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  Pat and Margaret (TV,1994) - Pat

  Requiem Apache (TV, 1994) - Mrs

  Bambino mio (TV, 1994) - Alice

  Wide-Eyed and Legless (TV, 1993) - Diana Longden

  Clothes in the Wardrobe (TV, 1993) - Monica

  Just Like a Woman (1992) - Monica

  All Day Breakfast (TV, 1992)

  Julie Walters and Friends (TV, 1991)

  Stepping Out (1991) - Vera

  GBH (TV, 1991) - Mrs Murray

  Mack the Knife (1990) - Mrs Peachum

  Victoria Wood (TV, 1989)

  Killing Dad or How to Love Your Mother (1989) - Judith

  Buster (1988) - June Edwards

  Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV (TV, 1985-1987) - Mrs Overall

  Prick Up Your Ears (1987) - Elsie Orton

  Personal Services (1987) - Christine Painter

  Talking Heads (TV, 1987) - Lesley

  Acorn Antiques (TV, 1986) - Mrs Overall

  The Birthday Party (TV, 1986) - Lulu

  The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 (TV, 1985) - Pauline Mole

  Dreamchild (voice, 1985) - Dormouse

  Unfair Exchanges (TV, 1985) - Mavis

  Car Trouble (1985) - Jacqueline Spong

  Love and Marriage (TV, 1984)

  She’ll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas (1984) - Fran

  Educating Rita (1983) - Rita

  Objects of Affection (TV, 1982) - June Potter

  Play for Today (TV, 1978, 1982) - Debbie

  Boys from the Blackstuff (TV, 1982) - Angie Todd

  Wood and Walters (TV, 1982)

  Happy Since I Met You (TV, 1981) - Frances

  Screenplay (TV, 1979, 1981) - Frances

  BBC2 Playhouse (TV, 1981) - Mrs Morgan

  Nearly a Happy Ending (TV, 1981)

  Talent (TV, 1979) - Julie Stephens

  Me! I’m Afraid of Virginia Woolf (TV, 1978)

  Empire Road(TV, 1978) - Jean Watson

  Second City Firsts (TV, 1975)

  Index

  Aberystwyth

  Abigail’s Party

  Acorn Antiques, The Making of

  Acorn Antiques the Musical

  ‘Acorn Antiques’ sketchsee also ‘Overall, Mrs’

  Actorum acting agency

  All About Eve

  All My Sons

  Allen, Woody

  Amsterdam

  Andreyev, Leonid

  Anne, HRH Princess

  Arcachon, France

  Argent, Edward

  Arts Council of Great Britain

  As You Like It

  Ascot

  Ashley, Laura

  Aspel, Michael

  Augustine, Sister

  Australia, publicity tour

  Automobile Association

  Baby Talk

  BA FTA awards

  BA FTA tribute (2003)

  Baldwin, Nigel

  Banbrook, Mrs (teacher)

  Barnsley camping couple

  Bassey, Shirley

  BBC

  Light Programme

  Television

  Beach Boys, the

  Beatles, the

  Beckinsale, Richard

  Bell, Jamie

  Benita (cleaner)

  Bennett, Alan

  Bernard (athletics coach)

  Berney, William

  Beyond Our Ken

  Billy Elliot

  Birds, The

  Birmingham

  Alpha studio

  Bordsley Green, Varna Road

  C&A Modes

  convent preparatory school

  Birmingham—contd

  convent preparatory school—contd

  building and grounds

  desks

  elocution lessons

  miming game

  nuns

  punishment

  uniform

  General Hospital

  Casualty Department

  Hagley Road, Dog Inn and King’s Head

  Ladywood, Ickneild Port Road

  Ladywood, Leebridge Tavern

  New Street station

  nightclubs

  Club Cedar

  La Dolce Vita

  Locarno

  Metro

  Rum Runner

  Queen Elizabeth Children’s

  Hospital

  Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston

  Coronary Care Unit

  men’s medical ward

  men’s surgical ward

  operating theatre

  porter

  staff nurse

  surgical wards

  Queen Elizabeth Hospital School of Nursing

  Birmingham University

  Blackpool

  Empress Drive

  funfair

  Golden Mile

  Imperial Hotel

  Bleasdale, Alan

  Bob (Julie’s first boyfriend )

  Bob & Earl

  Bonanza

  Bond, Chris

  Boyle, Pat

  Boyle, Dermot

  Boyle, Mrs

  Boys from the Blackstuff, The

  Brecht, Bertolt

  Breezeblock Park

  ‘Brenda, Yella-Bellied’

  Brideshead Revisited

  Brighton

  Bristol Old Vic

  British Drama League

  Broadbent, Jim

  Buster

  ‘Butcher, The’ (surgeon)

  C&A Modes

  Cadbury’s

  Caine, Michael

  Caine, Shakira

  Calais

  Calendar Girls

  Cameron, Susan

  Campbell, Ken

  camping couple from Barnsley

  Candid Camera

  Cannonball Run, The

  Cantrill Tales, The

  Car Trouble

  Carlton, Mrs (swimming teacher)

  Carrera’s

  Carson, Johnny

  Castlebar, County Mayo

  cat, Nelly

  cat, Plato

  Cecilia, Sister

  Champion the Wonder Horse

  Chance, Alexander Macomb

  Charleson, Ian

  Charlton Brothers, Coal Merchants

  Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Maple Avenue

  cooking incidents

  plaster cast incident

  pubic hair incident

  trainee solicitor neighbour

  Christie, Agatha

  Christine (best friend)

  and small man in Locarno nightclub

  Churchill, Donald

  City Limits magazine

  Clapton, Eric

  Clare, Auntie

  Claydon, Mr (hospital patient)

  Clyne, Hazel

  Collins, Carole

  Collins, Phil

  Columbia Pictures

  Cook, Ron

  Corfu Harbour

  Coriolanus

  Coronation Street

  Costigan, George

  Cotterell, Richard

  Cox, Brian

  Craig, Wendy

  Creative Artists Agency

  Crossroads

  ‘Daddy’ (poem)

  Daily Mirror

  Daily Telegraph

  Daldry, Stephen

  Dan (agent’s friend)

  Dane, Clemence

  Dark of the Moon, The

  Darling, Peter

  Davies, Rachel

  Davis, Bette

  Denver

  Dick Whittington and his Pussy

  Dickson, Barbara

  dinnerladies

  disease, peripheral vascular

  dog, Babs (Jack Russell)

  dog, Benji (boxer)

  Dolores (caretaker)

  Dossor, Alan

  Driving Lessons

  DT

  (Julie’s first proper boyfriend)

  camping in France

  and plaster cast incident

  trip to Istanbul

  studies for MA in Bristol

  engagement to Julie

>   ‘honeymoon’ in Portugal

  splits up with Julie

  Dublin

  airport

  Trinity College

  Durham, Geoffrey

  Dynasty

  Eckersley, Peter

  Ecstasy

  Edinburgh, HRH Duke of

  Educating Rita

  publicity tour

  Edwards, Buster

  Edwards, June

  Elmer Gantry

  Emanuel, Elizabeth and David

  Emmerdale

  Equity

  Eskdale

  Eve, Trevor

  Evers, Jane

  Exorcist, The

  Fahy, Kate

  Farmer’s Weekly

  Fielding, Fenella

  Film ’86:

  Fiske, Alison

  Flash Harry (pub show)

  Folkestone

  Fool for Love

  Forbes, Mrs (teacher)

  Forsythe, John

  Four Tops, the

  France, camping in

  Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune

  Freeman, Hardy & Willis

  French, Dawn

  From Here to Eternity

  Funny Peculiar

  G (pregnant woman)

  GBH

  Gibson, Mel

  Gilbert, Lewis

  Glad Hand, The

  ‘God Only Knows’

  Golden Globe awards

  Golden Shot, The

  ‘Goldfinger’

  Good Fun

  Good Morning America

  Gorky, Maxim

  Granada Television

  Studios

  Grand Canyon

  Grant (Julie’s husband) see Roffey, Grant

  Great Soprendo (Geoffrey Durham)

  Greece, nude beach

  Griffith, Melanie

  Groundhog Day

  Grundy, Jonathan

  Guardian

  guinea pigs

  Guinea

  Janet

  Robin

  Rosette

  Guinness

  Hall, Lee

  Hall, Peter

  Hancock’s Half Hour

  Happy SinceMet You

  Hardy, Eva

  ‘Harlem Shuffle, The’

  Harry Potter films

  Hartwell, Sister

  Hasty Heart, The

  He Who Gets Slapped

  Heath, Edward

  Hedren, Tippi, and her ranch

  Henfrey, Janet

  Henman (student friend)

  Henney, Del

  ‘Hey, Big Spender’

  ‘Hey Jude’

  Heyman, Norma

  Hill, Bernard

  Hird, Thora

  Hobbit, The

  holidays, childhood

  Hollow, The

  Holly Lodge Grammar School for Girls

  bullying of girl at

  discipline

  Form 3C

  girl in

  Form 5L

  hairstyles

  mid-morning breaks

  ‘Miss Smethwick 1918’ girl

  playing hockey at

  sixth form

  teachers

  basketball

  sixth form

  unpopular male

  with Edna Everage glasses

  uniform

  White Tornados basketball team

  Hollywood see Los Angeles

  Holyhead and Anglesey Chronicle

  home, family (NoBishopton Road)

  attic room

  ‘back place’

  bathroom

  brothers’ bedroom

  front room

  garage

  garden

  Julie’s bedroom

  kitchen

  mangle

  pantry

  parents’ bedroom

  radio

  scullery

  sitting room

  sofa

  stairs

  yard

  Horton, Robert (as ‘Flint McCullough’)

  Howard, Trevor

  Hughes, Dusty

  Hutchinson, Ron

  ‘I Love to Boogie’

  ‘I Remember You’

  ‘I Want to be Fourteen Again’

  Ifield, Frank

  Ignatius, Sister

  Igoumenitsa, Greece

  Imrie, Celia

  In at the Death (evening of playlets)

  ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’

  Intensive Care

  Ireland, west coast

  Irishman in nightclub

  Isley Brothers, the

  ‘Isn’t She Lovely’

  Istanbul

  Jackman, Godfrey

  Jackson, Michael

  Jackson, Phil

  Jackson, Mr (hospital patient)

  Jacobs, Paula

  Jagger, Mick

  Jake’s Progress

  Jeff (driver)

  Jesuits

  Jezebel

  John, Elton

  John, Paul, George, Ringo and Bert

  Jones, Terry

  Jones, Tom

  Joseph, Philip

  Juno and the Paycock

  Jupiter, Florida, and Burt Reynolds Dinner Theater

  Kama Sutra

  Kelly, Matthew

  Kelly, Sheila

  Kelly, Miss (insurance office section leader)

  Kent, Florrie

  Kingston, Mark

  Kitzinger, Sheila

  L’Avare

  Lake District

  Lancaster, Burt

  landladies, theatrical

  Lauder, Este’e

  ‘Laughing Policeman, The’

  ‘Layla’

  Lazar, Swifty

  Le Prevost, Nicholas

  Leach, Penelope

  Leicester, Phoenix theatre

  Leigh, Mike

  Leland, David

  Leonard (father’s employee)

  Linda (insurance office colleague)

  Lindsay, Robert

  Lisbon

  Liverpool

  Canning Street

  Cantrell Farm

  Catholic cathedral

  Dock Road

  Everyman Theatre

  Hope Hall

  Hope Street

  Kirkby

  Lloyd, Hugh

  Lloyd, Kevin

  London

  Balham, Oakmead Road

  Balham High Road

  Bush Theatre

  Camden

  Cottesloe Theatre

  Donmar Warehouse

  Fulham, St Dionis Road

  Fulham Boulevard bar

  Garrick Theatre

  Hampstead Theatre Club

  Hyde Park

  Kilburn, Quex Road Catholic church

  Kilburn High Road

  King’s Cross station

  King’s Road

  Langan’s Brasserie

  Le Kilt nightclub

  Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue

  Mermaid Theatre

  National Theatre

  Odeon, Leicester Square

  Oxford Street

  Piccadilly Theatre

  R. Soles shoe shop

  Royal Court Theatre

  Shepherd’s Bush

  Soho see Soho entries

  Trafalgar Square

  Tramp nightclub

  Whitechapel squat

  Whitehall Theatre

  Los Angeles

  Beverly Hills Hotel

  Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

  Hollywood

  Lourdes

  Lucas Electrics

  Macbeth

  MacLaine, Shirley

  Maggie’s Tree (novel)

  Maisie (Julie’s daughter)

  birth of

  name chosen

  Malaysian New Strait Times

  Mamma Mia!

  Manchester see also Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Maple Avenue

  girls’ secondary school

  Granada Studios

  primary school

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  Whalley Range

  Demesne Road

  Manchester Polytechnic (now Metropolitan University)

  Capitol building, Didsbury

  couple from

  Library Theatre

  School of Theatre

  audition

  make-up classes

  studio theatre

  Theatre

  Mancini, Henry

  Manpower Services

  Marat Sade

  March, Rosalind

  Margate

  Marnie

  Marriage of Figaro, The

  Marsden, Roy

  Martin, Andrea

  Mary (Kevin’s best friend’s sister)

  ‘McCullough, Flint’ (Wagon Train character)

  McGinn, Mrs

  Meckler, Nancy

  mentally handicapped girl in factory

  Merrison, Clive

  Miami State Police

  Midler, Bette

  Midsummer Night’s Dream, A

  Mikie (alcoholic recluse)

  Millar, Gavin

  Miller, Arthur

  Minnelli, Liza

  Mirren, Helen

  Mods, fashion

  Molière

  Monroe, Marilyn, poster

  ‘Moon River’

  Morecambe

  Morocco, King of

  Murray, Ruby, lookalike contest

  Navy Lark, The

  Nearly a Happy Ending

  Netherlands, publicity tour

  New York

  Broadway

  Elaine’s restaurant

  La Guardia airport

  Manhattan

  Plaza Hotel

  New Zealand, publicity tour

  Newark airport, New Jersey

  Newman, Paul

  News of the World, The

  Nice, Penelope

  Nicholls, Janice

  Nighy, Bill

  Nora (dresser)

  Norman, Barry

  Now Voyager

  Nunn, Trevor

  nuns

  nursing incidentssee also Walters, Julie: coping with death as nurse

  cutting blood-filled tube

  faulty bedpan washer

  mid-stream urine sample

  washing false teeth

  Oakes, Herbie

  O’Brien, Agnes (Julie’s aunt)

  O’Brien, Bridget (Julie’s grandma)

  younger years

  relationship with Julie’s mother

  and Julie’s father

  health problems

  pigeon incident

  dispatching poultry

  as source of entertainment

  as a playmate

  maiden name written on paper

  death of

  O’Brien, Eileen

  O’Brien, Joe (Julie’s uncle)

  O’Brien, Martin John (Julie’s uncle)

  O’Brien, Maureen

  O’Brien, Patrick (Julie’s grandfather)

  O’Casey, Sean

  Ockrent, Mike

  Old Spice

  Olivier Awards

  Omnibus

  Open University

  opera singer, wig-wearing

  Oscar awards

  Otranto, Italy

  ‘Overall, Mrs’ (Acorn Antiques character)

  Paris, Bois de Boulogne

  Parton, Dolly

  Pat and Margaret

  Patrick, John

  Patten, Brian

  Patterson, Candy