Next Sunday on Masterpiece Theater: The 39 Steps.

I will probably watch this adaptation of the novel because of Rupert Penry-Jones, but the other main character is a "feisty suffragette," Victoria Sinclair, played by Lydia Leonard. I haven't read the novel or watched the Hitchcock adaptation, so I don't know what sort of view is taken regarding the movement, if any.


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Apparently the character of Sinclair was invented for this adaptation. Something to make the story more palatable to the PC crowd?