Beatrix potter with patricia routledge biography
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Beatrix Potter with Patricia Routledge, a delightful documentary that celebrates the life of the beloved children’s author, begins airing on public TV stations next month.
“The Boo-KAY residence, the lady of the house speaking.”
Whoops, wrong show. But right actress. Meaning Patricia Routledge, perhaps better known to British TV fans as (the original) Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances and Hetty Wainthropp in Hetty Wainthropp Investigates — both of which air regularly in the US on public TV stations.
New to public TV stations starting in October is Beatrix Potter with Patricia Routledge, a recounting of Potter’s life story by one of the author’s biggest fans.
“A hundred and fifty years after she was born, I want to follow in her footsteps, hoping to discover the real woman behind the myth.” — Patricia Routledge
Routledge, who portrayed Potter in 1998 in the stage play Beatrix and is now Patron of the Beatrix P
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Patricia Routledge
English actress and singer (born 1929)
Dame Katherine Patricia Routledge (ROWT-lij;[1] born 17 February 1929) is an English actress and singer, best known for her comedy role as Hyacinth Bucket in the popular BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995), for which she was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance in 1992 and 1993.
Routledge made her professional stage debut at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1952 and her Broadway debut in How's the World Treating You in 1966. She won the 1968 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role in Darling of the Day, and the 1988 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for Candide. Her film appearances include To Sir, with Love (1967) and Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (1968).
On television, Routledge came to prominence during the 1980s in monologues written by Alan Bennett and Victoria Wood; appearing in Bennett's A Woman of No Importanc
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More4 celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of Beatrix Potter in a special documentary presented by actress Patricia Routledge. The programme will include an exclusive first televised interview with Sir Quentin Blake, the illustrator of rediscovered Beatrix Potter story Kitty in Boots.
Beatrix Potter with Patricia Routledge will air tonight (Tuesday 26th January) at 9pm on More4.
Programme information
Following in the footsteps of the Edwardian publishing känsla, the JK Rowling of her day, Patricia travels from London to Scotland and the Lake District to discover what fired Beatrix’s imagination and where her love and understanding of animals was born.
Building on her own experience as an actress who played Beatrix on scen in the 1990s and her pr