IN CHARACTER
A face you won’t forget
Dorothy Portman
Played by Susan Earl
A patient interviewed by the documentary programme Issues Now in The Mitchell and Webb Situation. After an operation she spends five years with a slow-release lemon sherbet capsule in her bladder, which she first mistakes for an infection…
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A patient interviewed by the documentary programme Issues Now in The Mitchell and Webb Situation. After an operation she spends five years with a slow-release lemon sherbet capsule in her bladder, which she first mistakes for an infection before noticing the citrus smell and constant fizzing.
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