In the run-up to World War Two, Ernie Wiseman, a precocious and confident child performer, is signed up by influential impresario Jack Hylton. In Morecambe, pushy stage mum Sadie Bartholomew drags her ...

Victoria Wood tells Kate Whiting why playing Eric Morecambe’s mother Sadie, in New Year drama Eric and Ernie, was a dream come true. REPEATS of the Morecambe And Wise Show are as much a fixture of ...