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Hello, I'm Jonathan Agnew and this is classic

view from the boundary from Test match special. So far in this series you've heard from musicians,

athletes, comedians and actors and it's one of Britain's favourite TV and stage stars

that we're speaking to today. Back in 2000 England ran the midst of a thrilling test against

the Westerners at Lords, again that saw that rarest of things all four innings on a single day.

So with listeners glued to the action from cars, houses and gardens across the country,

we were joined by an icon of British comedy, Dame Penelope Keith. Star as Margo in the

Good Life, Audrey into the Manor Born, Keith as a multi-batter winner and became a Dame

in 2014 for her services both to acting and charity. So here from July 2000 is Dame Penelope

Keith. Was that your first really big break? Yes I suppose so. What I'd done, I'd done

a series before them called Kate which I did up in Yorkshire and leads in natural fact.

I remember last night thinking about coming today that was the very first test match I saw

I think which was early 70s it must have been, no, no, no, no, second one and it was again

West Indies and I went up and there was an act in it called Brown Bad Co and we started

talking about cricket. A lot of actors like cricket. It's very interesting. Apparently so.

Oh yes, yes. And isn't a tool, piece of a tool a great fact. I think he's been on.

Yes, he's been on here. Yes, hasn't he? I mean a lot of actors like cricket,

any high stars talking to him and he said look if we get there in time let's go and see

the last hour at Head English so we tore along from the station to Head English. It was a

beautiful day and I remember we went up and there were people starting to meander out and

we went up to the gate and said you know can we come in and I forget whether it was a tenor

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