Victoria Wood
Desert Island Discs
BBC
4.3 • 14.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 1987
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Comedienne, musician and playwright are just three of the talents of Victoria Wood. In conversation with Michael Parkinson, she outlines her career to date from its humble beginnings with the Rochdale Youth Theatre to having her own show on television. She also chooses the eight records she would take to the mythical island.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: African Ripples by Fats Waller Book: The collected works by Arthur Marshall Luxury: Cinema organ
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Kirstie Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs Archive. |
| 0:05.1 | For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music. |
| 0:08.1 | The program was originally broadcast in 1987, and the presenter was Michael Parkinson. |
| 0:13.5 | Music The most simple description of our castaway would be that she's a very funny woman. |
| 0:33.3 | One writer said that if we simply consider her as a joke factory, she'd be the Nissan of show business. |
| 0:38.9 | Joke writing a part, she's also an actress, comedian, playwright, scriptwriter, musician and composer. |
| 0:44.5 | Whatever she does, she displays that rare ability to make people laugh. |
| 0:47.9 | She is Victoria Wood. |
| 0:49.9 | Victoria, do you think you're going to enjoy this stint on the Desert Island? |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.8 | Why? |
| 0:54.4 | I like to be on my own better than with other people. You try to escape, do you think you're going to enjoy this stint on the desert island? Yeah. Why? I'd like to be on my own better than with other people. You try to escape, do you think? Depends how far the nearest place was. I can swim quite a long way. But I probably wouldn't, because I'd be too frightened. And what about the choice of music for this desert island? You've taken... I'm going to take eight records with you. Now, it's interesting to find out why people make the choice. I mean, is it about memory for you or what? |
| 1:14.7 | Well, mostly it's mood. It's things I've played to put me in a good mood. |
| 1:09.9 | And if I was on a desert, I'd want to be in a good mood all the time. |
| 1:13.3 | But some of them I've known for years and years, and so they do remind me of other things. |
| 1:16.9 | And what part is music played in your life? |
| 1:19.6 | Has there always been music with you? Have you always been interesting? |
| 1:21.5 | Oh, huge bit. It's the first thing I was ever good at. they do remind me of other things. And what part is music played in your life? Has there always been music with you? |
| 1:27.5 | Have you always been interesting? |
| 1:28.7 | Oh, huge bit. |
| 1:29.5 | The first thing I was ever good at was playing the piano |
| 1:30.4 | because I was certainly never good at anything else. |
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