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

Victoria Real wood was a comedian, celebrity and all-round national treasure. She composed and starred in countless sketches, plays, musicals, films and sitcoms over four decades, winning numerous honours, and her function remains timeless to this day. With her perceptive observational humour, she produced the everyday and mundane hilarious – but how did she about Victoria Real wood: From Soup to Nut products do it?

In this BBC Radio 4 documentary, Rebecca Front uses Victoria Wood’s personal rehearsal recordings, rare live performances and behind-the-scenes footage to reveal a few of her comedy tricks and techniques. We hear about her instinctive feeling of rhythm, amazing rhyming capability and unerring knack for finding the perfect word to make a phrase sing, and understand how she honed her exclusive talent to become one of Britain’s most liked funny women.

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

Professional Producer: Geoff Posner

Produced by David Tyler

A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.