Durham, Grace Eleanor (daughter) 202–3, 204, 205, 210, 218, 225–6, 237–8, 262, 264, 276, 331, 342, 343, 352, 364
Durham, Henry William (son) 230, 231, 237, 238, 262, 264, 276, 331, 338, 342, 343, 352, 364
Eckersley, Peter 107–8, 113, 136, 137, 142, 165, 178, 187
Eric & Ernie 344–7, 352, 356, 360
‘Feeling In The Mood Tonight’ (song) 241
Foote-Wood, Christopher (brother) 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11–12, 16–17, 23, 30, 31, 42, 81, 115–16, 117, 147, 190, 226, 364
‘Fourteen Again’ (song) 102, 103, 133, 152, 176, 177
French, Dawn 143, 165, 181, 201, 202, 207, 261, 273, 295, 297, 304, 324, 340
Fungus the Bogeyman 362
Funny Turns 133–5, 148, 149, 151–3, 154–5
Giddy Kipper, The 341–2
‘Good Fun’ (song) 132
Good Fun 112, 116, 117, 118, 119–26, 129, 130, 131–2, 133–4, 135, 142, 145, 148, 167, 194, 197, 204, 212, 259, 281, 325
Good Fun (production company) 225, 231, 288
Great Comic Relief Bake Off, The 362
Great Railway Journeys 261–2, 331
Grenfell, Joyce 20–2, 30, 45, 71, 77, 134, 194, 257, 330, 365
Gulati, Shobna 282, 286, 296
Happy Since I Met You 136–41, 150, 158, 192, 212
Henry, Lenny 82, 83, 84, 165, 260, 292
Hird, Thora 93, 171, 255, 293, 305, 347
Housewife, 49 329–31, 333, 338, 347
‘I Don’t Care’ (song) 187–8
Imrie, Celia 77, 166, 167, 168, 173, 185, 196, 197, 201–2, 207, 211–12, 215, 244, 251, 279, 280, 286, 287, 296, 299, 319, 320, 326, 338
In At The Death 95–100, 103, 133
Insight 177
Internal Affairs (Jill Tweedie) 198–9
‘I’ve Had It Up To Here’ (song) 132, 133–4, 152
Julie Walters and Friends 228–9, 232
Just A Minute 142
League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse 320
Leland, David 100, 107, 108, 122, 131, 183
‘Let’s Do It’ (‘Ballad of Barry and Freda’) (song) 180, 187, 189, 269, 338, 341
Leventon, Annabel 121–3, 126, 131
Library, The 207, 209, 214–15
‘Lorraine’ (song) 79, 103
‘Love Song’ (song) 97, 103, 133
Loving Miss Hatto 353–7
Lucky Bag 41–2, 155–60, 178, 185, 212, 221, 267
Lucky Bag Songbook 167, 228
‘Mall, The’ (sketch) 233, 234
McCarthy, Gerry 66–7, 68–9, 74, 76, 104, 125
Mens Sana In Thingummy Doodah 207, 208, 214, 215
Molly and the Seaweed Hypermarket 177
Morecambe 93–4, 101, 102, 106, 112, 114, 115, 118, 134, 135, 147, 149, 155, 156, 162, 181, 202, 226, 255
Morecombe, Eric 93, 104, 218, 259, 339, 344–7
Morrissey 176, 177, 358
‘Music and Movement’ (song) 133, 152
Nassau, show in 224–5
Natural Order, The 177
Nearly A Happy Ending 117, 119, 126–32, 135, 139, 158, 178, 208, 241
Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything, The 305
New Faces 75–7, 78, 79–80, 82–3, 88, 103, 104, 109, 112, 128, 130, 186, 191
‘Northerners’ (song) 4, 144, 152, 267
Nunn, Sir Trevor 315, 320, 321, 322, 327
Ogden, Patricia 33, 47, 49, 54
Orton, Joe 68, 70, 102, 110, 365
Over To Pam 207, 210
Pals 110
Pat and Margaret 103, 211, 244–57, 265, 295, 299, 306, 329, 330
Pet Shop Boys 223–4
Posner, Geoff 165, 217, 231, 256, 279, 287, 300, 340
Preston, Duncan 137–8, 139, 142, 166–7, 174, 231, 244, 245, 261, 279, 282, 296, 319, 320, 325, 338
Princess and the Frog, The 256
Pub Entertainer of the Year contest 72
Pyramid Game, The 164
Radio Times 168, 295, 304, 323, 326
Rantzen, Esther 87, 88, 171
Reid, Anne 107, 187, 198, 209, 215, 244, 261, 279, 280–1, 286, 309, 338
Return To Oz 177
Roughley, Lill 93, 169, 197, 206–7, 208, 209, 233, 261
Routledge, Patricia 145, 171, 255, 296
Royal Variety Performance 188
Royle Family 293, 303–4, 307, 309–10, 339
Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry and Paul 357
‘Saturday Night’ (song) 221
Saunders, Jennifer 143, 165, 202, 273, 324, 337, 340
Scene 322
Secret Policeman’s Other Ball, The 141
‘Sex’ (sketch) 98–9, 100
Silverdale, Lancashire 147–8, 160, 164, 199, 203, 220–1, 225–6
‘Smile Song, The’ (song) 224
South Bank Show, The 18, 35, 265, 270, 331
St John On… 73–4
Start the Week 95
Staying In 212–13
Stephenson, Pamela 109, 141, 206
Still Standing 277, 278
Summer Show, The 82–4
‘Swim The Channel’ (sketch) 169
Swish of the Curtain, The (Pamela Brown) 44–6, 53, 54, 64, 125, 288, 324, 333
Talent 100–11, 112–14, 115, 116–17, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 126, 127–8, 130, 131, 133, 158, 187, 204, 223, 250, 259, 293, 295, 334–6
That Day We Sang 348–51, 352, 354, 358–61
That Musical We Made 361
That’s Life 86–8, 96, 125
‘This House Believes’ (sketch) 41–2
Tickling My Ivories 107, 110, 133
‘To Be An Actress’ (sketch) 169, 172, 325
‘Trolley, The’ (sketch) 186
Up To You Porky 178, 182
Val de Ree 207, 211–12, 215
Victoria’s Big Fat Documentary 318–19
Victoria Wood – Live In Your Own Home 256–7
Victoria Wood – Sold Out 225
Victoria Wood As Seen On TV 145, 160– 2, 165–75, 177, 178, 179, 181, 182, 183, 184–8, 189, 196, 197, 200, 209, 212, 255, 270, 323, 325, 337
Victoria Wood Live 203
Victoria Wood Up West 222–3
Victoria Wood With All The Trimmings 307–10
Victoria Wood’s All Day Breakfast 231–4, 256
Victoria Wood’s Mid Life Christmas 337–40
Victoria Wood’s Nice Cup of Tea 358
Victoria Wood’s Sketch Show Story 314–15
Victoria’s Empire 331–2
Walters, Julie 59–60, 89, 96, 97, 98, 104, 110, 111, 112, 114, 119, 121, 123, 126, 131, 136, 137–8, 139, 142, 144, 145, 146, 148, 155, 158, 163, 164, 165, 167, 168, 171, 173, 177, 182, 183, 185, 186, 187, 189, 196, 197, 198, 200, 201, 207, 209, 211, 223, 228–9, 230, 232, 233, 244, 255, 279, 280, 281, 296, 303, 309, 315, 317, 319–20, 323, 324, 325, 326, 336, 337, 338, 339, 344, 364
We’d Quite Like To Apologise 209–11, 214
Wind In The Willows, The 270
Women’s Institute, The 82, 134, 135, 309
Wood, Helen (mother) 1, 2, 4, 5, 7–8, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17–18, 19, 23, 25, 29, 32, 36, 38, 43, 44, 53–4, 62, 66, 96, 103, 169, 198, 230, 236–7, 250–1, 254, 285, 302, 311, 312–13, 316–17, 328, 342
Wood, Penny (sister) 3, 8, 9, 11, 12, 30, 31, 37, 147
Wood, Rebecca (niece) 226, 238
Wood, Rosalind (sister) 1, 11, 30, 37, 50, 51, 52, 53, 56, 147
Wood, Stanley (father) 1, 2–11, 16, 18, 19, 20, 25, 38, 43, 48, 55, 69, 80–1, 90–1, 103, 119, 169, 236, 242, 243, 307, 342, 349
Wood, Victoria:
awards 116–117, 126, 180, 189, 200, 203, 218, 228, 231, 256, 259, 270, 293, 297, 304–5, 307, 313, 323, 324, 326, 330, 341, 352
Birmingham University 64–5, 66–72, 73, 76, 80, 331
childhood and early life 1–65
commercials 55, 142, 182
death 363–6
family relationships see under individual family member name
health 18, 31, 235–7, 258, 294, 311–12, 317
managers 81–2, 85, 86–7, 144, 186, 276, 321, 324
marriage see Durham, Geoffrey
OBE 275–6
Quakerism 258–9
shyness 22, 23, 25, 26, 32, 41, 44, 47, 48, 53, 62, 69, 70, 72, 89, 95, 159, 212, 231, 235, 264, 275, 324
vegetarianism 160, 164–5, 243, 250
weight 36, 42, 109, 112, 119, 128–9, 142, 207, 208, 219, 243, 291, 318–19, 350
Wood & Walters 136, 137, 141–7, 148, 151, 152, 160, 171, 178, 278, 319, 324, 339
Wordplay 84–6, 122
SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Brown, Pamela. The Swish of the Curtain (Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1941). Hind, John. The Comic Inquisition, Conversations with Great Comedians (Virgin Books, 1991).
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The help and co-operation of the following institutions is gratefully acknowledged:
BAFTA Central Library, Manchester
BBC Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
Birmingham Library Duke’s Playhouse, Lancaster
Birmingham University King’s Head, London
British Film Institute Newspaper Library, London
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