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| | MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | 'In the early days all I ever got were crying scenes' |
 | | To be fair, you're unlikely to catch Fowler wearing a fur coat, smoking through a cigarette-holder or giggling "I regard champagne as a necessity, not a luxury"; but even the once-drab housewife has moved on from cardigan couture ("She's even wearing eyeshadow now," points out Richard). |
 | | She feels too loyal to Fowler - "she's all I've thought about for a third of my life and I'm very fond of her" - and she cares, too, about the programme's educational function. |
 | | The only thing she wishes for at the moment is a dog, to fill the absence left by the death of her Cairn Terrier Shirley Brahms II (Shirley certainly isn't forgotten; she's cast in bronze at the top of the staircase). |
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