"It's anything for a laugh, so she loves Dad's Army, Keeping Up Appearances and Yes Minister and Morse", says her niece, Margaret Rhodes.
Yes, Minister and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister were both written and created by Lynn and Antony Jay, with the first episode broadcast in 1980.
Green groups are drawing that conclusion following a bizarre "Yes Minister" exchange I've had on the issue with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
Margaret Thatcher once played a cameo role in Yes Minister and who can forget Neil Kinnock's walk-on part in the video for Tracy Ullman's single, They Don't Know?
Conservative finance spokesperson Paul Davies AM argued that the budget was "simply not fit for purpose" and described the budget discussions as "a saga straight out of Yes Minister".
In Yes Minister, Sir Humphrey and his civil service colleague Bernard Woolley regularly flaunt their classical education with word-perfect Latin and Greek quotations they know their boss will not understand.
Leave aside for a moment the corporate Punch and Judy show between First Group and Virgin and the Whitehall farce that even a scriptwriter on Yes Minister would have ditched as too ridiculous.
His distinctive work, featuring grotesque, often cruel caricatures, has also appeared in the artwork of Pink Floyd's 1979 album, The Wall, and the title sequences of TV satires Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.
Asked about the satirical comedy Yes Minister, in which civil servants famously sought to thwart government plans, Mr Cameron admitted there were "elements of truth" in it but dismissed "some of the characterisations in the papers".
It would also be what they used to call in Yes, Minister "very brave", in other words, politically suicidal.
But those seeking proof of just how much emphasis even professional journalists can place on Wikipedia need look no further than the example of Ronnie Hazlehurst, a British composer of TV theme tunes for shows including "Yes, Minister" and "Last of the Summer Wine, " who died this October.
The original Yes, Prime Minister series ran from 1980 to 1988 for 38 episodes.
Satirical 1980s comedy show Yes, Prime Minister is to be revived for a new six-part series.
"The political landscape in Britain today is the perfect setting for Yes, Prime Minister to return, " UKTV's Jane Rogerson said.
So it is with exquisite timing that Yes, Prime Minister returns to our screens this week after an absence of 24 years.
So Whitehall and Westminster will recognise some truth in the new series of Yes, Prime Minister but it is still more comedy than documentary.
Sometimes officials do end up in conflict with their political masters but that conflict is rarely as overt as Yes, Prime Minister would have it.
On Monday David Cameron told the Today programme that there were "elements of truth" in Yes, Prime Minister's description of the relationship between minister and official.
The new series of Yes, Prime Minister was made for a rival channel because the BBC asked its creators to make a pilot episode, it has emerged.
It is a yes and comes from a minister who - caught in that painful spot between principle and pragmatism - has come over all Vicky Pollard.
BBC: Yeah but no but to using the private sector in the NHS?
John Swinney (SNP Leader) asked whether the First Minister would vote 'yes' if there was to be a referendum on the European Constitution as it stands.
The Education Minister, Leighton Andrews, says yes - but no but yes.
And then I think, yes, the conversations that he and the Prime Minister have, that leaders of this administration and leaders of the Israeli government have, are full of detail and analysis.
It's perhaps an indication of concern that President Jacques Chirac started his campaign in Barcelona, joining the Spanish prime minister in a call for a resounding "Yes" on Sunday.
In nearly five years as Canada's minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism (yes, that's "Multiculturalism" with a capital M), Kenney has spent almost every weekend in immigrant constituencies attending parties, visiting temples and mosques, and embracing, sometimes literally, thousands of recent immigrants.
And she said at the time, I'll never forget, I said, 'are you okay prime minister, ' and she said, 'Yes, I'm amazed it hasn't happened before.
Yes, the estate supplied wine to Britain's first prime minister, Robert Walpole, in the 18th century, but throughout much of the 20th century, it struggled.
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