Housewife 49

I just watched the much anticipated drama Housewife 49 - written by and starring Victoria Wood. Is there no end to this woman's talent?

Over the past 20+ years she's been the most unique stand up comedian & entertainer - observing the minutae of life and recounting them in her anecdotes, not forgetting also putting them in song accompanying herself on the piano. Some might remember her from That's Life in the early 1980's.


Wood - creator of Acorn Antiques (musical) and the Oscar nominated film Pat & Margaret (with Julie Walters) has scored another hit in my book. Pity it spread such a deep subject so thinly.

Housewife 49 is her screenplay based on the diary's of Nella Last - a housewife from Barrow-In-Furness. Set during the second world war. The story centres around the humdrum life of Nella and her family and how she responded to the war which made her more outgoing a person. This could so easily have been a six part series, but maybe it's for the better that it leaves the viewing wanting more.

Her previous TV outing was the brilliant over-too-soon comedy series set in a factory canteen - Dinnerladies. She'll soon be a dame I warrant it.