91-year-old Londoner on her one-woman show – BBC London News

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Thelma Ruby has worked with the likes of Dame Judi Dench and Kenneth Williams. 

But at the age of ninety-one, she's been tempted out of retirement onto the London stage for a one-woman show about her life story. 

Brenda Emmanus reports.

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