HIGNFY - Sheila Hancock

I missed the programme, but while I admire Sheila Hancock as an actress and personality I do not share her views about politics.

Same here easybee
I saw Sheila Hancock being interviewed by Jenni Murray years ago in a Manchester theatre. She was very entertaining but of a very leftish persuasion and so I can completely understand why her views would chime with some on here!

I like her. She is good actress and her political views don't matter. She is doing well at 94.

I found her very irritating on HIGNFY last night. I felt the others were just being polite and she was allowed to go on too long. I actually felt like switching off.

Aveline

I found her very irritating on HIGNFY last night. I felt the others were just being polite and she was allowed to go on too long. I actually felt like switching off.

The programme is edited so blame the editor

I do. Plus the MC deferring to her old age too much.

As an entertainer (very amusing she can be too) she does tend to bang on a bit reminding her audience of her lefty views. It did get a tad wearisome after paying good money to be given a party political broadcast although my companion (very left viewpoint too!) lapped it up and clapped enthusiastically many times …. 😁

I’m with you Aveline, I thought they patronised her instead of challenging her very leftist views.

I thought she had died years ago as I haven’t heard anything about her for ages.
I just never really liked what I read about her, mostly her own words, and truly can’t remember her acting.

I thought she was brilliant, such good light relief after such a depressing day!

I love Sheila Hancock and think she has a wonderful presence about her.
Probably stems from remembering, as a small child, my mum laughing her head off at The Rag Trade, which Sheila was in. A happy memory for me. She looks amazing for 94!!

I thought she was funny and entertaining.

I find her irritating.

I found her very funny

I love her, she’s a great actress, didn’t watch HIGNFY yet.

Cold

I found her very funny

It didn't record Friday as it was on BBC2, but I caught the repeat on Monday. I thought Sheila was wonderful. And I thought the others were in awe.
She's been acting on TV pretty much annually for the last 50 years!
I loved her in the Rag Trade, but she was brilliant in The BedSit Girl mid-60s

I haven't watched it yet, but as in the thread on Joan Collins, I am so pleased to see much older women ( and men) still strutting their stuff, whatever that might be.

It is interesting how people interpret what they see and hear so differently.

Far from patronising Sheila, I was impressed that they were so sparky with her and did not patronise her.

She has compassion and a sense of community. If that makes her a lefty then that is fine. These are qualities that it would be good to see in people of any political persuasion but sadly every man/woman for him/her self seems to be the order if the day.

She has seen the misery that populist brings ... we need to heed her warning.

Aveline

I found her very irritating on HIGNFY last night. I felt the others were just being polite and she was allowed to go on too long. I actually felt like switching off.

I have always found her irritating, not her political views but she’s very pushy on any views when being herself rather than her acting.A sort of ‘shut up, I’m here’ and sees everything in black and white.
As an actress she’s really good.

Usedtobeblonde

I thought she had died years ago as I haven’t heard anything about her for ages.
I just never really liked what I read about her, mostly her own words, and truly can’t remember her acting.

@#£%&

Very much alive and present in the media !!

Not having been in the UK for several decades now and so not having access to British TV, but to radio, I have only become aware of her in the past 20 or so years as she is frequently on Just a minute. I also enjoy listening to the Rosebud podcast which featured her in November 2023. I enjoyed Have I Got News For You this week, which I can get on YouTube and I thought she held her own well. So many people of that age stop taking an interest in the outside world.

I went right off her when in an interview when the Tower of London 'poppies' were installed she thought they should drive a tank over them and destroy them rather than dismantle and take some around the country. It was pointed out that a portion of them had been pre-sold to ordinary people who would receive them when the display was dismantled. Her response was 'so what, just drive the tank over them?'
I was one of those who had paid to receive a touching beautiful tribute to a fallen soldier, mine in respect of a family member who fell on the first day at The Battle of the Somme, leaving a widow with three young children. I found her attitude extremely dismissive. Shame as previously I'd paid to see Sister Act when she was playing Mother Superior because I liked her.

I did think they deferred to her on HIGNFY and it was strange when towards the beginning she made a comment that didn't really fit with a satirical entertainment program, one that is not deadly serious.

I agree, they were just being polite on HIGNFY. I found it irritating and embarrassing.

Franbern

What a wonderful lady. Watching her on HIGNFY last night so cheered me up. At the age of 94 years she has more intelligence, good humour and a care for the world than most politicians. I actually found myself clapping my hands when what she had written in her book many years ago about Donald Trump was quoted.
We need to heed her warnings that populist voting could lead to a British version of what happened in Germany in the 1930's

I AGREE …thought she spoke her mind, as we elders tend to to do after a certain age… and I praised her for it!
I don’t know that being ‘very left’ is bad, it shows we’re human!
Unlike the corrupt REFORM …. We will rue the day if the current load of hypocrites actually ever get to govern! There may of course be the odd good un’ amongst the local MPs just in, but if they are all Racist like most of them , I fear for our country. Yes immigration needs a restructure, the NHS also needs a lot of help, etc etc, but perhaps we should give the current group a little more time… they are attempting to right the wrongs of decades of various leaders …do we want to be known as the country that changes political leadership every year?…or less?