Waiting for God

Uh, she was in a TV show called "Open All Hours." She played, uh, a widow in that, and then she played, uh...

I think she was a widow in "Waiting for God" as well, which was like, it was set in a retirement home in somewhere in like, uh, somewhere in the UK, and she was like this grumpy old battle-ax, and she'd wave a stick at people and stuff, and she was just dry, absolutely dry as fuck with her comedy and that.

Um, she's passed away at the age of 84.

I don't know what else she's been in, to be honest.

She was in Open All Hours where she played Mrs Featherstone.

Waiting for God.

Famous,

famous.

Or was it just that we found the Corrie ones and other people got the, you know...

Quite possibly, quite possibly.

The Waiting for God ones.

Yeah, as I say, she had the Waiting for God.

Episode 378 of the PJ Archive is a phone interview I did with the very popular English actress Stephanie Although also successful in films, on stage and on the radio, Stephanie is best remembered from her many high-profile roles in television series such as Tenco, Open All Hours, A Bit of Ado, Waiting for God, Doc Martin, Coronation Street and Man Down.

Stephanie died in 2026 at the age of 84 from complications of Alzheimer's disease.

This interview took place in 2021 when Stephanie was promoting a play called A Cold Supper Behind

Of course, because, you know, what you do, if it's good, then, of course, it increases.

But, yes.

And in Waiting for God, as with Open All Hours, you played a character older than you actually were.

How did you feel about that?

To be honest, I didn't give it much thought, you know, because I felt that Graham and I got on very well together, and I thought that it would work, and it did work.