 All the other main characters – Wesley, Edie (Dame Thora Hird), Glenda (Sarah Thomas), Barry (Mike Grady), Howard (Robert Fyfe), Pearl (Juliette Kaplan), Marina (Jean Fergusson), Nora and Ivy — go to view it, in their different transport modes.Compo was always broke.He spent most of his life (presumably until he reached retirement age) in the unemployment queues, as the prospect of a job sent his skin white.