'They feel like comedy’s Dead Sea Scrolls' Eighty of Victoria Wood’s previously unseen scripts are to be released this autumn. News of the new book, released with the blessing of her estate, comes five years to the day after the comedian died at the age of 62. The scripts were discovered by writer Jasper Rees while he was researching her biography, Let’s Do It, which was released last year. He first spoke of unearthing the treasure trove of material when he appeared at the Chortle Comedy Book Festival in November, saying: ‘When she wrote Wood and Walters [her breakthrough TV show], she wrote exactly the number of sketches which were needed, and she was very unhappy because a lot of it wasn’t very good.