LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Patricia Routledge
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The lady of the house Hyacinth Bucket (Patricia Routledge) has turned being a snob into an art form. Her surname is pronounced "Bouquet" don't you know and her family don't help. Her long-suffering husband Richard (Clive Swift), keeps his head down and does his best to live with her domineering ways. But Hyacinth's a determined lady, with one mission in life - to impress. First broadcast in 1990, this release features every episode from Series One and Two of Keeping Up Appearances.
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Patricia Routledge is Vera Small and Prunella Scales is her bosom buddy Irene Spencer. The two keep up a regular correspondence and now, with the advent of email, the ladies of letters can communicate daily. There are the usual domestic mishaps to fret about: Irene's daughter Lesley is refusing to marry the worthy but boring Brian; Vera's exhausted daughter Karen has abandoned her third baby at the hospital and eloped with a male nurse; and Vera's gay son Howard and his partner Anthony are trying for a baby- with the help of a surrogate mother and a television crew.
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Patricia Routledge (Keeping Up Appearances) turned her comedic talents to dramatic advantage in this series, first broadcast on Mystery! A sprightly housewife from Lancashire, Hetty Wainthropp is in no mood to drop out when her husband retires. A chance job turns into a new profession at 60 for Hetty, who teams up with a destitute teenager to create her own detective agency. Six episodes test Hetty's determination to be a gumshoe of distinction.
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Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge take on the world in another hilarious series of the BBC Radio 4 comedy hit. 'There are few double acts that delight audiences quite as much as..."Ladies of Letters"' - "Daily Express". The intrepid grandmothers are back - and at loggerheads with their respective families. Vera decides to take a break in Ibiza, and invites Irene to join her. But, a simple holiday soon becomes a big adventure as the two quickly and inevitably fall out, get into separate scrapes in different countries, appeal to each other for help, and end up chasing round the world from Moscow to the Maldives. Short of cash, forced to take casual work, and having to sort out family crises back home, on the hoofand from a distance - nothing dampens their spirits.
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Patricia Routledge is best known for portraying busybody sleuth Hetty Wainthropp, and super snob Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances. But are there any similarities the actress and her two most famous characters...?
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Routledge made her Broadway debut in the short-lived 1968 musical Darling of the Day, for which she won a Tony Award as Best Actress in a Musical, sharing the honour with Leslie Uggams of Hallelujah, Baby!. Following Darling of the Day, Routledge had roles in several more unsuccessful Broadway productions, including a musical called Love Match, in which she played Queen Victoria; the legendary 1976 Leonard Bernstein flop, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, in which she portrayed every First Lady from Abigail Adams to Eleanor Roosevelt; and a 1981 musical called Say Hello to Harvey, based on the Mary Coyle Chase play Harvey, which closed in Toronto before reaching New York.
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