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Few radio memories come as misty-eyed as this: no other signature tune evokes the warmth and tenderness of childhood security as powerfully as the Berceuse from Faure's Dolly Suite. She continued to make cameo appearances throughout the 1980s and 1990s in television series such as The Bill, Brookside and Casualty. Between 1960 and 1963 she played Esther Hayes, making her debut in episode two.
Daphne Oxenford’s feature film credits included parts in Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969), That’ll Be The Day (1973), and as Mrs Pumphrey in All Creatures Great And Small (1974).
But Daphne Oxenford also appeared on television – notably in early episodes of Coronation Street.
Daphne Oxenford Adaptable actress on stage, radio and television who provided the welcoming voice on Listen with Mother Thursday January 03 2013, 12.01am , The Times From school she trained at the Embassy School of Acting in Swiss Cottage, later the Central School of Speech and Drama, under Sybil Thorndike’s sister Eileen. with Ann Driver, George Dixon, Daphne Oxenford, Dorothy Smith, Eileen Browne (left), Catherine Edwards and Julia Lang (right).
Later in 1945 she appeared with Sonnie Hale and Nellie Wallace in the revue That’ll Be The Day. “Few radio memories come as misty-eyed as this,” noted the radio historian Paul Donovan.
Daphne Oxenford, who has died aged 93, was the voice of children's stories on Listen With Mother, BBC Radio's 1.45pm weekday programme, always preceding Woman's Hour, from 1950 to 1971. Her last London appearance was as Pauline Collins's mother in Simon Callow's touching production of Sharman Macdonald's Shades at the Albery (now the Noël Coward) in 1992, but she continued working on radio and television until recently, appearing in Heartbeat in 2005 as a frail centenarian who discovers that she is really only 99.When David died in 2003 – the couple had moved south to Epping Green in Essex, to be near their elder daughter's family – she settled into the actors' home, Denville Hall, in Northwood, Middlesex.
From 1956 Daphne Oxenford made regular television appearances with her friend Joyce Grenfell in the comedienne’s sketch show Joyce Grenfell Requests The Pleasure.
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There were other presenters of the programme – Julia Lang, Dorothy Smith and Eileen Browne (who sang the nursery rhymes with George Dixon) – but the euphony of Daphne Oxenford's name, and her mellow, flawless vocal delivery made her the main attraction.She commuted to London from Manchester to record the programmes on two or three days each week. Otherwise, she raised two daughters while appearing regularly in the theatre and on television – from the second episode of Coronation Street in 1960, she was Esther Hayes, the helpful spinster at number five who looked after her ailing mother and had a criminal brother. Daphne Margaret du Grivel Oxenford (31 October 1919 – 21 December 2012) was an English actress, known for her early stage roles, and later her radio and television work. of the arts The daughter of an accountant, Daphne Margaret du Grivel Oxenford was born on October 31 1919 at Barnet, north London. She was the mother in John Mortimer’s autobiographical A Voyage Round My Father (1969), and throughout the 1970s and 1980s appeared in numerous comedy series with Jimmy Tarbuck, Les Dawson and Dick Emery, dramas in the Play For Today slot and popular sitcoms including Some Mothers Do Have 'Em, Rising Damp and Man About The House.
Radio presenter and actress Daphne Oxenford, known to a generation as the voice of the children's radio show 'Listen with Mother', has died at the age of 93 When it stops, Daphne Oxenford will be here to speak to you.” “The music” — the Berceuse from Faure’s Dolly Suite — was the signal for an audience of pre-school children across the country to settle down.
However she was told that American audiences needed to comprehend the dialogue.
After her husband’s death in 2003 she moved to the actors’ retirement home at Denville Hall, Northwood, from where she continued to do occasional television jobs, taking roles in The Royal (2003), Midsomer Murders (2004), Heartbeat (2004-05), and Doctor Who (2008). for schools radio in 1947, followed in 1949 by her television debut in Oranges and Lemons, a show in which she had worked at the Lyric (Hammersmith) and Globe Theatres.
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She also appeared in a television adaptation of Tuppence Coloured, the stage revue in which she had worked with Joyce Grenfell and Max Adrian at the Lyric and Globe in 1947.