This week we’re travelling to leafy South London and visiting the glorious home of comedy legend Helen Lederer. Helen is probably best known as a trailblazing stand-up comedian and actress, appearing in such iconic shows as Absolutely Fabulous, Bottom, Girls on Top and Naked Video. But she is also a celebrated novelist and humour writer with her book Losing It nominated for the P. G. Wodehouse Comedy Literary prize. She also founded her own comedy prize CWIP - Comedy Women in Print. We talked to Helen about breasts in 1970s literature, the Four Marys, embarrassing teenage diaries and the power of funny women.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood
Nina Stibbe - Reasons To Be Cheerful
Nina Stibbe - Love Nina
Helen Lederer - Losing It
Muriel Spark - The Driver’s Seat
Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady
Leslie Thomas - Tropic of Ruislip
Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary
Susan Jeffers - Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
Charlotte Mendelson - When We Were Bad
Melissa Broder - The Pisces
Annabelle Gurwitch - I See You Made an Effort
Noel Streatfeild - The Circus is Coming
Arianna Huffington - Thrive
Laurie Graham - Life According to Lubka
Laurie Graham - Mr Starlight
Laurie Graham - Gone With The Windsors
Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now
Lydia Davis - Can’t and Won’t
Helen Lederer - Coping
Jane Asher - Easy Entertaining
Enid Blyton - Malory Towers In the Fifth
Laurence Olivier - Confessions of an Actor
Helen Lederer - Single Minding
DC Thomson - The Best of Jackie
Sofie Hagan - Happy Fat
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