Birdie is 75 and lives on a diet of chocolate in a high rise on an East End estate. She longs for the action of her youth when she did her bit in the war. But when the estate erupts in a riot, she finds herself in the thick of it again - just like the night Hitler bombed Beckton gas works. Birdie tells her story with the humour and toughness of a survivor and if you like Alan Bennett's 'Talking Heads', you'll enjoy this.