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Julie Walters At The BBC
Dame Julia Mary Walters DBE, known professionally as Julie Walters, is celebrating her 75th birthday with a phenomenal list of outstanding performances on stage and the big and small screen.
In Dame Julie’s many decades of BBC interviews and appearances, we will hear about her family and early life in Birmingham, her first career in nursing, followed by her debut at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, where she met Alan Bleasdale and Willy Russell, who would change her life with roles in Boys from the Blackstuff and Educating Rita. Film appearances followed in Buster, Billy Elliot, Harry Potter, Calendar Girls, Mamma Mia, Paddington and Wild Rose, as well as portrayals of Mo Mowlam, Mary Whitehouse and the mother of the main character in G.B.H. All these roles are discussed.
In this new compilation, our list of contributors, alongside Julie herself, includes her late friend and closest collaborator Victoria Wood, Sir Billy Connolly, Dame Helen Mirren, Sir Michael Caine, Robert Lindsay, Michael Angelis, Tom Georgeson, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Jessie Buckley, Michael Ball, Marian Foster, Steve Wright, Richard Easter, Janice Long, Mark Lawson, Sue McGregor, Simon Mayo, Victoria Derbyshire, Barry Norman and Richard E Grant.
To celebrate her 75th birthday, the much-loved actress talks about her life and career.
As we celebrate her 75th birthday, the much-loved actress Dame Julie Walters talks about her life and varied career on stage and screen in interviews on BBC radio and television.