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Dawn French revives the amiable nonsense that graced our screens between 1994 and 2007 – but it’s just not the same without all the dearly departed eccentrics
The last time I saw the Vicar of Dibley, she was flying over Oxfordshire in her pyjamas. The Rev Geraldine Granger (Dawn French) had just got married to Gorgeous Harry (Richard Armitage) in a church wedding officiated by Jeremy Ogilvy (Hugh Bonneville). Her best mate, Alice, who organised the wedding, was dressed as the 10th Doctor and there were Daleks among the wedding guests. Themed weddings are always wrong? Discuss.
It was nonsense, but, in the Vicar of Dibley’s defence, there often comes a moment with British national treasures after which nobody really remembers how these jokers became such fixtures in our lives, still less why they think they can go out dressed like that. Joanna Lumley, Elton John and the House of Lords are cases in point. Continue reading...