Barbara Flynn
Acting
Barbara Joy Flynn (born 5 August 1948) is an English actress. She first came to prominence playing Freda Ashton in the ITV drama series A Family at War (1970–1972). She went on to play the milk woman in the BBC comedy Open All Hours (1976–1985), Jill Swinburne in The Beiderbecke Trilogy (1985–1988), Dr. Rose Marie in the BBC series A Very Peculiar Practice (1986–1988), Judith Fitzgerald in the ITV drama Cracker (1993–1995), and Mrs. Jamieson in Cranford (2007–2009). In 2021, she appeared in Doctor Who: Flux as Tecteun, a founder of Time Lord society and The Doctor's adopted mother. Starting in 2023, she acted in Beyond Paradise, playing the mother of the detective's girlfriend. This included some episodes in 2024 where she was reunited with Peter Davison, her A Very Peculiar Practice co-star. In her own words, she tends to play "feisty, strong women"
Diana: The Curse of the Spencers
Narrator
1978: The Winter of Discontent
Narrator
The Christmas Candle
Lady Camdon
The Flying Scotsman: A Rail Romance
Narrator (Voice)
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
Aunt Bella
Just Henry
Mrs Beaumont
Burlesque Fairytales
Mrs. Argyle
A Lion Called Christian
Self - Narrator(voice)
The Marchioness Disaster
Eileen Dallaglio
Christmas at the Riviera
Rita
Miss Potter
Helen Potter
Cracker: Nine Eleven
Judith Fitzgerald
The 7/7 Bombers: A Psychological Investigation
Voice
George Orwell: A Life In Pictures
Narrator
Rosalind Franklin: DNA's Dark Lady
Narrator
Hornblower: Duty
Mrs. Mason
Hornblower: Loyalty
Mrs. Mason
Night Flight
Moira
Lorna Doone
Sarah Ridd
The Escort
Kim's Mother
You're Dead...
Prof. Corner
The Man Who Would Be Kubrick
Self - Narrator
King Lear
Goneril
Dear Nobody
Chris' Mother
The Vanishing Man
Me Jeffries
Benefactors
Bosses From Hell
Season's Greetings
Belinda
Day To Remember
Judy
A Mother Like Him
Jill
Britannia Hospital
Private Nurse
No Visible Scar
Margaret Hanson
Standing in for Henry
Heather
Love on a Gunboat
Monica Potter
The Flight Fund
Angie