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Victoria Wood

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first: 2007-12-23
most recent: 2007-12-23
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“I'd like a bumper book of Sudoku they would have to have blank pages every other page would have to be blank and a nice black pen so I could write if I wanted to because I don't do workings out in Sudoku I do it all over my head so that's what I'd like thank you”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I would be I'd be too fine, actually, because I have a tendency to isolate myself, so it's probably the worst place for me. I'd much be better off if you put me in a shopping centre.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, probably a cliche I know on this, but it would have to be Dickens, who I never managed to get on with, and I'd have no choice but on Desert Island have to really get stuck in. And he does write such nice big books.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My next piece of music is The Clare College Singers doing a carol, I think orchestrated and conducted by John Rutter. And I adore Christmas music. In fact, that's the best bit of Christmas to me is the music. I like the music and making the cake, really, those are my high points. After that, really, I'm not bother as long as there's a bit of chocolate and some telly. And another reason I've picked this one is that my daughter is going to go to Claire College next year and she's going to sing. So I'm really, really hoping, of course, that she ends up on a Christmas TV and that really would make my year.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, but it will be a comedy, I suppose. It'll have more comedy in the housewife did and less wigs and less war. It'd be contemporary comedy.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I can't really tell you that because if you start talking about something, it does die on you, unfortunately, and I'd rather write than talk, really.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Be writing from next week, and I've done this, I have to get this out of the way. Yeah, I'll be writing a film. I don't know if it'll ever get made, but I'm going to write it.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I did because dear old Dame Julie Walters didn't feel she could quite manage eight shows a week at her great age, so I said I would do her Monday nights and her Wednesday matinees, because it really is a hell of a job doing eight shows a week. So I did two of her shows as Mrs Overall, which was fantastic because I didn't have to carry the whole show.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't really know why I did it. I've had a huge amount of pleasure out of it. Hopefully other people have had as well. I suppose I was drawn to that world of the musical whether the lights are on and we've all got lipstick on and we're tap dancing and the bands playing. I adore that world anyway and it was a great way to be in the theatre without having to be on stage myself as a comedian. I could never have talked about my marriage on stage. I just couldn't have done it and wouldn't do it and it's, you know, why would you inflict that on people? But I could write something. I wanted it to be like a little sort of sweetie box really and just say, look, here, you know, here's some fun. I'm going to put some fun on the stage.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“At least you know you're not boring somebody, or if you are boring them, at least they're getting 75 quid. So you don't feel so inhibited. I did it during that time of my marriage breakup a lot because I found it very comforting to talk to a therapist who had talked to lots and lots of people. It's a very banal thing when your marriage breaks up. It's very, very common. And I did find that a bit of a help to think that there was a process and people do come through the other side.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I felt like one of those cartoon people that steps over a cliff really legs are moving and then there's nothing underneath. You know, 26 years is a long time in your landscape changes suddenly. I find that very difficult.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, this is one of my favourite composers. This is Arvo Part, and I haven't just choked this in to show the Denurbeet classical music, but I do love love classical music. This is something that I used to play when I went through a very bad time. A few years ago, and it was the first time I really realized that music could express things that you perhaps couldn't express yourself verbally, or sometimes it would almost take away the feeling that you had. And so I would lie there and I would be feeling quite numb because I was miserable and yet there was a sort of release in the music.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I deal with it better than I used to because I know what I'm doing. And so it takes up a much smaller part of my conscious day.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, that was always difficult for me. I always found that a difficulty, about that whole thing, about being fat because I just felt ashamed about it. I see bigger girls now wearing wonderful things, whereas my instinct was, oh, well, I have to just wear a big old suit, that's all I can do.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, not till not till I was about forty, I don't think all I thought of it as was a weight problem that I heard a weight problem was too heavy. I didn't actually see that it was a terrible obsession and that I was using food as a drug and as a distraction as an avoidance as sort of self-medication. I didn't really, I was a bit thick actually, not really examining what it was.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Had your mother. Your mother took me to the doctor, yeah. She was on them as well. We were all on them, but I think they were like speed. Yeah, I was always obsessing about fat and weight food. Could I have this? Could I not have that? And it went on, I still have it now, it doesn't ever go away, but it's not as bad now.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very assiduous consumer of everything, yeah, diet. I was on diet pills when I was 12, 13, and then I used to buy those terrible things that looked like custard creams that you were supposed to have for your lunch. Oh, very good, that's going to be.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Dieting in general No, I was quite happy to talk about that. I'm very, very anti the dieting industry because I think they exploit people's insecurities and also they don't deliver what they promise. It's an industry based on predicting failure.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My next piece of music, this is my happy music, and I didn't even know who this was. Somebody burnt me this CD and I had to ask who the act was. I didn't know it was the Doobie Brothers because I know this track as a warm-up track when we did Econ Antiques the Musical in the West End two years ago and we used to do a warm-up at the start of the day's rehearsal and this was the first track on the warm-up tape and I absolutely love it.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, not if it's something like you cut bits of your pubic hair off with the nail scissors. I don't mind saying that. I don't mind people knowing that about me. But I would hate anybody to see my tea towels, actually.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Um sometimes I do. I have talked about my kids a little tiny bit but only so that I can get into talking about kids generally but I think you try and pick on the things that you think are a common experience”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The standard was a big thing, and it was the thing I concentrated on much more than anything else. I mean, I do base it in truth and I do try and be honest in a sense. I try and come from a point of view of reality, but in the end, it is two hours of lies. You know, that's comedy.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They didn't really take much notice. I mean, that was all right. I mean, that's the good things that they leave you alone to do what you want, or they used to. It's not really quite the same now, or you have to sort of battle with about 22 ladies in nice suits telling you what they think comedy is about. But then people did leave you alone. So although they didn't seem to be particularly appreciative”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, my next piece music is Tom Waits, and it sounds like it's going to be very gloomy. It's called Misery's the River of the World. And I get a lot of the music that I know from listen to the radio sort of late night. And this is one I'd heard. But I just love this. It makes me laugh, even though it's so gloomy.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know if I would have done what I did without Jeff. I don't know whether I would have been. A standard comedian without him.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, we did that sketch show together, and I wrote a stage play which she wasn't in because she was in another theatre, and that was my first play talent, and then when talent was bought by Granada Television, duly auditioned to play the main part in that play, and she got the part. And after that we did lots of things together.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I didn't feel that everything I wrote had to be done by me, but then I did want to be on the stage myself, because it's more interesting. I don't want to just hand things over to people, because I like the doing of it as much as the writing of it.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, because I was writing a sketch for the show I mentioned at the Bush Theatre with Julie Walters and I just suddenly found the way that you constructed a sentence so that it would people would have to respond with a laugh at the end. And there's a very fine line between something that's quite funny, quite amusing and might provoke a smile and something that actually lands and gets a laugh. And once you find that, you're sort of home free, really.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, there isn't. But I know when I did it, when it took me from 1974 to 1978 to work out how you actually wrote a joke. And then when I wrote a joke, I thought, aha, this is how you write a joke.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, was that professionally? Yeah, in every way, really, but particularly he was encouraging because I think comedy is a very difficult thing to do without somebody in your corner because it's really lonely to have somebody with you who says, oh, that was good, that didn't work, that was great. You know, hopefully I helped him as much as he helped me, but I don't think it would have worked as well without him. And we just did everything together.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“whether you like it or not. But first of all, I'm now married too. I met him he was an actor at the Phoenix Theatre in Leicester, and I was asked to be the musical director of a show he was in playing Buffalo Bill. I can't really explain it was just one of those things. It was just one of those things where you click.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My next piece of music is Mr Scruff, who I'd never heard of because, you know, very old. I don't really, you know, can't really tell the white stripes from the black and white minstrels, but my son, luckily, being 15, is very up to the minute with pop music. And he said, though, I think you'd really like this. And he put it on my iPod. And it's Mr Scruff. And my favourite track, Get a Move on.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no, no, no, you don't just sat and sang at the piano. That's all I did. It took me a few years to progress to standing up. After a few years, so I could have just a radio mic and nothing in my hands and no piano and nothing. And then I felt I'd reached, you know, achieve something to make it that simple.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It doesn't mean that he deserved the word act it was a few songs. I just used to write little topical songs and that was all I could do really. I mean it was shocking really.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, that was my other side, you see, the other side was ticking all along. For someone who didn't really seem to have a lot of bottle, I did really show quite a lot of initiative. I wrote a play and I took it to BBC at Pebble Mill. I auditioned at Pebble Mill and I auditioned for new faces, which was a massive, massive talent show at the time, 1973 and turned up at a nightclub with about five thousand people standing on the pavement and went an audition, which I think is quite brave.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not to look at yourself. I didn't look at myself really. I like to wear big chunky boots and big coats and I had a load of hair and little round glasses. I felt okay actually. I felt okay.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Um I probably didn't look as bad as I thought I looked. I can't tell you what I looked like because I didn't look at myself because I had, you know, I don't know if I'm body dysmorphic. I just really had a really bad body. I don't know.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It wasn't for me because I did the same thing as I dumb when I got to grammar school. I got there and all I could see were a sort of blur, a very tall, slim blonde girl from the home counties and, you know, they were talking about Stanislavsky and Jerzy Gratowski. It sounded like people sneezing. I didn't know what was going on.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I did auditioned at Manchester Polly and I was so nervous I was just sick as sick as a dog the whole day through and one of the students showing people in and out of rooms and with a clipboard was this really odd looking very small girl with very small eyes and tons of brown hair who was really funny and then that was the end of the story I didn't get into Manchester Polly and I didn't know who she was and then seven years later I was in a meeting about doing a review at the Shepherd's Bush Theatre and there was another girl there with a lot of dark hair and small eyes and being very funny and we got talking and suddenly did this massive double take and I'd always thought about her I'd thought about her in the intervening seven years and I don't know just clicked really we'll talk”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My inexpress music is the violinist Guron Kramer playing a piece by Astor Pietzola because I love tango music, I love violin music, so I'm trying to combine two things in one because I can only choose eight records and this is called Solidad. And it just lowers my heart rate. That's why I play it because it makes me feel relaxed when I hear it.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Brave enough to think that? Yeah, I did. I mean, because although I'm talking about myself as if I was very chaotic, I was, but inside I had very, very serious streak of ambition and a very, very serious belief in myself, actually, if that doesn't sound too conceited. I'm trying to be honest. I did always feel I was very good at something and that I could be very good at being funny. That's what I always felt. And when I sat on my own in this strange house with nobody else around at the piano, I would twist round as if to an audience and do, you know, Rotter and write funny things and play funny things.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm in the right place. I know what I'm doing, which when you haven't known what you're doing and you've always been, you know, people rather despise you for always being in the wrong place or having the wrong socks or not having name tape on your shirt to suddenly be somewhere where your personality is of value. It's just fantastic. I just remember that I just felt comfortable on the stage, that more comfortable than I did off it.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Thank the Lord Rochdale Council. My sister was at school in Rochdale and they had a youth theatre workshop modelled on the theatre workshop and modelled on the other, the National Youth Theatre. And I went when I was 15 and then it looks like the sun came out.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Looking back at that little girl who was shot in sorry, I feel really sorry for her, that's all. You know, I don't want to make it sound like I had an absolutely terrible childhood. I absolutely didn't. I'm fine, but I think she was neglected, really, looking back at her.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I started when I was about seven. My father wrote the names of the notes on the keys with pencil on a piano keys, and then he wrote the names of the notes of the tune of Polly Wally Doodle with pencil on the music. And then he left the room typically. And I just worked it out. And then I was utterly obsessed. Then my next thing I was obsessed with. I was obsessed with the piano and worked it all out until I could play.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“All the time, yeah, reading and reading and reading and writing and working at the piano, and I was doing a lot of other things when I look back now that actually did help me develop as a performer.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I could be funnier than that. I didn't think that. I was sort of envious of all these groups of people that were in a group. You know, there was a horsey group and the girls that went out with boys and they were the clever ones. And I did a lot of observing. I mean, the good thing about being isolated is you get a really good look at what goes on”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Try and be funny. No, I wasn't at all. Sometimes I would write things and read them out. That was all. But I was a bit of a misfit, really.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Son will be pleased In primary school. Yeah, I was very clever. Yeah, I was always top of the class then. I couldn't deal with when I went to grammar school that everybody was as clever. I couldn't deal with that and I really, really just went under and didn't do anything, didn't do any work. I didn't have clean clothes. I didn't wash. I was supposed to make my unpacked lunches. I didn't make them. Couldn't do my homework if I hadn't done it, steal somebody else's, if I didn't have any monies, to steal money from people. And it was just a mess. It was a big mess. And I'm not blaming my parents particularly. I just couldn't deal with the things I was asked to do.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My next piece of music is Weather Report It's Birdland and it's not the version that most people know it's the live version which my son decided we should pick that of the two versions and Birdland is great because you can sing along to it and it's very jolly.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source