News about Patricia Hodge

Patricia Hodge has launched a scathing attack on cyclists after a near collision with an 'unforgivably rude' bike rider. The Miranda actress said cyclists think they are at the centre of the world and it's having a negative effect on society. The 77-year-old actress added that she feels she should speak out when she sees cyclists riding their bikes at high speeds but is often met with verbal abuse. The actress also noted that cyclists rarely get pulled over by police for running a red light or riding without bike lights on. Hodge said: 'I can't tell you how many continue to ride their bikes at speed, with mothers having to swiftly move their buggies out of the way.

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VINER: BRIAN VINER: In the Spanish-language film Society Of The Snow, an uplifting true tale involving a tragic plane crash and cannibalism can be considered encouraging. A Uruguayan air force plane Flight 571 bound for Chile in October 1972, carrying the Old Christians Club rugby team among its 40 passengers and five crews, crashed in the Andes. Almost half of those on board died as a result of their injury or within seconds. Others died later, but the 16 remaining survivors were rescued after only ten weeks.

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A tortoise, a boxer dog, and a terrier are only some of the animals the Yorkshire vets will encounter as Channel 5's hit revival of All Creatures Great & Small returns for a fourth season.

They make a riotous comedy team. And Nigel Havers, 71, and Patricia Hodge, 76, are back together, reprising their roles from Noel Coward's classic comedy play Private Lives. After touring around the United Kingdom last year, the pair have decided to bring the show to the Ambassadors Theatre for a limited 12 weeks.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: There's nothing wet or chinless about Alnwick, Jane Percy, who gave us a guided tour of The Duchess And Her Magical Kingdom (More4). Although the wife of the 12th Duke of Northumberland, she has dedicated 20 years to renovating the castle and its gardens, she does have some eccentric tastes, including a passion for taxidermy. On every sofa, retired pets lurk. This documentary, narrated by Amazing Spaces' George Clarke, may have been a much more enjoyable spectacle. Lady Percy, who favors a lambswool pullover with an Elizabethan ruff, is adorably bonkers.

At the Ambassadors Theatre in London, British actors Nigel Havers and Patricia Hodge (both photographed at a photoshoot and, inset, discuss their new project, Noel Coward's Private Lives. We've been friends for donkey's years,' Nigel Havers says, leaning over to pat his old pal Patricia Hodge lightly on the hand. 'Since the seventies,' Patricia, who is well-known for portraying a series of sophisticated, tenacious women, from Margaret Thatcher in The Falklands Play to Miranda's comically demanding mother.'

MARTHISK MARMION: A dog's dinner isn't often a gratifying proposition unless you have four legs and body fur. This enthralling World War II melodrama set in 1940s America is one possible exception, and Patricia Hodge's perceptive savoir faire illuminates it. It starts off with a Noel Coward drawing-room comedy, with Hodge's rich and haughty American matriarch firing off exquisitely turned one-liners. 'I adore snooping,' she says. It's a pleasure in life.' She begins to shape up as a Lady Bracknell from the Second World. However, Lillian Hellman's story soon begins to look more like an Ibsen family tragedy, where long-buried mysteries are likely to be exhumed.

Belle Tout Lighthouse, located in Eastbourne, Sussex, and Fay Weldon's She Devil film, has a colorful past that rivals none of the dramas in which it has appeared. Fay Weldon, the 'Geldon', has a rich past, and current owner David Shaw, who has operated it as a bed-and-breakfast with his wife Barbara for ten years, has been involved in it's history.' 'We're really proud to be a part of it,' a young girl says.' Well, much has changed since the first rudimentary structure was erected at Beachy Head in 1828, but not the treacherous seas swirling underneath.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Fay Weldon's life, as her books, was full of drama - from being a Soho hostess to three unhappy marriages and even rape. Nonetheless, she refused to condemn men and said she was a true feminist. The mistress of the zinging one-liner wrote in bed, my husband and I met in bed. They had sex as strangers at a party and fell in love the next morning, according to her.

Fay Weldon, a writer who has written The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil and Praxis, has died at the age of 91. More than 30 books have been published as well as short stories and plays written for television, radio, and stage, as well as ITV's hit show Upstairs, Downstairs. 'It's with great sadness that we learn of Fay Weldon's (CBE), author, essayist, and playwright,' according to a family's statement. "She died peacefully this morning, January 4, 2023." In a note shared on her website, the writer first told her readers that she had been admitted to hospital with a broken bone in her back and then with a stroke. Weldon, who was born in New Zealand in 1931, was taken up in New Zealand and returned to the United Kingdom as a child. She continued to study economics and psychology at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and then received an honorary doctorate from the University in 1990. Weldon served in London and as a reporter before heading to London to work as an advertisement copywriter. In 1967, she moved to concentrate on her writing and published her first book, The Fat Woman's Joke.

During the heatwave of this summer, the cast of All Creatures Great And Small filmed their Christmas special. In 30°C heat, the cast shot the Christmas scene in the studio in front of a coal fire. The cast members talk about their experience with filming the special episode. Mrs Pumphrey (Patricia Hodge)Eva Feldman (Ella Bernstein) James Herriot (Nicholas Ralph). Inset: River the horse and Siegfried Farnon (Samuel West)

The biggest scene stealer of Creatures Great And Small is its smallest cast member. Derek, the pampered Pekingese who plays Tricki Woo (pictured right), is a hit on television, and he's also fawned over on set, particularly by Patricia Hodge, who took over from late Dame Diana Rigg in the role of Mrs Pumphrey.

On September 15, Creatures Great and Small will return to Channel 5 again. The series is back in a modern twist, with women at the forefront of action. As a studio set, the weekend has been allowed to a former warehouse where James Herriot's fictional veterinary practice Skeldale House was built. Left to Right: - Mrs Hall (Anna Madeley), Siegfried Farnon (Samuel West), James Herriott (Nicholas Ralph), Helen Alderson (played by Rachel Shenton) and Tristan Farnon (Callum Woodhouse)