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Emma Chambers (left, as Alice) and Dawn French (as the Revd Geraldine Granger) feature on one of eight stamps released on Tuesday by Royal Mail “in celebration of a beloved British sitcom”, The Vicar of Dibley. The programme was broadcast on BBC1 from 1994 to 2020

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