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From Rome to I, Claudius and beyond, here's where else to scratch your Cleopatra itch.

Character actor who appeared on the West End stage and in TV shows including I, Claudius, Coronation Street and Hazell

Founder director of the Hampstead theatre club who brought landmark productions to the London stage

From calls to scrap the licence fee to job cuts, the Corporation is facing some of the toughest challenges in its history

Last modified on Mon 15 Mar 2021 14.22 EDT Betty Willingale, who has died aged 93, was one of the pioneers of British television drama. As a BBC script editor from the 1960s onwards she brought the works of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Emily Brontë, Alexandre Dumas, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Emile Zola and DH Lawrence to small-screen serials. Later, as a producer, she had success in turning modern literature into popular television with the BBC’s big-budget Fortunes of War (1987), Alan Plater’s adaptation of Olivia Manning’s novels, starring Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson as newlyweds ca...