Daphne Margaret du Grivel Oxenford was an English actress, known for her early stage roles, and later her radio and television work. She was the voice ("Are you sitting comfortably ...?") of BBC radio's Listen with Mother from its inception in 1950 to 1971. As spinster Esther Hayes, she was part of the original cast of Coronation Street.
Sweet William
(Mrs. Walton)
The Reluctant Dragon
(Mother (voice))
Dawson's Electric Cinema
Jimmy Somerville: The Video Collection 1984/1990 (Featuring Bronski Beat and The Communards)
(Self (segment "Smalltown Boy"))
The Blacktoft Diaries: True or False?
(Miss Garton)
Who Pays?
(Sheila Bannister)
The Waiting Game
(Miss Bannister)
Girl from the South
(Grandmother)
Doctor Who: Dragonfire
(Archivist)
That'll Be The Day
(Mrs Sutcliffe)
Prince William
(Queen Mother)
Jingle Bells
(Mrs. Johnson)
All Creatures Great and Small
(Mrs. Pumphrey)
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Very Models
(Narrator (voice))
Fothergill
(Invalid Lady)
Beloved
(Ellen)
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
(Lady In Garden (uncredited))
Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 2
(Girl Hedgehog (voice))
More Children's Summer Stories
(Fieldmice (voice))
The Wind in the Willows
(Girl Rabbit (voice))
To the Manor Born
(Mrs. Polouvicka)
Doctor Who
(Archivist)
The Sweeney
(Mrs. Rosier)
Shadows of Fear
(Mrs. Tindall)
Fresh Fields
(Miss Denham)
How to be a Little Sod
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
(Mrs. Willoughby)
Crown Court
(Gladys Kiteley)
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
(Mayoress)
Casualty
(Mrs. Johnson)
The Royal
(Mrs. Silverwood)
(All Quiet on the) Preston Front
(Customer)
Heartbeat
(Enid Bakewell)
Legends
(Self)
Rising Damp
(Announcer)
The House of Eliott
(Mrs Dodds)
Midsomer Murders
(Muriel)
EastEnders
(Alice Dutton)
To the Manor Born
(Mrs. Patterson)
Victorian Scandals
(Ellen)
Never the Twain
(Mrs Scott)
That's My Boy
(TV Voice (voice))
The Odd Man
(Woman (voice))
Man About the House
(Mrs Plummer)