Geoffrey Palmer (actor) appear in productions written by "Perrin" creator David Nobbs, the latest being the radio comedy "The Maltby Collection". He starred opposite Judi Dench for over a decade in the BBC situation comedy "As Time Goes By" (1992–2005). During this time he also appeared with Dench in other productions, including the James Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies," in which he portrayed Admiral Roebuck, and "Mrs. Brown", playing Sir Henry Ponsonby to Dench's Queen Victoria. He played Doctor Price in the "Fawlty Towers" episode "The Kipper and the Corpse", determined to get breakfast amidst the confusion caused by the death of a
Kipper ethnographer Walter William Skeat derives the word from the Old English "kippian", to spawn. The word has various possible parallels, such as Icelandic "kippa" which means "to pull, snatch" and the Germanic word "kippen" which means "to tilt, to incline". Similarly, the Middle English "kipe" denotes a basket used to catch fish. Another theory traces the word kipper to the "kip", or small beak, that male salmon develop during the breeding season. As a verb, "kippering" ("to kipper") means to preserve by rubbing with salt or other spices before drying in the open air or in smoke. Originally applied to