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[RTKangaSANTAMummy]

SUNDAY 10 DECEMBER





Drama

Housewife, 49

9:00pm - 11:00pm

ITV1 London




VIDEO Plus+: 3316
Subtitles, audio description, widescreen





Although Victoria Wood wrote and stars in this drama, it is by no means typical Wood fare, and anyone who tunes in expecting warm wit and gently surreal humour will most certainly be wrong-footed. Wood is Nella Last, trapped in stultifying marriage to a cold, austere man to whom she and her grown-up sons routinely refer as daddy (Shameless's David Threlfall). It's the early days of the Second World War in Barrow-in- Furness, Cumbria, and downtrodden, timid Nella is recovering - not well - from a nervous breakdown. But she unlocks her personality and broadens the horizons of her small life when she starts to keep a diary for the government's Mass Observation programme. Once you've grasped the fact that this isn't Acorn Antiques, it becomes a gently beguiling drama, full of warmth and humanity. It's also packed with formidable female characters, notably the magnificent Stephanie Cole as the head of the local Women's Voluntary Service, where Nella begins to find a life of her own.

RT reviewer - Alison Graham



Nella Last - Victoria Wood


Will Last - David Threlfall


Cliff Last - Christopher Harper


Arthur Last - Ben Crompton


Dot - Lorraine Ashbourne


Mrs Whittaker - Sally Bankes


Mrs Waite - Stephanie Cole


Mrs Lord - Marcia Warren


Mrs Lynch - Sylvestra Le Touzel


Miss Finch - Wendy Nottingham


Mrs Higham - Jane Lowe


Mrs Mac - Dorothy Atkinson


Evelyn Edwards - Siân Brooke


Madeleine Whittaker - Laura Power


Dr Roger Brierley - Jason Watkins


Jill - Daisy Haggard


Pru - Clare Wille


Dennis - Alan Cox


Godfrey - Hugh Sachs


Mrs Hockey - Georgie Glen


Michael Hockey - Samuel Roukin


Robbie Kilgour - Duncan Barton


Mrs Brierley - Olwen May


Edith - Catherine Skinner


Mr Whittaker - Norman Mills


James Wendchurch - Joseph Kennedy







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[RTKangaSANTAMummy]

bumpity bump

[UCM]

I will be taping it, whilst watching Forrest Gump on t'other side. Okey Doke

[RTKangaSANTAMummy]

OKE DOKE

[JollyOldSaintNikkielas]

I live in Barrow !!!!!!!!!!
There was loads of the filmiing done in the town centre so am looking forward to seeing where I recognise

[RTKangaSANTAMummy]

COOOOOOOOOOOOL

just about 2 start

[JollyOldSaintNikkielas]

Think I know the beach and deffo knew the streets!