The desperate attempts to climb the slippery social pole of Hyacinth Bucket will return to the small screen in a one-off prequel to the much-loved sitcom Keeping Up Appearances.

Kerry Howard, star of BBC Three comedy Him & Her, will play the snobbish housewife made famous by Patricia Routledge in the new show.

It will be set in the late 1950s and portray a young Hyacinth desperately encouraging her family to escape their working-class background.

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