Victoria Wood: From Soup to Nuts Audiobook (Free)

Rebecca Front side presents this two-part appearance back at Victoria Wood’s stand-up and songs using her own archives and tapes – including never-before-heard material

Victoria Hardwood was a comedian, celebrity and all-round national treasure. She composed and starred in countless sketches, has, musicals, movies and sitcoms over four years, winning numerous honours, and her function remains timeless even today. With her perceptive observational humour, she made the everyday and mundane amusing – but how do she about Victoria Real wood: From Soup to Nuts do it?

Within this BBC Radio 4 documentary, Rebecca Front uses Victoria Wood’s personal rehearsal recordings, rare live performances and behind-the-scenes footage to reveal some of her comedy tricks and techniques. We hear about her instinctive feeling of tempo, amazing rhyming ability and unerring knack for locating the ideal word to produce a sentence sing, and learn how she honed her exclusive talent to be one of Britain’s favourite funny women.

With unprecedented usage of Victoria’s own boxes of battered cassette tapes, this programme is a shameless chance to hear some wonderful stand-up comedy, characters and songs, blended with a glance back at what produced her so funny and so universally loved.

Professional Producer: Geoff Posner

Made by David Tyler

A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.