The Margo Leadbetter Community's Journal (original) (raw)

Hi, I'm poshfrock

I too am a fan of Margo. I have been since I first saw The Good Life back in the 1970s when I was a child! I always wondered if others admired her character as much as I did. I just read an online interview with Penelope Keith and she thinks that we shouldn't intellectualise the character (Margo) as she really was just a part that Penelope played?? I felt a bit sad about that because I would have loved to know more about Margo - what made her tick?

I am currently watching the DVDs and loving every moment. I also have a book titled 'A Celebration of the Good Life' by Richard Webber which I occasionally read and of course my favourite chapter is the one about Penelope Keith and Margo....here are a couple of quotes from that book:

from Julian Mitchell, Radio Times, 1977:

"...as viewers, we don't just laugh at Margo and her pretensions, we admire her - and more deeply than perhaps we know".

and from the writer, Bob Larbey:

"On the surface there were so many things about Margo not to like. She was a huge snob, ultra-fastidious, quick-tempered and politically just to the left of Adolf Hitler. But we wanted her to be liked in spite of all this. So we inserted vulnerability, and how well Penny portrayed it. Beneath Margo's iron facade was a woman who was a loyal, if critical, friend, and one who was painfully aware that she was the butt of many jokes that she didn't even understand!"