It has been reported today that actress Ysanne Churchman has passed away at the age of 99.
She was well known to Doctor Who fans as the voice of the hermaphrodite hexapod Alpha Centauri in The Curse of Peladon (1972), Monster of Peladon (1974), and reprised for a cameo in Empress of Mars (2017).
The costume was operated by Stuart Fell, and the pair collaborated to bring the popular character to life.
Churchman also provided the voice of Lupton's power hungry Eight-Leg in 1974's Planet of the Spiders.
Primarily a radio performer, the actress came to national fame as Grace Archer in the long-running rural drama The Archers. In 1955, her character was killed off in a fire on the evening that ITV launched in the UK - a deliberate move to sabotage the new channel's ratings.
Other voice work included the puppet show Space Patrol (currently being repeated on Talking Pictures), and TV appearances included cult sci-fi show The Flipside of Dominick Hide and its sequel, and Nigel Kneale's Beasts.
RIP.
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