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Katy Roberts, Head of Merch and Shops Delivery at Coronation Street, expressed excitement over the "retro" inspired range: "We are thrilled to be collaborating with Joanie on this retro Coronation Street clothing collection. Now they all work so hard they don’t even have time to sit – they just lean if they get a break. I bought chairs for them all when I left but I don’t suppose they get much use. I asked Sue Nicholls [Audrey Roberts] out for dinner one evening and she looked and me and said, ‘Out?! I’ve got to learn me lines.’ Coronation Street celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2010 with a live episode featuring a devastating tram crash. The pandemic has forced a return to the show’s more modest origins, without parties or big stunts. Existing storylines will instead come to a head, including Yasmeen Metcalfe’s trial for attempted murder . Bill Roache will also star in tonight’s pre-recorded anniversary episode, which he plans to watch at home with his children. Coronation Street has been working on Ryan's storyline with guidance from The Katie Piper Foundation and Acid Survivors Trust International (ASTI) , which both offer help and support to real-life survivors.

John Finch (writer then producer 1961-1970): The key to everything was Tony Warren’s characters. Nobody, including myself, ever matched his characterisation. But I think he soon got tired and faded away when other writers took over his characters. I think it hurt him. William Roache (Ken Barlow 1960-present): I absolutely didn’t want to do it. I’d grown up in Derbyshire, but I was a young actor on stage in London. I had a flat in Primrose Hill and my career was about to take off. And in those days ITV was broken up into regions so it was like doing local radio. My agent said: “Look at this way, it’s only going to run for a few weeks.”He passed the card to Tony Warren at a long-term story conference. He said: ‘What do you think of having this gay character?’ And Warren – and I’m not making this up – said: ‘Well, if we do there’s only one queen I want to play him and it’s Antony Cotton.” Then he opened the card. He’d seen me in Queer as Folk.

Paul Abbott (script editor/writer 1985-1996): I remember at one point I was getting the blame for all these leaks so I wrote different versions of letters with fake information and left them in the booking table where all the actors got their dates. In one letter it said we were going to film in Barbados and it was in the Manchester Evening News by 5pm. I’d got the greedy little shit! Alastair Campbell ( Downing Street press secretary 1997-2000): The papers were just going crazy with “Free Deirdre” and I thought: “Sod it, let’s get on this.” Iain MacLeod: We don’t have Netflix budgets and nor should we. We should carry on focusing on character and story and being relevant to what’s going on outside people’s front windows. Philip Lowrie: We all became very good friends. I remember Margot Bryant [who played Minnie Caldwell] sitting in the rehearsal rooms doing a bit of knitting. She had a mouth on her – she was one of the rudest women and could tell a story like nobody. Her sister Joan had danced with Fred Astaire. My happiest memory was the first day when through the double doors came the most beautiful girl I think I ever saw. It was Anne, who played my sister Linda. The Battersbys had been trailed as “the family from hell”, with Danson cast as a wild child. Audiences hated them so much that 97% of people in a Teletext poll voted to have them evicted.

Hayley Cropper (nee Patterson) arrived on the street in 1998 as a rare trans character in a popular drama. Soon, Tony Warren, together with the writer Daran Little , guided the Street’s belated embrace of gay characters, 40 years after gay men had tacitly inspired his scripts. Sally Ann Matthews: This whole year has proved how important Coronation Street still is. I’m a huge telly addict and love to binge, but this year we’ve all been at home so much, with so much choice, and in such a stressful world it’s reassuring to turn on the TV and know that Corrie is still there. Critics were divided. The Daily Mirror columnist Ken Irwin said the show was “doomed from the outset”. Mary Crozier of the Guardian was more positive, writing: “Mr Warren has pinpointed phrase and accent, humour and oddity, and if he can keep the mixture sharp and not put in too much treacle, it should cook up very well.” Antony Cotton: When Sean burst on to the street there wasn’t a character like him. People said it was a stereotype, like John Inman in Are You Being Served?. But for me he wasn’t a stereotype – he was an archetype that a lot of people hadn’t seen.

Iain MacLeod (researcher, writer 2006-2013; series producer 2018-present) : It was a very frank debate, and has been a catalyst for meaningful and fairly sizeable shifts that will be coming soon. I sometimes get letters from people saying: “Everyone on my street is white – why can’t Coronation Street be white?” But I think we have a duty to almost over-represent so we reflect every corner of the British experience. Noreen Kershaw (Tracy Spencer 1975; director 1996-2001): Tony and I used to speak on the phone every day. He’d tell me stories of how hard it was as a young gay man in Manchester in the early days, so I know that for him to be able to place characters like this into normal life on the show made him so proud. Part of that experience has been dealing with the Covid pandemic. Last week, the MP Tracy Brabin , who played Tricia Armstrong on the Street in the 1990s , led an hour-long adjournment debate in tribute to Coronation Street and its impact – and the work to keep it on screen under social-distancing rules. “It is a real shame that at the end of this debate, we cannot have that haunting melody of Coronation Street playing,” the deputy speaker, Nigel Evans , said in his closing remarks. William Roache: The fact there isn’t a tight community on the Street today reflects the fact you don’t get streets like that any more.While there will be public events, parties and even a Coronation Concert taking place over the course of King Charles' coronation long weekend (which includes a bank holiday on Monday 8 May,) if you're after a keepsake to remember the occasion for years to come, you may be looking for Coronation memorabilia to mark the historic event. Whether you want to keep a souvenir for yourself or want to show it to your children and grandchildren in years to come, you may be after a piece to remind you of this monumental event in history. In the first episode, Elsie Tanner (Pat Phoenix) tells her son Dennis to get a job and is rude about her daughter Linda’s legs: “I’m afraid you’ve got the Tanner side of the family to thank for that. Yer know, without a word of a lie, yer grandma Tanner were that bandy she couldn’t have stopped a pig in an entry.” From the very beginning, the class snobbery that Warren fought against in 1960 has hung over the mythical squares, closes and streets of Britain’s soaps.

This t-shirt is everything you've dreamed of and more. It feels soft and lightweight, with the right amount of stretch. It's comfortable and flattering for all. Daran Little: It took me two years to convince a largely straight, male writing team to bring in openly gay characters. I think it was just the fear of the unknown. Coronation Street narrowly survived the threat of closure in 1968. The writing deteriorated in the early 1970s and the show risked becoming an anachronism or, worse, a joke. Rescue came with Bill “the Godfather” Podmore , an RAF pilot turned director who took over as producer in 1976. Feared yet respected, Podmore restored Warren’s brand of humour, reviving the Ogdens as a comedic act. A new golden era lasted into the 1980s, when audiences would often top 20 million.Abbott, who declines to name the leak, was a wide-eyed 24-year-old when he got a script-editing job on the Street, years before he created Touching Evil, State of Play and Shameless. Antony Cotton (Sean Tully 2003-present ): My part didn’t exist until I wrote to the then producer Tony Wood. I found a blank card with a picture of a dog with sunglasses on it, and wrote: “Dear Tony, if you ever fancy having a homosexual skipping down the cobbles of Coronation Street, I’m your man. I’ve got my house, my own car, I don’t do drugs and best of all I’m cheap. Come on Tony, you know you want it.” Antony Cotton: I used to have lunch once a month with Tony at the Midland hotel and he’d tell me about these amazing women he’d written for and who they were based on. And there were the old battle axes he’d grown up with, but a lot of it was the men who’d been on the scene in the 50s and 60s.