 Semi-regulars in the show included Jim Broadbent, who'd previously appeared with Wood in the London staging of her play "Talent".He appeared in such parts as a sleazy press photographer and a telephone deodorising engineer.Lill Roughley, who Wood first spotted when she worked with her then husband Geoffrey Durham in 1977, was given various roles, such as impersonating "Coronation Street"'s Minnie Caldwell.