Brigit Forsyth is an actress who’s best known for playing Thelma Ferris in the classic BBC comedy Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads and Helen Yeldham in the ITV drama Boon. Since December 2013, Forsyth has appeared in the BBC comedy Still Open All Hours. Her other TV work includes The Glamour Girls, Tom, Dick and Harriet, Doctor Who, Wycliffe, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Jackanory, Murder Most Horrid and Playing the Field. Her stage work includes Calendar Girls and the Alan Bennett plays People and Single Spies. In 2002, Brigit was the subject of This Is Your Life when she was surprised by Michael Aspel at BBC Broadcasting House. Brigit Forsyth is guest number 183 on 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 .

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