words, that I am thinking of you now; aglow, alive, alert at the thought that you are in the same world, and by some strange chance loving me.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA small blue box opened in 2008 revealed a wartime world of love, longing and frustration. Inside were bundles and bundles of letters written neatly in pen, in pencil, on thin blue airmail paper or headed army notepaper. Envelopes covered in postmarks, redirections, censor's stamps. A love affair in letters, between two people who barely knew each other, thousands of miles apart, in the middle of a war, with no idea when or whether they will ever see each other again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn September 5th 1943, Chris Barker, a signalman stationed near Tobruk in North Africa, decided to write to a former work colleague, Bessie Moore, a Morse code interpreter at the Foreign Office back in London. The unexpected warmth of Bessie's reply changed their lives forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChris and Bessie's love letters first appeared in Simon Garfield's book \u003ci\u003eTo The Letter.\u003c\/i\u003e They toured literary festivals as part of Letters Live before being published in a book, \u003ci\u003eMy Dear Bessie.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by \u003cb\u003eChris Barker\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eBessie Moore\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLetters compiled by \u003cb\u003eSimon Garfield\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdapted by \u003cb\u003eSara Davies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProduced and Directed by \u003cb\u003eGemma Jenkins\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eCast\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChris..........\u003cb\u003eBenedict Cumberbatch\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBessie..........\u003cb\u003eLouise Brealey\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIrena..........\u003cb\u003eJane Slavin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47097980616944,"sku":"2940169502718","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169502718_p0.jpg?v=1763684438","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169502718","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}