Clarissa Dickson Wright & Jennifer Paterson
Two large characters and a beautiful motorbike
On the day I posted my last blog the death of Clarissa Dickson Wright was announced. She died aged 66 on the 15th March in Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary. A former barrister (the youngest person to be called to the bar at the time), a business women, a cook-housekeeper, a writer, an accredited cricket umpire and not least a larger than life television celebrity. She is probably best remembered as the less zany of the Two Fat Ladies.
Around 1994 a British television producer by the name of Patricia Llewellyn brought together Clarissa Dickson Wright and, arguably, the even more eccentric Jennifer Paterson to make a pilot programme. The pilot resulted in the BBC commissioning the first of three series of Two Fat Ladies. Sadly Jennifer Paterson died on the 10th August 1999, halfway through the filming of a fourth series.
Two Fat Ladies was, and still is, compulsive viewing but it shouldn't be...
