Babs (on telephone): Acorn Antiques, can I help you? Gainsborough's Blue Boy? Yes, I think we have it in mauve, I'll just check.
Flips over blank bits of paper.
Yes, we do; shall I pop it under the counter for you? Not at all, bye!
Victoria Wood was one of...
In the five years since Victoria Wood's death, one great sadness has been the realisation that we'll never again be surprised by new material from her.
But now, as part of the research for the Sunday Times bestselling and critically acclaimed biography Let's Do It, her official biographer, Jasper Rees...
"I was born with a warped sense of humour and when I was carried home from being born it was Coronation Day and so I was called Victoria but you are not supposed to know who wrote this anyway it is about time I unleashed my pent-up emotions in a...