Housewife 49 PT1/9- Victoria Wood

Award winning writer and performer Victoria Wood (Dinnerladies, Acorn Antiques, Pat and Margaret) has written and stars in her first ITV drama for 25 years set in a wartime northern English town.

Housewife, 49 is based on the real diary of a Lancashire housewife and follows Nella Last\'s struggles to recover from a nervous breakdown, a difficult marriage and the realisation that her two sons are now grown up and no longer need her.

Nella joins the local Women\'s Voluntary Service, run by Mrs Waite (Stephanie Cole - Doc Martin, Back Home, Tenko) and Mrs Lord (Marcia Warren - The All Together, Murder In Suburbia,) and the companionship and sense of purpose she finds there gives her the joy and energy that is missing from her difficult marriage.

As her relationship with her husband goes through painful changes, Barrow suffers its own blitz and Nella, happily ensconced with her WVS chums.

Nella realises war is not the stuff of newsreels, there are no heroics, no Vera Lynn. It\'s about a woman in her kitchen scribbling on bits of paper with a stubby pencil, trying to find the courage to face up to what she really is.

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[gicandido]

No problem : )

amazing film !!

The book must be really nice!

[mrgodbehere]

Great stuff. can I also urge you to read the fabulous Nella Last's Diaries on which this is inspired. A fantastic and much more realistic representation of life in England WW2 than 99% of other films/writings.

[MRwonderman1]

Oh Great! Thanks for the upload!!! I know where this is now and will look forward to watching it again!

[mindset43]

@dayamsta - I grew up late 1940's-50's and life didn't really start to change in UK until 1960's when all the clubs opened and groups such as Rolling Stones played at our art college dances. Good times back then, a lot simpler, more fun, less complicated.

[dayamsta]

@mindset43 oh is that the books that this is based on?i love new book suggestions especially ones on this era?

[mindset43]

Thanks for posting - am just reading "Nella Last in the 1950's" after "Nella Last's War" - prefer the books but this is also lovely.

[Kamon1]

I'm just wondering why no-one's speaking with a Barrovian accent

[Lor3tta1]

thanks for losing. :)

[transmissionends64]

This is wonderful. Absolutely love the fab Victoria Wood. She has an amazing ability to be hilarious and poignant. I taped this myself when it was on Australian tv and have watched it many times.

[natty12344]

Im from barrow and it seems weired seeing what it would have looked like in the war!

xxx