The actress Dame Patricia Routledge, best known for TV show Keeping Up Appearances, has died aged 96. She played the snobbish social climber Hyacinth Bucket who frequently corrected how her name was pronounced. #PatriciaRoutledge #BritishTV #UK #News #Channel4News | Channel 4 News

“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