For more than four decades, she has been one of Britain’s most beloved comic voices. From the outrageous, anything-goes sketches of French and Saunders to the warm-hearted Geraldine Granger in The Vic

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Actor Jill Halfpenny on losing loved ones, leaving London and moving to the seaside, and starting a podcast