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Nanette Newman Jennie Linden Nigel Hawthorne Avis Bunnage Keith Barron Annette Crosbie Paul Daneman

Jessie 1980

90 minutes

A woman starts work as a nanny to a mute boy in a Victorian household. The boy's growing attachment to her however causes greater problems than his original detachment to his family. Part of the 1980 season of BBC Play for Today.

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