We’re remembering the magnificent Dame Patricia Routledge, who passed away on Friday 3rd October 2025, with this classic Hyacinth moment from the first ever episode of Keeping Up Appearances! | BBC Comedy Greats

“I get a bit frightened of her myself.” Dame Patricia Routledge, British acting icon whose performances included the formidable Hyacinth Bucket, has died at the age of 96. In 1994 she talked to Alan Titchmarsh in the Pebble Mill studio about her talent for playing strong female characters, including her then-current role as Mrs. Malaprop in Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s play The Rivals. Clip taken from Pebble Mill, originally broadcast on BBC One, 26 May 1994. | BBC Archive