“Let’s Do It” by Jasper Rees (2020)

“She had an adoring female audience long before she drew her first breath.”

There are few people I admire and adore more than Victoria Wood. To my money, the funniest writer we ever had, and probably ever will. After forty years in the spotlight, she died aged 63 – far too young – leaving behind a body of work that would be impressive at a tenth of the size, and more ideas that we would never get to see. She was one of those who died in 2016, the year many of our cultural touchpoints left us, bu...