Legacy of laughter

Brilliant comedy actress & singer who played snob Hyacinth Bucket dies at age of 96

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She wants to do. She's a wonderfully optimistic character.

Richard, ran from 1990 to 1995.

Dame Patricia said of Hyacinth, who insisted her surname was “bouquet”, rather than “bucket”: “She's a monster and I enjoyed playing her enormously.”

She said of her character in Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, which aired from 1996 to 1998: “Hetty is a little lady from a terraced house in the North West.