Victoria Wood: From Soup to Nuts

Rebecca Front presents a BBC Radio 4 documentary exploring Victoria Wood's stand-up and songs, using her own archives and tapes, including never-before-heard material. The documentary reveals Wood's comedy tricks and techniques, such as her instinctive sense of rhythm, rhyming ability, and knack for finding the perfect word. It also provides a look back at what made her so funny and universally loved.

Format: CD-Audio
Publication date: 04 April 2019
Publisher: BBC Worldwide Ltd

Victoria Wood was a comedic genius, actress, and national treasure. Over four decades, she wrote, starred in, and directed countless sketches, plays, musicals, films, and sitcoms, winning numerous awards and leaving a timeless legacy. Her razor-sharp observational humor made the ordinary and mundane hilarious, but how did she achieve this?

In this BBC Radio 4 documentary, Rebecca Front delves into the comedic brilliance of Victoria Wood using her personal rehearsal recordings, rare live performances, and behind-the-scenes footage. We hear about her innate sense of rhythm, incredible rhyming ability, and impeccable knack for finding the perfect word to make a sentence sing. We also explore how she honed her unique talent to become one of Britain's favorite funny women.

With unprecedented access to Victoria's boxes of battered cassette tapes, this program offers a shameless opportunity to hear some wonderful stand-up comedy, characters, and songs, mixed with a nostalgic look back at what made her so funny and universally loved.

Executive Producer: Geoff Posner
Produced by David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.

Weight: 88g
Dimension: 127 x 143 x 7 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781787534810
Edition number: Unabridged ed