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There's nothing like a dame - or two - getting bees in their bonnets over life's tiny pleasures

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20071125
Author:Hermione Eyre

Television

Judi Dench and Eileen Atkins head a superb cast in Elizabeth Gaskell's classic portrait of a town on the brink of change

Cranford BBC1

This is Civilisation CHANNEL 4

A classy week on TV, this one. Shall we start with the period drama? Anyone with a frilly-hat intolerance, please rejoin us at paragraph five. For by their bonnets shall you know the ladies of Cranford. Dame Judi has a sweet, dappy straw one; Dame Eileen Atkins's is grey, because she is clever; Imelda Staunton, meanwhile, sports a mob cap and two big frilly bows. How very dare she!

To call Cranford a comedy of ...

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