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My hero: Victoria Wood by AL Kennedy

Written By Unknown on Thursday, April 21, 2016 | 12:34 PM

A writer with an exemplary, generous eye, she was transgressive, warm, intelligent, surreal and bloody funny – she could gently overturn the world

You may be old enough to remember when Victoria Wood appeared on New Faces on ITV. It was 1974 and Wood was transgressive, warm, intelligent, subversive, joyous, surreal and bloody funny. My gran knew she was funny, my mum knew she was funny, I knew she was funny. Everyone did. For more than four decades she gave us that: the unforeseen, triumphant joy of real comedy, heart and mind.

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