Lynda Baron, who has died aged 82, was well known to television viewers spanning the generations, but her comforting presence in comedy and children’s fare belied the fact that in reality she was a multi-talented grafter who excelled in every discipline.
Between 1976 and 1985 Baron played the formidable Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in Roy Clarke’s popular sitcom Open All Hours, continually spurning the nuptial ambitions of the tightfisted shopkeeper Arkwright (Ronnie Barker), with whom she enjoyed a comically fractious relationship.
