Article On Hattie

Ruth said: “Hattie Jacques is one of my comedy heroines and I’m thrilled to have been asked to play her. She was an incredibly talented and fascinating woman, both on and off screen, and so much more than just the ‘funny fat lady’. I can’t wait.”

Cold Feet star Robert Bathurst plays Le Mesurier with Being Human star Aidan Turner as her youthful lover John Schofield.

The film is part of BBC Four’s autumn season, which also includes a film tribute by Billy Connolly to one of Scotland’s greatest poets Norman MacCaig, who died in 1996.

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