![]() The credit for putting together the effervescent, hard-drinking Paterson, already 68 years old, together with the younger but even broader reformed alcoholic and former barrister Clarissa Dickson Wright must go to the television producer Patricia Llewellyn. ![]() Occasional tension between the talkative pair and unfounded rumours of off-stage disharmony added an extra frisson. Precise quantities were often replaced by a phrase like "generous slurp" and words like "ravishing", "heavenly" and "delectable" flew about in the charmingly obscure locations where they were seen slaving over a hot stove. In lively but not always good-tempered on-screen exchanges, there were passing swipes at the "disgrace" of supermarket fish, "revolting" public house scotch eggs and other modern horrors. ![]() Perhaps, above all, it was the posh and privileged voices of the two ladies, never mind their generous figures, that created such a stir. ![]()
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