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Does anyone remember Julie Walters as Mrs Overall in Acorn Antiques? she was ever so posh off screen in a huge pixx take by Victoria Wood it was great .

oh yes, seeker, she's another!

do you think they have to be able to do posh-thesp before they're allowed to graduate from drama school?

The actor who plays Dot Cotton is fantastically posh-thesp in real life- it's wonderful!

it's is weird when an actor is associated with one particular character to hear how they really speak.

Anita Dobson (Eastenders) & Sue Nicholls (Corrie) spring to mind - esp Sue Nicholls, who is an Hon, & sounds like one - it always sounds as if they're putting the real accent on, not the acting one!

I heard the actress interviewed on R4 and she speaks the "Queen's english" no accent at all.

She sounds a bit like Pam Eyres

she does, doesn't she? but we'll get used to it soon enough

I don't remember listening when she left all those years ago, but I was when Clarrie II died, & when Clarrie III took over I definitely thought that she sounded very strange to begin with

Oh she sounds so strange!

Yes ponders I'm glad she's got her job back. I will say that I never noticed the voices of the 'Clarrie' actresses changing so that was clever of them!

Sorry my mistake

I did say Clarrie II, Nuzzle...

Actress who has just left was Clarrie III and left to spend time with her family. It was Clarrie II (Fiona Mathieson) who commited suicide.

well, that was more than 25 years ago. I suspect their policies will be more user-friendly these days

& they have given her the job back now!

Blimey that says a LOT about the disgraceful management of TA. The Beeb really do need an overhaul don't they?

she was sacked apparently - she insisted on going to the funeral of the actor who previously played Joe Grundy when it clashed with a recording.

you'd think they could have rescheduled the recording

Clarrie II committed suicide

I didn't know that Clarrie mk 2 had died I wonder why Clarrie Mk 1 left in the first place?

'Watch out for a new Clarrie on Sunday. Or, strictly speaking, an old Clarrie as this Clarrie was also the first Clarrie. Spooky or what?'

I knew I recognised the name - Heather something, she was mentioned in a linky thing t'other day. I didn't realise it was Clarrie Mk I! (but of course it couldn't be Mk II because she died in RL, didn't she?)

oooh, thanks for the heads-up, ppeat!

here it is

I adore Nancy

Thanks songbird for the article, the comments are great; Nancy Banks Smith's article in yesterday's Grauniad was very funny (sorry I'm not good with links)

I DO have to DUH myself though calling the Trevor Howard\Celia Johnson film Close Encounter but it was quite apt for the alien meeting in TA .

Ouch! Great comments! It was a poor episode. Paul is a pathetic simpering prawn (lifted from the blog comments...)

Enjoy the comments below this article

Paul used to be almost interesting. Now he has the personality of a soggy lettuce.
And Lillian needs a tiger.

Yes cutted and yesterday's (that I just heard BTW) WTF a straight lift from Close Encounter; DUH what are the S.W's on ????

mumytime is right about the scriptwriters - it's like that game they play in 'I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue' where everyone is desperate not to be the one who finishes the story and it keeps going round and round.

And the undercover SFO officer...