Rob Newman Reviews History of the World Backwards

Robert Newman has this to say about Lucy on his website: http://www.robnewman.com

The mighty Lucy Liemann! Here she is playing the science-mad Duchess of Padua, patron to Galileo and Kepler. She collects antique junk technology from 400 years ago and together the three of them try to work out what this salvage might have been used for back in the 20th and 21st centuries, be it a Sat Nav or a solar panel.

Lucy is a very brave, intelligent actress. Intrepid and game, she would throw herself whole-heartedly into a sketch and push to the back of her mind that small, disquieting voice which whispered "but there doesn't appear to any comedy here at all..." As a result everything she did was very real, and often would create something funny which I'd then claim was what I had intended all along.

She also knows the history of all moisturisers, all cosmetics. The best part of the day on those when we both had a 7am call, was her telling me, as we were driven through the rolling grounds of the Orchard Leigh, how astronauts led to the accidental discovery of Elizabeth Arden's 8-Hour Cream, or the link between injured soldiers and Creme De La Mer.

The orginal article is here.