Geraldine Newman Geraldine Newman Geraldine Newman (born 18 February 1934) is an English film and television actress who has acted in more than 30 television programmes and films. Her most notable television performance was in the sitcom "Ever Decreasing Circles". Newman attended drama school in Brighton. She is best known for her role as Hilda Hughes in the 1980s BBC TV series, "Ever Decreasing Circles" which ran from 1984-87 with a special, extended Christmas series finale in December 1989. She was married to fellow English actor, David Garth, who was 14 years her senior, until his death in 1988. She continues to
Hilda Tablet Leonard Sachs, Michael Flanders, Norman Shelley and Rose Hill. Hilda's music, and the pop-songs of Owen Shewin, were created for the series by Donald Swann. All seven plays were produced by Douglas Cleverdon. "Hilda Tablet and Others", BBC Books, London, 1971contains the scripts of "A Very Great Man Indeed", "The Private Life of Hilda Tablet", "A Hedge Backwards", and "The Primal Scene, As It Were...". Hilda Tablet Hilda Tablet is a fictitious "twelve-tone composeress" created by Henry Reed in a series of radio comedy plays for the British Broadcasting Corporation's Third Programme. Hilda is the inventor of "musique concrète renforcée"