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Housewife, 49 is a film of genre Drama directed by Gavin Millar with Victoria Wood

Housewife, 49 (2006)

Housewife, 49
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Housewife, 49 is a 2006 television film based on the wartime diaries of Nella Last. Written by and starring English actress and comedienne Victoria Wood, it follows the experiences of an ordinary housewife and mother in the Northern English town of Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire during the Second World War. It was first broadcast in the UK by ITV on 10 December 2006.

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The Mass-Observation project was set up in 1937 by Charles Madge, a poet and journalist and Tom Harrison, an anthropologist to 'record the voice of ordinary people'. They recruited volunteer 'observers' to report to them and in 1939 invited people to send them an account of their lives. Nella Last was one of 500 people who took up this offer. Nella Last's war page vi. Her diaries sent weekly are headed "Housewife, 49", her age when she first began the correspondence. Nella Last's War page ii. Her diaries to Mass-Observation, often written in pencil, provide the narrative of the play as it unfolds her life. Edited versions of her diary have been published: Nella Last's War edited by Richard Broad and Suzy Fleming appeared first in 1981 and has been more recently re-published by Profile Books in 2007. Housewife, 49 is based on this book which covers the years 1939–45. Nella Last's Peace, which appeared in 2009, includes diary entries from her immediate post-war years. A third volume, Nella Last in the 1950s: Further diaries of Housewife, 49 which includes material not published in Nella Last's War was published in 2010.

Actors

Victoria Wood

(Nella Last)Stephanie Cole

(Mrs Waite)Sylvestra Le Touzel

(Mrs Lynch)David Threlfall

(Will Last)Ben Crompton

(Arthur Last)
And :
Marcia Warren
Lorraine Ashbourne
Jason Watkins
Dorothy Atkinson
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