“I will not have chutney on my periodicals!”

Join us to enjoy Victoria Wood’s “The Library”. A viewing and discussion of the legendary comedian’s short play, first broadcast in 1989. Victoria Wood Presents was a series of half-hour single playlets broadcast in primetime on BBC 1 in the closing weeks of 1989 in. In The Library Victoria plays a version of herself coming up against a variety of unpromising situations.

We see local libraries represented as vital community hubs; places of order and refuge which are used as a springboard for self-improvement. Victoria Wood expert and superfan Philip Tipton is a lecturer in English Language at The University of Salford. In this event, he will be talking with you about the centrality of local and civic life in the comedy of Victoria Wood and what Wood’s comedic wisdom has to tell us about popular culture in contemporary society.