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Sherrie Hewson, 75, on why she will never act her age

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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

I’m officially of “pensionable age” – whatever that means – but every Saturday I still haul myself from Suffolk to London, put on the headphones and become “Sally Traffic” all over again. People often

I lived in Walsall when I was growing up and I still go back to see my dad, who’s in his 90s. It was a bustling place, there was a thriving market life. Every Saturday, me and my mates would walk thro