Rory Bremner asks what diaries can offer to history. Rory looks at the diaries of various people, but this 20 minute section of the show relates to Victoria Woods play called Housewife 49, (2006 - see below) based on Nelly Last's diary as part of the Mass Observation project during the second world war.

Interviewed by Melvyn Bragg for the third time on the show - something very few people acheive. Includes clips from her many shows and current (2010) interview.

New for 2009 featuring new sketches (Lark Pies over Cranchesterford / Midlife Olympics)

Victoria explains the making of various scenes in Midlife Christmas.

Documentary about Victoria with clips and new interviews from herself, friends and collegues. New for 2009. Shown Xmas 2009.

In this reflective travelogue, Victoria Wood takes on the task of visiting the far-flung reaches of Queen Victoria's British Empire.

From India to Borneo, from Ghana to Hong Kong, Jamaica and many places between, Wood combines thoughts on Britain’s imperial past with modern-day postcards from former colonies.

She explains the origins of the British Empire and the importance of its trade relationships in a clear and entertaining way.

Dawn French interviews Victoria Wood for her series about female comedians.

Interviewed by Melvyn Bragg for the second time on the show - something very few people acheive. Includes clips from her many shows.

The 1940s are caringly recreated for this series in which Victoria Wood, who also wrote the drama, plays it straight as a Lancashire housewife struggling to recover from a nervous breakdown, a difficult marriage and the realisation that her two sons are now grown up and no longer need her.

She finds companionship and a sense of purpose when she joins the Women's Voluntary Service and also in her diary, which she keeps as a volunteer for the Mass Observation Archive.

Based on the real-life diary of Nella Last, a housewife from Barrow-in-Furness.

This show traces the actors involved in Victoria's work on stage and TV. Dinnerladies Family Tree.

Dawn French interviews Victoria for her series about female comedians.

Bonus Material :

5 scenes where Victoria plays Mrs Overall
instead of Julie Walters.

Harking back to the classic BBC Christmas comedy specials of yesteryear, the show features a star-studded cast.

The show takes a typically idiosyncratic canter through a dream set of telly programmes for Christmas Day.

Thus we get expertly played skits of A Christmas Carol (with Delia Smith as the cook); Brassed Off (in which Tony Blair solves the North/South divide by declaring everything The South); Brief Encounter (Parky as the station master, with a side order of drugs and lesbianism); a regency romantic drama (with the line "could you not stick your hand in your muff?") and lots more.

What makes the production a true cut above, however, is the linking theme that takes a blatant pot shot at the modern BBC, or as Wood sees it...BBC Upmarket, BBC Downmarket, BBC Newmarket (for racing), BBC Makeover, BBC Takeover etc.

This is funny, cutting and achingly on the ball about the state of modern television

The show is set entirely in the canteen of HWD Components, a fictional factory in Manchester, featuring the caterers and regular customers as the main characters. The inner lives and social interactions of the mostly female, mostly middle-aged characters are vividly and amusingly depicted.

The show is set entirely in the canteen of HWD Components, a fictional factory in Manchester, featuring the caterers and regular customers as the main characters. The inner lives and social interactions of the mostly female, mostly middle-aged characters are vividly and amusingly depicted.

Part of Great Railway Journeys which featured a different persona each week. This is episode 1 of series 2.

Victoria Wood travels by train through Northern England and Scotland.

Broadcast on Christmas Day on BBC1 (not available on DVD - TV broadcast only), this spoof of Breakfast TV (intercut with typical sketches) parodies real TV presenters Richard & Judy (Wood and Duncan Preston) to great effect.

The follow up to Acorn Antiques spoof The Mall is here complete and ends with Mrs Overall opening up a new shop; what could it be?

This is live stand up routine from The Mayflower Theatre, Southampton.

Unexpected events occur over a long weekend when Pat, a glamorous British born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain, fat and frumpy younger sister.

The meeting is painful for both sisters highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with their uncaring mother.

Stand-up routine for an invited celebrity audience.

This version was recorded from TV to VHS and includes the adverts.

Stand-up routine for an invited celebrity audience.

This version was recorded from TV to dvd-r and I've edited out the adverts.

A compilation from her TV show of the same name.

Includes songs, sketches and all the regulars.

Victoria Wood Live at the Albert Hall provides proof, if any were needed, that after two decades at the top of her profession, Wood is one of a small handful of British comedians of either sex capable of filling the country's largest venues.

For the consistently high quality of her penetrating observations of the mundane she has no equal.

Recorded in 2001, this performance has all the hallmarks of her microscopic examinations of life's perplexing minutiae and trivia. From her recent hysterectomy to Paul Daniels, from the NHS help line to wheelie bin covers, from Americans in Disneyworld to the ageism of catalogue mailing lists, nothing escapes Wood's attention. Not even in-vogue authors: she refuses to read "Captain Corelli's friggin' Mandolin" as it sits reproachfully at her bedside.

Wood even provides her own interval act: a devastatingly accurate parody of a vulgar, second-rate cabaret singer shot to stardom on the wings of a cruise ship docu-soap. Jane McDonald's sense of humour will never face a harder test.

More poignant are Wood's observations on parenthood and marriage, with all the physical ailments of middle age ("We've only got one fully operating leg between us").

She has since separated from her husband, the magician Geoffrey Durham. Fans will await the impact of that on her stand-up material with some interest.