Babs (on telephone): Acorn Antiques, can I help you? Gainsborough''s Blue Boy? Yes, I think we have it in mauve, I''ll just check.
Flips over blank bits of paper.
Yes, we do; shall I pop it under the counter for you? Not at all, bye!
Victoria Wood was one of the true comedy greats of her generation, celebrated for her acute skewering of the absurdities of everyday life, from corner shops to candlewick bedspreads, supermarket checkouts to suburban lust.
Chunky contains the complete scripts of Wood''s beloved wobbly-walled spoof soap opera Acorn Antiques, as well as the Kitty monologues ''(My name''s Kitty. I''ve had a boob off and I can''t stomach whelks so that''s me for you.''). It also features daytime television presenters Margery and Joan, Susie the waspish Continuity Announcer, and the unforgettable bus stop stories of Kelly-Marie Tunstall (''I said I''ll tell everyone what happened on Christmas Eve when you
