List of The Brittas Empire Characters - Linda Perkin (series 1, Series 2-7)

Linda Perkin (series 1, Series 2-7)

Linda Perkin (played by Jill Greenacre) (born 1971, aged 19–26) is a pool attendant at Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre. Linda teaches and train people in different sports.

Linda is loyal to Brittas and deeply admires him, yet like Laura and Gavin, is not above taking part in strikes against him, and is enthusiastic, despite being easily suggestible and slightly naive. Linda usually carries on diligently with whatever tasks Brittas and her co-workers assign to her, no matter how strange or illogical they may seem. Linda also acts as Receptionist when Carol is absent. Because of her extra work, she receives the highest wages. In one episode, Gordon suspects Linda is having an affair with colleague Gavin (whom Linda shows great friendship towards in many episodes).

Linda is extremely talented in fighting, for example; when somebody tries to attack her, she thumps them and breaks their arm, twice whilst trying to protect Brittas, she forces the attacker into a sack, and once beat a man to unconciousness. She also restrained men from fighting in reception. She even forced a man into a basket.

Linda also strongly protests against animal cruelty such as refusing to shoot an ostrich being shot, stopping a canary being crushed and protesting against a dolphin being used for human entertainment.

Linda once mentions that she has a brother who is learning about spiders and plants, and works in a Birmingham tropical disease centre, and that they want to go to Oregan to start up a gun shop there. Linda once mentions that she has a sister, although she could be making this up to hide an embarrassing fact.

Linda is in most episodes of the show, except for two in series one, for unknown reasons. She is one of the smaller main characters in the series, but her role is significantly larger from the second series onwards.

Linda once told Gordon that she was in a relationship with an old school friend, who later turns out to be her old 66-year-old Headmaster, Edward. When Edward retires, they try to have a child, but this fails. By 2019, Edward has died.

In 2019, Linda has become an Archdeacon, which was a coincidence, as she was once asked to act as a vicar for a funeral, wedding, and a christening, and in a dream that Brittas had, she played a nun.