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Victoria Wood

lines on the record: 61
first: 2007-12-23
most recent: 2007-12-23
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“No, we never talked about anything. We never talked about anything. No, no, no, no. Because she had an eating problem as well. I'm quite sure. She was always on a diet all the time or overeating one of the two.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I think she'd move from a normal busy street to this rather windswept, bleak house. And I think she couldn't quite extricate herself. She couldn't say actually, we've made a mistake. And I think looking back now, I think she was depressed for a lot of the time I was a child”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It wasn't miserable, but it was quite isolated, and it didn't help me learn to get on with people, really. My mother was very depressed and didn't really want to talk, but my father really loved working and was out working all the time if he wasn't working. He was in the house writing, and their interest was not in their children, really.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it was an obsessive reader, more than an obsessive eater, I think. I did reading more than anything. I couldn't really bear to be conscious with air to book. I'm not so bad now. I can't actually, you know, look people in the eye and have a life, but for years it was very much print-based.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I was, I was. I used to go to other people's houses. I was amazed at the, you know, that the house wasn't full of junk like our house was absolutely crammed with books and things that my mother would get off bombsights and things that she would buy from second-hand shops. And she didn't like housework, which I absolutely don't blame her for. So it wasn't a spic and span sort of house. She was obsessed with reading and I was obsessed with reading.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, food wasn't made after a certain point I used to make my own food and just take things in a lay ate all the time because I had a huge eating problem so I used to eat from the minute I got out of school really to when I went to bed.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I suppose it was from the age of five I lived in a massive bungalow on the top of a hill on the moors on the Rosendale Valley, a house that had been an anti aircraft base that my mother had partitioned at random with pieces of plywood. She had actually done it. Yes, she did herself by dragging bits of plywood off bombsights and lashing them to the top of a minivan and driving them home and making rooms out of them. So it had lots and lots of rooms, which meant we could all be, there were four of us, four children, we could all have separate rooms, which is perhaps our mother's intention, I don't know, but after a certain point we never really sat around the table. I had a room that had a piano and a television and books, which is really all I needed. I used to bring food in. And that was it. And we were just thought on our own.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My first piece music is my hero, Randy Newman, who I think writes such brilliant beautiful music. In fact, I stopped writing songs a few years ago because he had written so such good songs, I thought really, as long as he's writing really good songs, I don't need to write any songs. His songs are much better than mine, and I stopped for a bit and I only started writing again when I was writing a musical. So I just find him very moving. And although he can write very complicated tunes, this song Marie is very, very simple.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The newspapers and everybody was. Yes Of attention, are you happy with that? Yeah, yes, obviously you go into television or show businesses because you like attention. I don't want to pretend I don't enjoy it. I was really happy to be on the front page of the newspapers with my two BAFTAs. And then the next day, I didn't think about it. When I was very happy that night to have won for that show, it's just a nod to say that you did achieve something.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She was a middle aged house while she was forty nine at the start of the war she had what was obviously or seemingly obviously difficult marriage that they were a little bit estranged her husband was very buttoned up she says actually in the diary that they don't sleep together they sleep in separate rooms and at the beginning of the war it seems like her life has almost come to a close she's had one nervous breakdown she's worried that she might have another and yet the war liberates her. Obviously that wasn't Hitler's purpose in invading Poland and liberating Nell alas but I think it was liberating for a lot of women at that time who didn't expect to do anything other than look after their husbands.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I didn't do it specifically to be different. I was very attracted to the diary of Nella Last, which was published in the early 80s after she died. And when I was asked to do something for Granada, I thought, oh, maybe this would make a good drama, I thought.”
2007-12-23 · Desert Island Discs · Victoria Wood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source