Diana Rigg RIP

[LMcD]

At lunchtime, we sought refuge from the doom and gloom of the 1 o'clock news by watching an episode* of The Avengers, which we've always regarded as the epitome of high-class escapism. Now we learn that Diana Rigg has died at rthe age of 82.

*Something Nasty In the Nursery (Season 5)

[Serial_Apologist]

Farewell my favourite Mrs Peel.



She was a feisty woman in real life, too!

[Dave2002]

Sad, and somewhat unexpected. Last night we saw her as Mrs Pumphrey in All Creatures Great and Small - together with Tricki-Woo, and I could barely realise that it was she, but nevertheless she did still look alive, and not likely to go so quickly.

Diana Rigg RIP

[Petrushka]

Another icon of my 1960s childhood gone. Used to love watching The Avengers back in the day.

Diana Rigg read one of the lessons at Sir Georg Solti's memorial service in Westminster Abbey in March 1998 and I was sitting a few feet away.

[LMcD]

Sad, and somewhat unexpected. Last night we saw her as Mrs Pumphrey in All Creatures Great and Small - together with Tricki-Woo, and I could barely realise that it was she, but nevertheless she did still look alive, and not likely to go so quickly.

Diana Rigg RIP

She was diagnosed with cancer in March.

[Dave2002]

She was also Chancellor of Stirling University until 2008.

[cloughie]

Mrs Peel gone - very much a part of my teen years, a superb actress. Like so many great actresses achieved the accolade of appearing on a M&W Christmas show. RIP Diana.

[johncorrigan]

Mrs Peel gone - very much a part of my teen years, a superb actress. Like so many great actresses achieved the accolade of appearing on a M&W Christmas show. RIP Diana.

A woman whom I was just as delighted to see in my middle years and older years as I had been when Mrs Peel entered my teenage life...I never really understood 'The Avengers', but when she was around it didn't matter one jot. And great to see her as Andy's Maw-in-Law in 'Detectorists' in recent times. Rest in Peel!

[Keraulophone]

“Mrs Peel: we’re needed!” - Patrick Macnee (d.2015).

[Bryn]

BBC News's HARDtalk with Dame Dianna Rigg was repeated this morning. A really delightful tribute. Hopefully, it will be available o the iPlayer.

Not on the iPlayer as of 01:15. However, it is on YouTube:

[LMcD]

BBC News's HARDtalk with Dame Dianna Rigg was repeated this morning. A really delightful tribute. Hopefully, it will be available o the iPlayer.

Not on the iPlayer as of 01:15. However, it is on YouTube:

I've just watched this - many thanks for the link. I assume the actor whose name she couldn't recall was Ian Hendry. He played a police surgeon, a role supplanted by Emma Peel (Honor Blackman).

[Bryn]

I've just watched this - many thanks for the link. I assume the actor whose name she couldn't recall was Ian Hendry. He played a police surgeon, a role supplanted by Emma Peel (Honor Blackman).

Turns out that this edition of HARDtalk is on the iPlayer. You just have to dig deep to find it:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07p4sm7/hardtalk-dame-diana-rigg-actress

[burning dog]

RIP

She chose "In a Silent Way" on Desert Island Discs in 1970. A new release in the UK

[LezLee]

Many, many years ago, Dame Diana was appearing at Liverpool's Royal Court Theatre and one morning I saw her sitting on a bench in St John's Gardens, reading a book. At the other end of the bench was one of the regular down'n outs reading the racing in the L'Pool Daily Post. It made a lovely cameo. That's when a mobile would come in handy!