Old Laundry, Bowness-on-Windermere: Victoria Wood's BAFTA award-winning TV play of one woman's wartime experience was based on the diaries of Nella Last, a married mother of two from Barrow-in-Furness who kept an honest and poignant document of her life as part of the Mass Observation archive. Nella's account of her day-to-day life is revealing in its detail, in her occasional feelings of despair, and …
SOURCE: The Stage at 06:25AM on September 16, 2013