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In an age of instant celebrity, what does it take to maintain a long career in entertainment?

June Whitfield was one of our best-known faces and most widely loved stars.

In the first of two parts, Joanna Lumley visits June at home in Wimbledon to re-live some of her finest comedy moments.

She also explores how the entertainment industry has changed – most notably the expanded roles for women as performers, writers and producers – during her remarkable career.

Radio has been vital to June’s success, but it was TV that brought her to the hearts of millions.

Joanna looks back and listens to June's first footsteps on the path to fame - at first on radio in Take It From Here, then alongside almost every big name comic of the 50s, 60s and 70s, until Terry and June put her name in the title of that most successful of sitcoms.

Joanna Lumley, a co-star with June in Absolutely Fabulous, listens back to some selected gems from the archives and discusses the highs and lows of her time in the entertainment business.

Producer: Steve Doherty

A Giddy Goat production for Â鶹Éç Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2015.