Tarka the Otter: His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers is a novel by Henry Williamson. The book narrates the experience of an otter. It was first published in 1927 by G.P. Putnam's Sons, with an introduction by the Hon. Sir John Fortescue, K.C.V.O..

Plot summary[link]

The plot begins with Tarka as a cub growing up in a den with his mother and siblings. As a cub, he learns how to clean himself, swim, and catch fish. When his home is attacked by hunters, he and his family must abandon it to flee from danger. Joining up with another group of otters, the family continue to travel. At some point he loses his family and his mother forgets she even had a cub named Tarka. From now on he must fend for himself. He continues to be persecuted and is constantly on the run from the hunters. In the end, as he is once again being chased by the pack of hounds, his life ends in a heroic death match with the fearsome dog Deadlock, who dies with him.

Awards and nominations[link]

The book won the Hawthornden Prize. It features illustrations by Charles Tunnicliffe.

Audiobook[link]

In 1978 Sir David Attenborough narrated an audiobook version of the story, released as a double audio cassette.^[1]

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations[link]

The novel has been adapted into a film: Tarka the Otter.

In 1974, Williamson began working on a script for a film treatment of the novel, but it was not regarded as suitable to film. Having previously rejected two separate offers from Walt Disney, Henry finally accepted an offer to make the film from noted English wildlife documentary film-maker David Cobham, whom he trusted. The movie, narrated by Peter Ustinov, was released in 1979, with a screenplay by Gerald Durrell.

I could always appreciate the joy and wonder in the countryside so richly expressed in ‘Tarka the Otter’, but I could also see a darkness that was a mystery to me. A brooding presence lies submerged that periodically surfaces in the unfeeling brutality that often occurs throughout the narrative. If Tarka and Deadlock have killed each other the story becomes a classic tragedy, which is highly ambivalent — the eternal struggle perhaps?

This is a tale of ruthless struggle for survival set against the boundless wonder of Creation — a tapestry of light, innocence and graphic purity that is at every juncture, menaced by hidden malice. It is a cathartic celebration of life and nature under, in Henry’s terminology, eternal and ancient sunlight — the very antithesis of the terrible war with which the author was struggling to come to terms. True to nature, it is brutally honest and yet brilliantly metaphorical — there can be little doubt it was fashioned by a master-craftsman.

—Pete Talbot^[2]

Williamson was very ill when filming started and died at the moment the final cathartic scene from the book was being shot at Instow beach in North Devon.^{[citation needed]} One of his sons, Richard, and his daughter-in-law are actually in the film.

It was voted the 98th greatest family film in a Channel 4 poll.

The soundtrack for the film was composed by David Fanshawe and performed by Tommy Reilly.

Musical score[link]

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In 1976 Anthony Phillips, formerly a guitarist with Genesis, and Harry Williamson recorded a soundtrack to the film of Tarka the Otter with the support of David Cobham, the producer. Harry had helped to persuade his father to sign the contract, reassuring him that with the music he had composed, which Henry loved dearly^{[citation needed]}, the film would be true to the book. When the film rushes were shown, however, it became apparent that there had never been any intention to use this orchestral work in the film. In 1987, Amy International paid for the completion of the work at Strawberry Studios and it was released by PRT records as simply Tarka. In 2001 the work was re-released with additional music by Voiceprint Records.^[3] The music has been commissioned for its first live performance with a symphony orchestra in Melbourne in February 2010.

About 'Tarka and me' by Pete Talbot[link]

Pete Talbot, the film's principal animal handler, trained at the Otter Trust under Philip Wayre. In 1976 he was invited by film producers David Cobham and Bill Travers to hand rear a baby otter called Spade for the title role in Tarka the Otter. As his otter grew, Peter took him to live in a water mill in Hampshire - the home of wildlife film makers Ron and Rose Eastman. In time, they gathered a menagerie of five otters, including Spade, along with a tame barn owl, a goose and a German shepherd dog. With others, they became a family traversing Southern England, from Norfolk to The West Country, with their exotic pets. Over two years living and swimming side by side with his otter, Peter encountered a diverse mix of other animals and their keepers.

Notable editions[link]

• 1927, UK, G. P. Putnams Sons, 1927, Hardback
• 1937, UK, Penguin Books, Paperback
• 1962, UK, Revised edition, Puffin Books, Paperback
• 1965, UK, Bodley Head, 1965, Hardback
• 1971, UK, Puffin Books ISBN 0-14-030060-0, January 1971, Paperback (C.F. Tunnicliffe, Illustrator)
• 1981, USA, Nelson Thornes ISBN 0-333-30602-3, March 1981, Hardcover (C.F. Tunnicliffe, Illustrator)
• 1982, USA, Salem House Publishers ISBN 0-370-30919-7, 1982, Paperback
• 1990, USA, Beacon Press ISBN 0-8070-8507-3, 1990, Paperback (Concord Library Series)
• 1995, UK, Puffin Books ISBN 0-14-036621-0, June 1995, Paperback (Annabel Large, Illustrator)

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Tarka the Otter at the Internet Movie Database
• [1] - Peter Talbot's book, animal handler for the film
• Steve Downer - Website of stills photographer for the film

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Anthony Edwin Phillips
Anthony Phillips
Background information
Also known as	Ant The Vicar Vic Stench
Born	(1951-12-23) 23 December 1951 (age 60)
Origin	London, England, UK
Genres	Classical Rock Progressive Rock
Instruments	guitar vocals keyboards bass guitar dulcimer drums percussions
Labels	Virgin Voiceprint Hit & Run Vertigo RCA Arista Passport
Associated acts	Genesis Mike Rutherford Camel
Website	anthonyphillips.co.uk

Anthony Edwin "Ant" Phillips (b. 23 December 1951, Chiswick, west London) is an English multi instrumentalist, best known as a founding member of the band Genesis.^[1] He played guitar and sang backing vocals until leaving in 1970, following the recording of their second album, Trespass. He left due to suffering from stage fright, after being told by his doctor that the best thing would be to leave the band. He is known for his twelve string guitar work, and his influence can be heard throughout Genesis's early output.

Genesis's first album after Phillips's departure, Nursery Cryme, featured two songs which were holdovers from the days when Phillips was in the band: "The Musical Box" (originally called F#) and "The Fountain Of Salmacis".

After leaving Genesis, Phillips studied classical music (especially classical guitar) and made recordings in collaboration with Harry Williamson, Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins, among others.He played the keyboards on the demos for Peter Gabriel in 1976. His first solo album, The Geese and the Ghost, was issued in 1977.

Phillips released his second album, Wise After the Event, in 1978. This was followed the next year by Sides. Both of these albums were produced by Rupert Hine and were intended to reach a mainstream audience, though neither album was successful in that regard.

In its initial release in the UK, Sides was accompanied by a more experimental album entitled Private Parts and Pieces; in the U.S. and Canada the two albums were issued separately. Private Parts and Pieces II: Back to the Pavilion followed the next year, and several further sequels were issued in the 1980s and 1990s.

Phillips began writing material with Andrew Latimer of Camel in 1981, and was a featured performer on that band's album, The Single Factor (released in 1982).

Phillips released a mainstream pop album entitled Invisible Men in 1983. He later claimed that this project went "horribly wrong" as a result of commercial pressures, and would subsequently eschew mainstream success in favour of more specialised material.

Phillips remains involved in a variety of musical projects, including extensive soundtrack work in England often for the label Atmosphere part the Universal Music Group. In the mid-1990s, he released an album entitled The Living Room Concert, which featured solo acoustic versions of his earlier material. He also provided archival material for the first Genesis box set, Genesis Archive 1967-75, released in 1998.

Several of his albums feature artwork by Peter Cross.

Discography[link]

Genesis[link]

Studio

• From Genesis to Revelation (1969)
• Trespass (1970)

Compilations

• Genesis Archive 1967-75 (1998)
• Genesis 1970–1975 (2008)

Solo Albums[link]

Studio

• The Geese and the Ghost (1977)
• Wise After the Event (1978)
• Private Parts and Pieces (1978)
• Sides (1979)
• Private Parts and Pieces II: Back to the Pavilion (1980)
• 1984 (1981)
• Private Parts and Pieces III: Antiques (1982, with Enrique Berro Garcia)
• Invisible Men (1983, with Richard Scott)
• Private Parts and Pieces IV: A Catch at the Tables (1984)
• Private Parts and Pieces V: Twelve (1985)
• Private Parts and Pieces VI: Ivory Moon (1986)
• Private Parts and Pieces VII: Slow Waves, Soft Stars (1987)
• Missing Links Volume One: Finger Painting (1989)
• Slow Dance (1990)
• Private Parts and Pieces VIII: New England (1992)
• Sail the World (1994)
• Missing Links Volume Two: The Sky Road (1994)
• The Living Room Concert (1995)
• Private Parts and Pieces IX: Dragonfly Dreams (1996, with Enrique Berro Garcia)
• Archive Collection I (1998)
• Private Parts and Pieces X: Soirée (1999)
• Radio Clyde (2003)
• Archive Collection Volume II (2004)
• Field Day (2005)
• Missing Links Volume IV: Pathways & Promenades (2009)

Compilations

• Harvest of the Heart (1985)
• Anthology (1995)
• Legend (1997)
• Legend (1999) [Different release from above]
• Soft Vivace (2002)
• All Our Lives (2002)
• Soundscapes (2003)

Collaborations

• Tarka (1988, with Harry Williamson)
• Gypsy Suite (1995, with Harry Williamson)
• Meadows of Englewood (1996, with Guillermo Cazenave)
• Missing Links Volume 3: Time and Tide (1997, with Joji Hirota)
• Live Radio Sessions (1998, with Guillermo Cazenave)
• Wildlife (2008, with Joji Hirota)
• Seventh Heaven (2012, with Andrew Skeet)

Guest appearances

• Intergalactic Touring Band: Intergalactic Touring Band (1977)
• Mike Rutherford: Smallcreep's Day (1980)
• Camel: The Single Factor (1982)
• Iva Twydell: Duel (1982)
• Asha (Denis Quinn): Open Secret (1987)
• Asha (Denis Quinn): Mystic Heart (1989)
• Asha (Denis Quinn): Amadora (1991)
• David Thomas & Ronnie Gunn: The Giants Dance (1996)
• Mother Gong: Battle of the Birds (2004)
• ProgAID: All Around The World (2004)
• Steve Hackett: Out of the Tunnel's Mouth (2009)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Anthony Phillips Official Site

David Arthur Fanshawe (19 April 1942, Devon – 5 July 2010) was an English composer, ethnomusicologist and self-styled explorer.^[1] His work is situated at the crossroads of traditional and modern music. His best-known composition is the 1972 choral work African Sanctus.

Life[link]

Fanshawe was born in Paignton in Devon in 1942. His father was a successful officer in the Royal Artillery who played a central role in the planning of D-Day. His stories of military service in India fired his son's enthusiasm for travel and adventure. David Fanshawe's first ambition was to be an explorer but when he attended St George's School, Windsor Castle and Stowe School he discovered a love of music. However, his severe dyslexia prevented him from reading a musical score and becoming a chorister.^[1]

At Stowe School he spent much of his spare time learning to play the piano, and when he was 17 he was discovered by the mother of a schoolfriend, a French baroness, who tutored him in the piano even after he left the school in 1959. He started his adult career as a musician and film editor for a small production company in Wimbledon in London who made documentary films. In 1965 Fanshawe won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music, where he studied composition under John Lambert. During his holidays he continued to travel widely in Europe and the Middle East. During a summer spent hitchhiking in Afghanistan he heard Islamic music for the first time and was immediately attracted to its beauty. During further travels in Iraq and Bahrain he recorded the traditional music he heard.^[1]

On completing his studies in 1969 Fanshawe travelled up the Nile from the Mediterranean Sea, visiting Egypt, Sudan, Uganda and Kenya over a three year period before finally reaching Lake Victoria. Taking with him a small stereo tape recorder, he would persuade local musicians to play for him.^[1] Returning to the United Kingdom in 1972 with several hundreds of hours of recordings made during his travels, Fanshawe used the material to compose what became his best known work, African Sanctus. After this work he became widely known for the composition of choral works. Besides vocal pieces, he also composed the score for more than 50 films and TV productions, including the BBC's When the Boat Comes In and Softly Softly - Task Force and ITV's Flambards and Rank's Tarka the Otter. His ethnic field recordings have featured in countless TV documentaries, including Musical Mariner and Tropical Beat. They have also been used in various feature films including Mountains of the Moon, How to Make an American Quilt, Gangs of New York and Seven Years in Tibet.^[2][3]

During a ten-year odyssey across the islands of the Pacific Ocean begun in 1978, he collected several thousand hours of indigenous music, and documented the music and oral traditions of Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia in journals and photographs. These form the core of the Fanshawe Collection, an archive of 2,000 hours of world music and 60,000 images. In 2007 a movement based on this material, Pacific Song, was given its premiere at Miami. This was the first completed section of Pacific Odyssey, a new choral work which Fanshawe conceived on an even more epic scale than African Sanctus, but it was not completed by the time of his death.^[1]

Fanshawe was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Music by the University of the West of England in 2007 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to bringing music from around the world into the lives of people who neither read nor write music and to his pursuit of musical excellence.^[4] He was the recipient of a Churchill Fellowship and received a nomination for an Ivor Novello Award for the recording of African Sanctus.^[1]

David Fanshawe married Judith Croasdell Grant in 1971; they had two children together, Alexander and Rebecca. The marriage was dissolved in 1985. He married his second wife Jane in 1985, with whom he had a daughter, Rachel. His younger brother is James, an ex-naval officer.

He lived near Ramsbury in Wiltshire in England, and died on 5 July 2010 from a stroke.^[5]

Works (selection)[link]

• African Sanctus, a work for soprano alto tenor and bass choir, soloists, percussion and tapes
  • from which The Lord's Prayer is also performed separately
• When the Boat Comes In - television score
• Flambards - television score
• The Feathered Serpent - television score
• Dona Nobis Pacem - A Hymn for World Peace
• Dover Castle
• Requiem for the Children of Aberfan
• The Awakening for cello or viola and piano
• Planet Earth - Fanfare and March
• Serenata
• Pacific Song - Chants from the Kingdom of Tonga

References[link]

External links[link]

• David Fanshawe at the Internet Movie Database
• Composer's website
• African Sanctus website
• Biography of Fanshawe
• Official tribute website of David Fanshawe
• Obituary in The Daily Telegraph 14 July 2010
• Obituary in the Wiltshire Gazette and Herald, 15 July 2010

Henry William Williamson (1 December 1895 – 13 August 1977) was an English naturalist, farmer and prolific author known for his natural and social history novels. He won the Hawthornden Prize for literature in 1928 with his book Tarka the Otter.

Biography[link]

Henry Williamson was born in Brockley, southeast London, and attended Colfe's School. The then semi-rural location provided easy access to the Kent countryside, and he developed a deep love of nature throughout his childhood.^[1]

In January 1914 he enlisted in the London Rifle Brigade and, after World War I was declared, he was mobilised on 5 August. He was commissioned into the Machine Gun Corps, was promoted Lieutenant and, from 1917, was attached to the Bedfordshire Regiment. The Christmas truce of 1914 affected him greatly. He became disgusted with the pointlessness of the war and was angry at the greed and bigotry he saw as causing it. He became determined that Germany and Britain should never go to war again.

He told of his war experiences in The Wet Flanders Plain (1929), The Patriot's Progress (1930) and in many of his books in the semi-autobiographical 15-book series A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight (1951-1969).

After the war, he read Richard Jefferies' book The Story of My Heart.^[1] This inspired him to begin writing seriously. In 1921, he moved to Georgeham, Devon, living in a small cottage. He married Ida Loetitia Hibbert in 1925. Together they had six children.

In 1927 Williamson published his most acclaimed book, Tarka the Otter. The book won the Hawthornden Prize. It also sparked a long-running friendship with T. E. Lawrence.

In 1935, Henry Williamson visited the National Socialist Congress at Nuremberg and was greatly impressed, particularly with the Hitler Youth movement, whose healthy outlook on life he compared with the sickly youth of the London slums.^[2][1] He had a "well-known belief that Hitler was essentially a good man who wanted only to build a new and better Germany."^[3] He subsequently joined Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists in 1937.^[4]

In 1936 he bought a farm in Stiffkey, Norfolk. The Story of a Norfolk Farm (1941) is his account of his first years of farming here.

At the start of World War II Williamson was briefly held under Defence Regulation 18B for his political views, but was released after only a weekend in police custody.^[4] Visiting London in January 1944, he observed with satisfaction that the ugliness and immorality represented by its financial and banking sector had been "relieved a little by a catharsis of high explosive" and somewhat "purified by fire." And, "in The Gale of the World, the last book of his Chronicle, published in 1969, Williamson has his main character Phillip Maddison question the moral and legal validity of the Nuremberg Trials".^[1]

After the war the family left the farm. In 1946 Williamson went to live alone at Ox's Cross, Georgeham in North Devon, where he built a small house in which to write. In 1947 Henry and Loetitia divorced. Williamson fell in love with a young teacher, Christine Duffield and they were married in 1949. He began to write his series of fifteen novels collectively known as A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. In 1950, the year his only child by this marriage Harry Williamson was born, he edited a collection of poems and short stories by James Farrar, a promising young poet who had died, at the age of 20, in the Second World War. From 1951-1969 Williamson produced almost one novel a year, while contributing regularly to the Sunday Express and The European, a magazine edited by Diana Mosley. This put great strain on his marriage and, in 1968, he and his wife were divorced after years of separation.

In 1974 he began working on a script for a film treatment of Tarka the Otter. but it was not regarded as suitable to film, being 400,000 words long. Filming went on, unknown to him, and the film, narrated by Peter Ustinov, was released in 1979. On his eightieth birthday he hoped for some honour from the British government. After a general anaesthetic for a minor operation, his health failed catastrophically. One day he was walking and chopping wood, the next day he was unrecognisable and had forgotten who his family were. Suffering from senile dementia, he died on the very day the death of Tarka was being filmed, and was buried in the churchyard of Georgeham. The Henry Williamson Society was founded in 1980.

Bibliography[link]

• The Flax of Dreams - a tetralogy following the life of Willie Maddison
  • The Beautiful Years (1921)
  • Dandelion Days (1922)
  • The Dream of Fair Women (1924)
  • The Pathway (1928)

• A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight - a semi-autobiographical series of 15 books following the life of Phillip Maddison from birth till the early 1950s.
  • The Dark Lantern (1951)
  • Donkey Boy (1952)
  • Young Phillip Maddison (1953)
  • How Dear Is Life (1954)
  • A Fox Under My Cloak (1955)
  • The Golden Virgin (1957)
  • Love and the Loveless (1958)
  • A Test to Destruction (1960)
  • The Innocent Moon (1961)
  • It Was the Nightingale (1962)
  • The Power of the Dead (1963)
  • The Phoenix Generation (1965)
  • A Solitary War (1967)
  • Lucifer Before Sunrise (1967)
  • The Gale of the World (1969)

• Other Works
  • The Lone Swallows (1922)
  • The Peregrine’s Saga, and Other Stories of the Country Green (1923)
  • The Old Stag (1926)
  • Tarka the Otter (1927)
  • The Linhay on the Downs (1929)
  • The Ackymals (1929)
  • The Wet Flanders Plain (1929)
  • The Patriot’s Progress (1930)
  • The Village Book (1930)
  • The Labouring Life (1932)
  • The Wild Red Deer of Exmoor (1931)
  • The Star-born (1933)
  • The Gold Falcon or the Haggard of Love (1933)
  • On Foot in Devon (1933)
  • The Linhay on the Downs and Other Adventures in the Old and New Worlds (1934)
  • Devon Holiday (1935)
  • Salar the Salmon (1935)
  • Goodbye West Country (1937)
  • The Children of Shallowford (1939)
  • The Story of a Norfolk Farm (1941)
  • Genius of Friendship: T.E. Lawrence (1941)
  • As the Sun Shines (1941)
  • The Incoming of Summer (undated)
  • Life in A Devon Village (1945)
  • Tales of a Devon Village (1945)
  • The Sun in the Sands (1945)
  • The Phasian Bird (1948)
  • The Scribbling Lark (1949)
  • Tales of Moorland and Estuary (1953)
  • A Clearwater Stream (1958)
  • In The Woods, a biographical fragment (1960)
  • The Scandaroon (1972)

• Writings published posthumously by the Henry Williamson Society
  • Days of Wonder (1987)
  • From a Country Hilltop (1988)
  • A Breath of Country Air (2 vols, 1990-91)
  • Spring Days in Devon, and other Broadcasts (1992)
  • Pen and Plough: Further Broadcasts (1993)
  • Threnos for T.E. Lawrence and Other Writings (1994)
  • Green Fields and Pavements (1995)
  • The Notebook of a Nature-lover (1996)
  • Words on the West Wind: Selected Essays from The Adelphi (2000)
  • Indian Summer Notebook: A Writer's Miscellany (2001)
  • Heart of England: Contributions to the Evening Standard, 1939-41 (2003)
  • Chronicles of a Norfolk Farmer: Contributions to the Daily Express, 1937-39 (2004)
  • Stumberleap, and other Devon Writings: Contributions to the Daily Express and Sunday Express, 1915-1935 (2005)
  • Atlantic Tales: Contributions to the Atlantic Monthly, 1927-1947 (2007)

Books about Williamson[link]

• Farson, Daniel, Henry: An Appreciation of Henry Williamson. London, Michael Joseph. 1982. ISBN 0-7181-2122-8
• Higginbottom, Melvyn David, Intellectuals and British Fascism: A Study of Henry Williamson. London, Janus Publishing Co. 1992. ISBN 1-85756-085-X
• Lamplugh, Lois, A Shadowed Man: Henry Williamson 1895-1977. 2nd revised ed., Dulverton, Somerset, Exmoor Press, 1991. ISBN 0-900131-70-5
• Matthews, Hugoe, Henry Williamson. A Bibliography. London, Halsgrove. 2004. ISBN 1-84114-364-2
• Murry, John Middleton, ‘The Novels of Henry Williamson’, in Katherine Mansfield, and other Literary Studies. London, Constable. 1959.
• Sewell, Fr. Brocard Henry Williamson: The Man, The Writings: A Symposium. Padstow, Tabb House. 1980. ISBN 0-907018-00-9
• West, Herbert Faulkner, The Dreamer of Dreams: An Essay on Henry Williamson, Ulysses Press, 1932.
• Williamson, Anne, Henry Williamson: Tarka and the Last Romantic, Sutton Publishing (1995) ISBN 0-7509-0639-1. Paperback edition (1997) ISBN 0-7509-1492-0
• Williamson, Anne, A Patriot's Progress: Henry Williamson and the First World War, Sutton Publishing (1998) ISBN 0-7509-1339-8
• Wilson, Peter (ed), T. E. Lawrence. Correspondence with Henry Williamson. Fordingbridge, Hants, Castle Hill Press. 2000. (Volume IX of T. E. Lawrence Letters, edited by Jeremy Wilson)

References[link]

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Liza Goddard (born 20 January 1950) is an English television and stage actress, best known for her work in the 1970s and 1980s.

Early life[link]

Goddard was born in Smethwick, West Midlands, England. She is the daughter of British producer David Goddard and attended Farnham Girls' Grammar School, before he moved the family to Australia when she was 15 upon his appointment as Head of Drama at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Career[link]

Goddard made early television appearances in Australia, including episode 100 of Homicide ("The Traveller", 1966), and the ABC drama play "Romanoff & Juliet" (1967), and a brief (non-speaking, non-credited) appearance in the feature film They're A Weird Mob (1966). However, she is best remembered in Australia for her role as Clarissa "Clancy" Merrick in Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.^[1][2] After returning to the UK in 1969 as an adult, she appeared as Victoria in Take Three Girls (1969),^[2] and then its sequel Take Three Women (1982). She also had a supporting role in the 1972 movie Ooh… You Are Awful. Her career breakthrough was as April in The Brothers (1972–76), which also featured her first husband, Colin Baker. She appeared as Jocelyn in National Pelmet, the Series 2 opener of critically acclaimed drama Minder.

A comedy role alongside Donal Donnelly in Yes, Honestly (1976-77), by Terence Brady and Charlotte Bingham followed, as did a role, with Christopher Biggins, in an unsuccessful BBC1 sitcom Watch This Space (1980), by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe. This was followed by Pig in the Middle (1980-83) with Joanna Van Gyseghem. Goddard was one of the 'explorers' who were evaporated in a (now missing) episode of the BBC science fiction quiz programme The Adventure Game (1980), played a space pirate in the Doctor Who story Terminus (1983), and appeared in Roll Over Beethoven (1985). Goddard appeared in Woof!, a Children's ITV programme first broadcast in 1989. This long-running series told the adventures of a schoolboy who turned into a dog at any given time; his efforts to conceal his secret from his parents were aided by his teacher Mrs Jessop, played by Goddard. Her third husband, producer and director David Cobham, created this series. She had earlier appeared in the TV adaptation of Brendon Chase, also produced and directed by Cobham.

For many years, she was also the female team leader on long-running quiz/panel show Give Us A Clue, replacing Una Stubbs in the role.

She appeared as Laurel Manasotti, who had an affair with Jimmy Mulville's character Donald, in the ITV sitcom That's Love.

She later had a recurring role as Philippa Vale in Bergerac and alongside Dawn French and Catherine Tate in Wild West (2002). In 2007 she appeared in the Midsomer Murders episode "A Picture of Innocence", reuniting her with Bergerac star John Nettles.

She was the president of the Hawk and Owl Trust from 2001 to 2010,^[3] and her husband David Cobham was vice-president.^[4]

Personal life[link]

• Goddard was first married to former Doctor Who actor Colin Baker (who played the Sixth Doctor), and then to 1970s pop star Alvin Stardust; she is now married to producer and director David Cobham.
• Goddard lives near Dereham^[5] in Norfolk, with her husband and a home full of rescued animals. Goddard also works with the RSPCA amongst other charities.
• She suffered and recovered from breast cancer in 1997.^[6]
• Her first child, Thom Goddard, is a film and television producer. He owns All Star Media International and All Star Films and lives in London.
• Her second child, Sophie Jewry, runs a graphic design and printing business and lives in Norfolk.

References[link]