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33:37Now PlayingThe Reverend Joy Carroll provided the inspiration for Dawn French's character in The Vicar of Dibley. The reality of Joy's inner-city life in Streatham, however, is far removed from the rural idyll of Richard Curtis' BBC comedy series, as this portrait of the churchwoman reveals.
Narrated by Michael Sheen.
Clip taken from Everyman: Not the Vicar of Dibley, originally broadcast on BBC One, 16 April, 1995.
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