Victoria Wood

Great Lives

BBC

History, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Actor and comedian Daniel Rigby chooses the creator of Acorn Antiques, As Seen on TV and Dinnerladies, Victoria Wood. Victoria grew up in a bungalow high up on the moors in Lancashire. The rooms were partitioned off with plywood, and she loved to play the piano on her own. She became the biggest comedy star in the UK, writing, directing, acting, and winning BAFTAS for being funny, and being serious too. Nominating the star of Wood and Walters, Dinnerladies and Housewife, 49 is Daniel Rigby. Daniel won a BAFTA playing Eric Morecambe in 2011, with Victoria Wood as his mum. She also became his landlady. Joining the often joyful discussion is Jasper Rees - author of the authorised biography of Victoria Wood. Presenter: Matthew Parris Producer: Miles Warde First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2020.

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0:00.0	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan
0:05.2	I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy
0:10.2	podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really.
0:13.0	Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,
0:18.0	making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.
0:22.0	But you know I also know that comedy is really
0:24.4	subjective and everyone has different tastes so we've got a huge range of comedy on offer
0:29.6	from satire to silly shocking to soothing profound to just general pratting about. So if you
0:36.2	fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds.
0:41.0	BBC Sounds, Music, radio podcasts.
0:45.0	Victoria Wood was one of the greatest British comedians of recent years,
0:50.0	the greatest that I can remember.
0:52.0	She was also a playwright, an actress, a songwriter,
0:56.0	and she was unexpectedly shy.
0:58.0	Stand up is the ideal place for a shy person,
1:02.0	she said, because you're completely in control.
1:05.7	She died in 2016 of cancer, aged only 62, but Victoria lives on in innumerable recordings of her performing in full funny flow.
1:16.0	Take a listen.
1:17.0	I can remember when pants were pants.
1:22.0	You wore the pants.
1:23.0	You wore them for 20 years, then you cut them down for pants grubs. Our quilts. We used to make lovely quilts out of Salin'es Bloams. Every gusseter
1:41.3	memory. Not bras though, they won't lie flat, you see.
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