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Local Radio,1 min

'I think northern people are different - thank goodness!'

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Victoria Wood told presenter and fellow northerner Russell Harty she believed northern humour was more "dour" and self-deprecating. In this Radio 4 interview from 1985, she said: "I make jokes about myself so that nobody else would".

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