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1. • • Wood got her first break on the TV talent show New Faces in 1974, while still a student at Birmingham University. She established herself as a comedy star with her hit show Victoria Wood: As Seen On TV and went on to create the popular BBC comedies Acorn Antiques and Dinnerladies, featuring her long-time collaborator Julie Walters.
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     Victoria Wood dies aged 62 after cancer battle - BBC News

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   How did Victoria Wood make a comedy?

   • But how did she do it? The Radio 4 documentary Victoria Wood: From Soup to Nuts used her own personal rehearsal recordings, rare live performances and behind-the-scenes footage to reveal some of her comedy construction methods. Here are just a few of her tips, tricks and techniques.

   BBC Radio 4 - Funny in Four - Victoria Wood's rules of comedy

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   What happened to Victoria Wood?

   • Victoria Wood's best work had a comic breadth and energy few contemporaries could match. When she died in 2016, for some fans it was as though a family member had been taken from them. Now an authorised biography looks at what lay behind her extraordinary and multifaceted talent. Journalist Jasper Rees first interviewed Wood in 1999.

   Victoria Wood biography explores her 'painful' childhood - BBC

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   What did Victoria Wood do for a living?

   • Songs, sketches, sit-coms, stand-up, scripts: Victoria Wood had a unique and unmistakable genius for comedy. Beloved by audiences and greatly missed, she just had the knack to make the mundane and the overlooked essentially funny. But how did she do it?

   BBC Radio 4 - Funny in Four - Victoria Wood's rules of comedy

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   How important was music to Victoria Wood?

   • There can’t be many comedians for whom music was so important as it was for Victoria Wood. Her brilliant live comedy act featured her own compositions, which she sang and played at the piano. She won four Baftas from 14 nominations. She also won a special Bafta at a tribute evening in 2005. Her musical interests extended into the classical realm.

   Victoria Wood was a fantastically witty pianist too: and this video

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   When did Victoria Wood start a comedy show?

   • The 1990s saw two big stand-up tours and West End residencies including her 15 night sell out shows at the Royal Albert Hall in 1996 and a brief return to the TV sketch format in 1992 for a Christmas special, Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast, but by the mid-90s Vic's mind had turned to comedy drama.

   A celebration of the comedy of Victoria Wood at 70 - British Comedy G…

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   Who is Victoria Wood?

   • An Audience With... - Victoria Wood - Special Edition The incomparable Victoria Wood (Acorn Antiques, Dinnerladies) is the star of this special show that won two 1989 British Academy Film and Television Arts Awards - for Best Light Entertainment Programme and for Best Light Entertainment Performance.

   A celebration of the comedy of Victoria Wood at 70 - British Comedy G…

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     Victoria Wood: All the Laughs and More | British Comedy Legends | History Is Ours

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     Victoria Wood: A look back on her life - BBC Newsnight

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     An Audience With Victoria Wood 1988

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     Victoria Wood - Lets do it - The Ballad of Barry and Freda - An Audience With...

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     Victoria Wood - Let's Do It - The Ballad of Barry & Freda - Original 1986 version

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     Victoria Wood -Things Would Never Have Worked - An Audience With...

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     Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast (including BBC continuity)

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     Victoria Wood Still Standing - Baby Boom

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4. www.bbc.com › news › entertainment-arts-54524241Victoria Wood biography explores her 'painful' childhood - BBC

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   When she died in 2016, for some fans it was as though a family member had been taken from them. Now an authorised biography looks at what lay behind her extraordinary and multifaceted talent ...

5. www.classicfm.com › victoria-wood-lets-do-itVictoria Wood was a fantastically witty pianist too: and this ...

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   Apr 20, 2016 · Victoria Wood was a fantastically witty pianist too: and this video proves it. The much-loved, multi-talented Victoria Wood has died aged 62 after a short battle with cancer. Here's her most famous song, The Ballad of Barry and Freda.

6. www.bbc.co.uk › victoria-woods-rules-of-comedyBBC Radio 4 - Funny in Four - Victoria Wood's rules of comedy

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   The Radio 4 documentary Victoria Wood: From Soup to Nuts used her own personal rehearsal recordings, rare live performances and behind-the-scenes footage to reveal some of her comedy...

7. victoriawoodfoundation.org.uk › victorias-biographyVictoria’s Biography – The Victoria Wood Foundation

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   Her three-part documentary, 'Victoria's Empire' was shown the following year. In 2011 she wrote and directed a musical ' That Day We Sang ' for the Manchester International Festival, which was about the famous 1929 recording of 'Nymphs and Shepherds' by the Manchester Children's Choir.

8. www.denofgeek.com › culture › victoria-wood-a-saluteVictoria Wood: a salute to some of her finest songs

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   Dec 29, 2016 · I first saw this on the Audience With Victoria Wood video that my brother bought in the Woolworths sale. But here’s her performance from her 1994 Live In Your Own Home special.

9. www.comedy.co.uk › people › victoria_woodA celebration of the comedy of Victoria Wood at 70 - British ...

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   May 19, 2023 · On what would have been Victoria Wood's 70th birthday, Georgy Jamieson takes a look back at her comedy career and pays tribute to her remarkable talents.

10. www.independent.co.uk › arts-entertainment › booksVictoria Wood: The warm, zany, outgoing stage persona was ...

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    Oct 21, 2020 · The “Victoria Wood” that her fans came to know and love had to be meticulously crafted with the help of her husband. The transformation happened after Victoria’s career finally took off in...