Editing Penelope Keith (section)

===Work===
Keith has regularly appeared on stage, taking the classics and new plays across the UK. These include Shakespeare, Shaw, Sheridan, Wilde, Rattigan and Congreve. She played Lorraine in [[Noël Coward]]'s ''Star Quality'', while in 2004 she played Madame Arcati in Coward's ''[[Blithe Spirit (play)|Blithe Spirit]]'' at the [[Savoy Theatre]]. In 2004, Keith starred in the first of ten full-cast BBC radio dramatisations of [[Marion Chesney|M.C. Beaton]]'s ''[[Agatha Raisin]]'' novels, playing the title role. Two years later, she appeared at the [[Chichester Festival Theatre|Chichester Festival]] in the premiere of [[Richard Everett]]'s comedy ''Entertaining Angels'', which she later took on tour.<ref name="Gardner 2006 w990">{{cite web | last=Gardner | first=Lyn | title=Entertaining Angels, Chichester Festival Theatre | website=The Guardian | date=11 May 2006 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2006/may/11/theatre | access-date=26 April 2024}}</ref>

In 2007 she played the part of Lady Bracknell in ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]'' on tour, which transferred to the West End in 2008, at the [[Vaudeville Theatre]].<ref name="Billington 2008 x603">{{cite web | last=Billington | first=Michael | title=Theatre review: The Importance of Being Earnest / Vaudeville Theatre, London | website=The Guardian | date=1 February 2008 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2008/feb/01/theatre | access-date=26 April 2024}}</ref> She has voiced adverts including ones for [[Pimm's]], [[Lurpak]], [[Tesco]] and most famously, [[Parker Pen Company|The Parker Pen Company]], which was named one of the 100 Greatest Adverts in a [[Channel 4]] programme. In 2012, she starred in Keith Waterstone's ''Good Grief'',<ref name="Live 2012 u734">{{cite web | last=Live | first=Surrey | title=Penelope Keith talks about Good Grief | website=Surrey Live | date=31 October 2012 | url=https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/theatre/penelope-keith-talks-good-grief-4808839 | access-date=26 April 2024}}</ref> having previously appeared in the play's premier production in 1998.<ref name="Cooper 2012 a016">{{cite web | last=Cooper | first=Neil | title=Good Grief, King's Theatre, Edinburgh | website=The Herald | date=4 October 2012 | url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/arts_ents/13075525.good-grief-kings-theatre-edinburgh/ | access-date=26 April 2024}}</ref>

In 1997 she starred in the radio adaptations of ''[[To the Manor Born]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jpzw|title=To the Manor Born, The Rhythms of the Earth |publisher=BBC |access-date=29 May 2017}}</ref> In 2003, she appeared opposite [[June Brown]] in the television film ''[[Margery & Gladys]]''. In 2007, she starred in a one-off ''To the Manor Born'' Christmas Special, Keith also voiced The Bear with Brown Fuzzy Hair in ''[[Teletubbies]]''.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}

In 2009 she presented ''Penelope Keith and the Fast Lady'', a one-off documentary for [[BBC Four]] about [[Dorothy Levitt]], the [[Edwardian period|Edwardian]] motoring pioneer. She presented the four-part BBC documentary ''The Manor Reborn'' in 2011.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-14430516|work=BBC News|title=Penelope Keith hosts 'The Manor Reborn' at Avebury|date=6 August 2011}}</ref>

In 2013 she played the part of [[Lady Catherine de Bourgh]] in the BBC [[period drama]] ''[[Death Comes to Pemberley (TV series)|Death Comes to Pemberley]]'', an adaptation of the best-selling 2011 [[P. D. James]] [[Death Comes to Pemberley|novel of the same name]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=De |first1=Robert |title=The Good Life's Penelope Keith makes TV return in Pride and Prejudice sequel Death Comes to Pemberley |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/the-good-life-s-penelope-keith-makes-tv-return-in-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-death-comes-to-pemberley-8662249.html |access-date=18 January 2025 |work=The Independent |publisher=Independent Digital News and Media Ltd |date=17 June 2013}}</ref>

Since 2014, she has presented all three series of the [[More4]]/[[Channel 4]] programme ''Penelope Keith's Hidden Villages'' and in June 2016 she presented ''Penelope Keith at Her Majesty's Service'' again for Channel 4.<ref name="Parker">{{cite news|last1=Parker|first1=Olivia|title=Penelope Keith: 'Westminster doesn't understand rural problems'|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/countryside/11842600/Penelope-Keith-Westminster-doesnt-understand-rural-problems.html|access-date=26 February 2016|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=3 September 2015}}</ref><ref name="Graham">{{cite web|last1=Graham|first1=Alison|title=Penelope Keith at Her Majesty's Service|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/d6vyx7/penelope-keith-at-her-majestys-service--series-1-episode-1|website=www.radiotimes.com|publisher=The Radio Times|access-date=12 June 2016}}</ref>

In December 2017, she presented ''Penelope Keith's Coastal Villages'', a continuation of the ''Hidden Villages'' series.
In early 2018, she presented the [[Channel 4]] series ''Village of the Year with Penelope Keith''. It was announced in February 2018 that Keith would be starring as Mrs St Maugham in the [[Chichester Festival Theatre]] production of [[Enid Bagnold]]'s ''[[The Chalk Garden]]'' from 25 May to 16 June 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cft.org.uk/whats-on/event/the-chalk-garden|title=The Chalk Garden {{!}} Chichester Festival Theatre|date=18 February 2018|website=Chichester Festival Theatre|access-date=18 February 2018}}</ref>