Victoria Wood (I)
- English
- Actor, writer, composer and stand-up comedian
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Vinyl highlights collection for Victoria Wood As Seen On TV
A 2-disc vinyl collection of highlights from the landmark sketch show Victoria Wood As Seen On TV is to be released in May.
British Comedy Guide, 20th January 2023ISIHAC: how radio's smuttiest show has beaten the censors for 50 years
Innuendo, tone-deaf singing and dreadful wages: as the cherished BBC panel game celebrates its half century, we look back at its finest moments - and its future.
Mark Lawson, The Guardian, 11th April 2022The strange story of Victoria Wood's 'lost' play
As the writer and comedian's 1980 send-up of community theatre returns to the stage, Jasper Rees reveals how it was created.
Jasper Rees, The Times, 5th February 2022The unseen Victoria Wood
Hidden in the late comedian's remarkable archive is a sketch that is the foundation stone of her entire comedy career.
Jasper Rees, The Spectator, 12th November 2021Five women TV comedians and their BBC stories
A feature looking at five women who've made a mark in comedy at the BBC, marking 85 years of the corporation's formal television services.
BBC, 26th August 2021Talent review
Victoria Wood drama tackles the squalid side of celebrity.
Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 5th July 2021Talent at Sheffield Crucible - review
Victoria Wood's piece returns.
Ron Simpson, What's On Stage, 5th July 2021Talent, Sheffield Crucible review
A fitfully funny flashback to when Victoria Wood was a new face.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 4th July 2021Victoria Wood's song-filled slog to comedy glory
Joyce Grenfell inspired her, she wrote her own musical at school and a fringe theatre show with Julie Walters paved the way to TV fame. As Victoria Wood's Talent returns, we revisit her early stage years.
Rachael Healy, The Guardian, 9th June 2021Victoria Wood: a comic for the ages
Her voice can still be heard in those she inspired, writes Andrew Doyle.
Andrew Doyle, Spiked, 20th April 2021