Ten years after they first bared all, six of the original Calendar Girls have stripped off again.
The latest calendar features Angela Baker, Tricia Stewart, Ros Fawcett, Lynda Logan, Beryl Bamforth and Christine Clancy and is to be launched in Leeds next month.
The women have revisited the same subject matter as the original calendar, published in 1999, focussing on the work of the Women’s Institute.
They are hoping to capitalise on the success of the West End play which is running at the Noel Coward theatre for the next three months.
Theatre-goers will have a chance to buy a copy of the 2009 calendar and add to the £3million fund already raised by the women for leukaemia research.
Television viewers will be able to follow the development of the latest calendar in a BBC1 documentary on Wednesday at 10.45pm narrated by Patricia Hodge, who plays Angela in the stage play.
The original calendar was inspired by Angela Baker’s late husband John – she has since re-married – who died of non-Hodgkins Lymphoma aged 54, in 1998.
Originally aimed at local sales, it eventually went global and was later made into a blockbusting movie starring Helen Miren and Julie Walters.
In the documentary Angela Baker talks candidly on film about her grief.
She said: “It wasn’t 11 women having a good time, taking their clothes off. We did it in memory of John and to raise money for Leukaemia Research – and that’s what we have not got to forget.”
Comments: Our rules
We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused.
Please report any comments that break our rules.
Read the rules hereLast Updated:
Report this comment Cancel