Patricia Routledge Archives

How Maxine Peake Improved Patricia Routledge's Talking Heads
The first monologue that inspired the others, A Woman Of No Importance with Patricia Routledge, was broadcast in 1982 This joined six others, performed and broadcast in 1988, the second set in 1998. In lockdown rules, the BBC recently remade ten of the original twelve – two called for an older woman, initially played by the[...]