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- The journalist Jasper Rees’s biography tells Wood’s story from her childhood in a junk-filled bungalow outside Bury, where her parents mostly left her to her own devices, to her later domination of British TV comedy via sketch series, live tours and annual specials.
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Oct 16, 2020 · Arts correspondent, BBC News. 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...
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Wood kept busy with various television ventures including...
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Victoria Wood (six parts, 1989) featured Wood in several individual stories such as "We'd Quite Like To Apologise", set in an airport departure lounge, and "Over to Pam", set around a fictional talk show.
Victoria Wood as a baby with her sisters Penelope and Rosalind. Rees's biography of Wood is full of detail and insight. Only Wood herself could have revealed more about how an introverted young...
Nov 12, 2020 · The journalist Jasper Rees’s biography tells Wood’s story from her childhood in a junk-filled bungalow outside Bury, where her parents mostly left her to her own devices, to her later...
She wasn't fond of the term, but Victoria Wood truly was a national treasure - and her loss is still keenly felt. Victoria had plenty of stories still to tell when she died in 2016, and one of those was her own autobiography. 'I will do it one day,' she told the author and journalist Jasper Rees.
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Nov 24, 2020 · AS the statue of her in Library Gardens attests, Bury remains incredibly proud of comedian and actress Victoria Wood. But as a new biography of the much-missed star reveals, Victoria’s relationship with her hometown was a complicated one, influenced by an unhappy childhood and isolated upbringing in an old children’s home overlooking bleak ...
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...