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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 252701" data-attributes="member: 23"> An Audience With… Victoria Wood (continued)The disc’s bonus material is interesting. Three of the four interviews are from 1985 - three years before Audience. The fourth is from 1990. Having watched chronologically up until this point, it’s a little startling to watch these out of sync and see the change in Vic in these five years. In that time she’s lost weight, had a makeover, become a mother, performed sellout tours and had a hit TV series. And the Vic we meet in 1990 is far more confident and relaxed. A couple of the interviews look very much like the kind of material she satirised regularly. The stiff interviews, the cheerful daytime presenter and the slightly highbrow aspect. The Glass Box in particular seemed almost too earnest to be for real. It’s not a series I remember and in this context even the opening credits made me laugh. It’s interesting that Vic - even at this early stage of her career - was considered significant enough to warrant an overview in this way. I couldn’t help noticing that the two male interviewers - Clive James and Michael Aspel - both made attempts to “keep up” with Vic by being funny to a degree, whereas the two women didn’t. That reminded me of a comment she made  to that effect in a much later interview (I think it was Dawn French’s Funny Women episode on Vic).Whereas Aspel came across like he was trying too hard, the Clive James interview had quite a fun chemistry and was genuinely funny, covering a lot of ground. The Clive James segment led me to seek out the rest of the programme on YouTube. Peter Cook appeared alongside Vic and said something which will make [USER=21]@Barbara Fan[/USER] get her shotgun out. But I'll post about that in the Dallas forum.</blockquote>[/QUOTE]

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