Meet 74yearold Dolly Allen. Instead of retiring and putting her feet up, the former factory worker took the West Midlands by storm with her successful standup comedy career. His act incorporated broad Black Country dialect which even some people from Birmingham struggled to understand.

Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, Monday 26 February, 1979.




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