Fear of Fanny - BBC 2006

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  @sphinxtheeminx · 3 years ago (edited)

  Growing up in the 1960s, my mother viewed Joan Crawford and Fanny Cradock - and weirdly, Mrs Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor - as the epitome of the divine feminine. Fortunately, the NHS introduced psychotherapy into its arsenal of mental health services in the 1970s, and so I'm almost over it.

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• DE

  @dementednun1175 · 2 years ago

  For a second I tought it was a documentary and I was like wow she is pretty and looks like Julia Davis haha

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• LA

  @laurallama73 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Benny Hill doing a parody of Fanny and her husband was hilarious, as was hubs enjoying it. Her dear partner really had the patience of Job.

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• VI

  @victorymansions · 2 years ago

  You have to accept how bizarre life is in order to take it seriously.

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• JA

  @jakecavendish3470 · 2 years ago (edited)

  The erratic behaviour is spot-on; my grandmother knew her and said she was a raging alcoholic and what would now probably be diagnosed as deeply bioplar or schizophrenic, which is pretty sad really. She once found her wandering around the street with no shoes on in the early 1970s going on about how German spies were living in the church hall.

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• LE

  @leslees966 · 9 months ago

  She was actually a very good cook, i hate the fact that most people view her meals with disdain now.

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• TE

  @teabagmcpick889 · 2 years ago

  I was really hoping that Johnny's "And may all your doughnuts turn out like Fanny's" would pop up somewhere.

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• FL

  @flashtheoriginal · 2 years ago

  A spellbinding piece of television.  Bravo

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• NE

  @neilcunninghammedia · 2 years ago

  So much work has gone into this ravishing production but the sound of Fanny's voice is so painfully absent.

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• BA

  @barrycarrigan5584 · 2 years ago

  The genius of Julia Davis and Mark Gatiss is intoxicating , just watched this for the second time, probably not the last.

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• FR

  @FrankNFurter1000 · 3 years ago

  You are a GEM for uploading this in higher quality.

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• PO

  @Polynomial1111 · 2 years ago

  I thought that was an amazing production the like of which we've lost so much of.

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