In 1970, I worked for the first and only time with Peter Bowles in The Ambassador, part of a TV series called Happy Ever After – no, no, not the comedy with Terry Scott and June Whitfield – but a dram

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Natalie Sims Rees, 42, from Derby, is a former professional dancer who reached the final of C4’s The Great Pottery Throw Down last year. She lives with her wife Sarah and daughter Albie, six. I’ve alw

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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

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