Ep. 536 - Amanda Barrie - Cleopatra in Carry On Cleo, Alma Baldwin in Coronation Street

My Time Capsule

Cast Off Productions

Comedy, Lee Mack, Interview, Comedy Interviews, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Rob Brydon, Caroline Quentin, Mike Fenton Stevens, David Mitchell, Michael Fenton Stevens, Arabella Weir, Stephen Fry, Ross Noble

4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Amanda Barrie is a British actress who first gained attention in the 1960s with roles in the classic Carry On films, including Carry On Cabby (1963) and Carry On Cleo (1964), where she played Cleopatra. On television, she became a household name as Alma Baldwin in Coronation Street, appearing regularly from the 1980s to 2001. After leaving the soap, she joined the cast of Bad Girls as Bev Tull, adding another memorable role to her career. She has also made guest appearances in shows such as Are You Being Served?, Doctors, and Benidorm .

Amanda Barrie is our guest in episode 536 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .

Amanda Barrie’s autobiography, I'm Still Here: My 90 Years, is available here - https://www.waterstones.com/book/im-still-here/amanda-barrie/9781917439367 .

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Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .

Music by Pass The Peas Music .

Artwork by matthewboxall.com .

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1:10.4	Hello and welcome to my time capsule.
1:14.3	I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule is the podcast where people tell me five things from their life they wish they had in a time capsule.
1:22.5	They pick four things they love and one thing they like to bury and forget.
1:26.6	Now, my guest in this episode makes
1:28.2	this to me a very special episode of my time capsule because it is the great Amanda Barry. Amanda's
1:35.2	rich and varied career started at a very young age. Her first TV appearance was in 1957 and
1:41.3	has included 13 years playing the much-loved character Alma in Coronation Street with over 1,100 episodes,
1:48.9	four years as Bev in Bad Girls, Cleopatra in the iconic Carry-on-Cleo, and most recently
1:55.0	a psychic Sue in Benidorm, as well as loads of TV shows, films and plays in theatres all over the country.
2:02.9	A matter is now 90 and just as much fun and maybe even more daring and outrageous than she's ever been.
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