Player's Angels

It’s 1953 and all the girls in Nottingham want to work at John Player’s, the best employer in town. Player’s Angels have a good wage, a tobacco allowance and a reputation.

Whilst Cyn dreams of being a beauty queen and Vee adjusts to married life, widowed Glad shares a secret with her young supervisor Bill. When the youthful Mae comes to work at Player’s, however, the lives and secrets of all the women change forever.

Based on real stories of the tobacco industry, Player’s Angels was staged in Bristol as The Wills’s Girls and became a BBC Radio Four Woman’s Hour serial.