An Unsuitable Job for a Woman | Cordelia Gray, P. D. James, and the Mystery of Human Nature
What happens when a young woman inherits a detective agency that everyone assumes is doomed to fail?
In this Chesterton Radio Deep Dive, we enter the shadowy and sophisticated world of P. D. James’s An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, brought to life in a classic BBC Saturday Night Theatre production. At the center of the story is Cordelia Gray, a private investigator who refuses to accept the limitations others place upon her and who discovers that solving a mystery often means confronting uncomfortable truths about the people involved.
Our hosts explore what makes Cordelia such a remarkable…
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