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The types of people who gathered daily to watch Neighbours are the same who backed Tony Blair in 1997.
Eastenders: Phil Mitchell has ongoing issues with alcohol abuse.
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Storylines warning of the dangers of alcoholism had more of a lasting effect than more formal health education.
Barbara Windsor as Peggy Mitchel in the BBC soap opera Eastenders.
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Barbara Windsor was the Cockney queen of EastEnders but you’re more likely to hear her famous accent in Essex now rather than London.
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Climate change is mentioned in British television about as often as zombies.
Sarah Lancashire (left) stars in the Channel 4 drama, Kiri.
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A new Channel 4 drama has drawn criticism from social workers for its representation of the profession.
Robbie Coltrane as Paul Finchley.
Channel 4
New television series chillingly echoes the Jimmy Savile case – and how the public reacted.
‘I’m sorry honey, there may be no way back.’
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It has been 30 years since EastEnders arrived on UK screens to begin chronicling the lives of the denizens of fictional Albert Square in east London. But the history of soap operas goes back a great deal…