Editing Helen Atkinson-Wood (section)

==Career==
Atkinson-Wood was a regular presenter of [[ITV Central|Central Television]]'s short-lived ''[[O.T.T. (television series)|O.T.T.]]'' and had a small role in the 1984 ''[[The Young Ones (TV series)|Young Ones]]'' episode "Nasty".<ref>{{IMDb name|id=0040814|name=Helen Atkinson-Wood}}</ref> She appeared as [[Mrs Miggins]] in ''[[Blackadder the Third]]''.{{hsp}}<ref>{{cite news|first=Steven|last=Russell|title=A trip back to Mrs Miggins' pie shop|url=https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21927185.trip-back-mrs-miggins-pie-shop/|agency=Ipswich Star|date=7 October 2008|access-date=27 November 2022}}</ref>

She was the only regular female cast member on the radio comedy programme ''[[Radio Active (radio series)|Radio Active]]'', where she played Anna Daptor and other roles, and also participated in the programme's televisual equivalent, ''[[KYTV (TV series)|KYTV]]''. She also appeared in the final episode of ''[[Joking Apart]]'' as a morning television presenter. In 2007, she guest-starred in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' audio play ''[[I.D. (Doctor Who audio)|I.D.]]''. She played the role of [[Sam Vimes#Lady Sybil|Sybil Ramkin]] in a BBC radio adaptation of ''[[Guards! Guards!]]'' by [[Terry Pratchett]].

Atkinson-Wood has been a regular presenter for the [[Channel 4]] series ''[[Collector's Lot]]'' and has made guest appearances on programmes such as ''[[Call My Bluff (US game show)|Call My Bluff]]''. She was a guest in episode 9 of the C series of ''[[QI]]'', when she answered a question deemed almost impossible by host [[Stephen Fry]] by correctly naming a chemical reaction equation as an explosion of [[Bird's Custard|custard powder]], earning 200 points. This was because, she claimed, she had studied [[domestic science]] at school. Through answering this single question, she held the highest cumulative total of any ''QI'' panellist at the time (this is no longer the case - for example, in the K Series episode "Knowledge", Alan Davies scored 689.66 points).