{"id":774852,"date":"2026-07-02T18:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/774852\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T18:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:49:12","slug":"bbc-schedules-special-penelope-keith-night-to-celebrate-tv-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/774852\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC schedules special Penelope Keith night to celebrate TV legend"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BBC has scheduled a special night of programming to celebrating Dame Penelope Keith’s life and career following the star\u2019s death<\/a> at the age of 86.<\/p>\n

Keith \u2013 best known for starring in sitcoms To the Manor Born and The Good Life \u2013 passed away \u201cpeacefully\u201d at her Surrey home, her family announced this week.<\/p>\n

Now, Penelope Keith Remembers… To the Manor Born, which first aired back in 2024, will be broadcast again on Tuesday 14 July at 8pm on BBC Four.<\/p>\n

The 14-minute documentary sees the late star reflect on her role as the upper-class Audrey fforbes-Hamilton in To the Manor Born. <\/p>\n

The actress also tells the story of the comedy\u2019s beginnings and recalls what it was like to work with fellow cast members Angela Thorne and Peter Bowles.<\/p>\n

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Penelope Keith as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton in To the Manor Born.\u00a0BBC<\/p>\n

A classic episode of To the Manor Born will then be shown at 8:15pm, followed by an instalment of The Good Life at 8:45pm.<\/p>\n

Hay Fever, a television adaptation of No\u00ebl Coward’s play of the same name which stars Keith as retired actress Judith Bliss, will then air on the channel at 9:15pm.<\/p>\n

Announcing the news of her death, Keith’s family wrote in a statement: “We are deeply saddened to announce that Dame Penelope Keith died peacefully whilst living with cancer at her home in Surrey where she had lived for more than 50 years.<\/p>\n

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“The family is grateful for the care and support she received throughout her treatments, and ask that their privacy be respected at this time.”<\/p>\n

As well as the beloved ’70s and ’80s sitcoms, Keith was also known to audiences for starring in the comedies like Sweet Sixteen, No Job for a Lady and Next of Kin.<\/p>\n

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Penelope Keith Remembers… To the Manor Born airs at 8pm on Tuesday 14 July on BBC Four and iPlayer.<\/p>\n

Check out more of our Documentaries<\/a> coverage or visit our TV Guide<\/a> and Streaming Guide<\/a> to find out what’s on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BBC has scheduled a special night of programming to celebrating Dame Penelope Keith’s life and career following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-774852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}