
From starting in folk clubs as a child bride, and then writing & performing at the Octagon theatre in Bolton, the career has always combined singing and acting. From TV programmes and films such as Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Phoenix Nights, Dinnerladies, Alan Bennett films, Brassed Off, My Son The Fanatic & Steve Coogan’s Coogan’s Run, to the many radio plays and programmes presented or guested upon, there has throughout been a steady stream of LPs and CDs - eighteen to date, the early ones all now remastered to CD.

All Creatures Great & Small

Phoenix Nights

Cold Feet

The Royal

Shameless

dinnerladies

Heartbeat

Last of the Summer Wine

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Soul Music

Strangers

Soul Music

Harold Shipman: Doctor Death

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

A Private Function

Rita, Sue and Bob Too

Sunset Across the Bay

Coogan's Run

The Parole Officer

Home from Home

The Insurance Man

My Son the Fanatic

Strumpet

A Day Out

Afternoon Off

Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Speech Day