Daphne Oxenford

Daphne Margaret du Grivel Oxenford

Among her most high-profile roles was the voice – "Are you sitting comfortably ...?" – for BBC radio's Listen with Mother from 1950 to 1971; she was also a reader on the newspaper review programme What the Papers Say for more than thirty years. One of the original cast members of Coronation Street, she played Esther Hayes from 1960 to 1963, 1971 and 1972. She played Mrs Patterson, the owner of the village shop, in the popular sitcom To the Manor Born. In the seventies and early eighties, she was part of Listen to Les The Les Dawson Radio Show on Radio 2, and performed in The Clitheroe Kid radio comedy series from time to time. She played Chrissy's mother in three episodes of Man About the House- Series 4 - Episode 5 (1973–76).

Other TV credits include:

Oxenford lived at The Close off Wainwright Road, Altrincham, for 50 years. She was married to David Marshall from 1951 until his death in February 2003. They had two daughters, one of whom, Sophie Marshall, was a former casting director at the Royal Exchange Theatre. Following the death of her husband, she lived at Denville Hall, where she died on 21 December 2012, aged 93.^[4][1][5]

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