"In the 70s I wrote radio plays. Prunella Scales was in one of them. During a break I was doing a crossword and getting stuck. She sat down next to me and had a look at the mess I was making. Silly boy! she said (I was perhaps 30 at the time). It's surprise', not suprise'! and we soon finished it off."
"When I was about 12, a pupil at Nonsuch high school in Ewell, my art teacher entered a piece of my work into an art competition. The brief was to design a Christmas card. My entry was a painting of Mary on a donkey with Joseph in an American-style cityscape, like the Sunset Strip, with city lights and signs around them."
Multiple personal recollections portray Prunella Scales as warm, witty, and generous in both casual and public encounters. She offered a helpful, humorous correction to a crossword while on a break during radio play rehearsals. She privately praised a young artist’s unconventional nativity painting while presenting competition awards, boosting that pupil’s confidence and career path. Television viewers celebrated her memorable laugh and comic timing on Fawlty Towers. Audiobook listeners valued her skillful accents and vocal characterizations, which brought characters vividly to life. Her chemistry with comedic partners is noted as central to her success.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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