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The Week In Radio: Joan, Jimmy and
Julian know how to lift the spirit
Wednesday 26 December 2012
At the tail end of Christmas Day many of you, like me, will have found yourself reflecting on life’s big questions.
EastEnder is crowned Queen of the Jungle
Sunday 02 December 2012
After three long, trial-filled weeks, Charlie Brooks wins I'm a Celebrity
Brazilian footballer 'fed former lover to his dogs'
Wednesday 21 November 2012
A Brazilian football star has gone on trial for orchestrating what prosecutors claim is the gruesome murder of the mother of his child.
EastEnders star 'put off drinking' playing boozy character
Friday 28 September 2012
EastEnders actress Jacqueline Jossa has revealed that her character's boozy ways put her off drinking in real life.
There's no soft soap from this new avenger
Monday 28 May 2012
US thriller Revenge starts tonight. It's a return to the Eighties, says Sarah Hughes
There's no soft soap from this new avenger
Monday 28 May 2012
US thriller Revenge starts tonight. It's a return to the Eighties, says Sarah Hughes
Jonathan Frid: Star of 'Dark Shadows'
Saturday 21 April 2012
Jonathan Frid,who died yesterday of natural causes at the age of 87, was a Canadian actor best known for playing Barnabas Collins in the 1960s original vampire soap opera Dark Shadows.
'Soap opera' at M&B continues as latest chief executive exits
Thursday 17 March 2011
Adam Fowle, the chief executive of Mitchells & Butlers, is to leave the pub and restaurant group after only two years in the role, perpetuating the image of a corporate "soap opera" and a boardroom with a revolving door.
Editor-At-Large: A little light husband-bashing: just another day in a rotten trade
Sunday 06 November 2005
Soap opera censured
Friday 05 August 1994
THE television soap Emmerdale was yesterday censured again over excessive violence.
Extra soap
Tuesday 29 March 1994
A third weekly episode of the BBC 1 soap opera EastEnders will be broadcast on Monday nights, from 11 April.
Media: Talk of the Trade - 'Sun', sea, soap
Wednesday 26 August 1992
YOU read it here first. On 12 August, when everyone else was writing off the BBC 1 soap Eldorado, William Phillips wrote unfashionably on this page: 'The Sun's page seven lead may yet be: 'Eldo-ratings] No- hope soap races up chart'.' Last Friday, just nine days later, a Sun leader declared: 'Swelldorado] We can't wait for the autumn nights to draw in. Because Eldorado's getting better. The BBC's expensive new soap may not be a flop after all.'
'Eldorado' slips
Wednesday 29 July 1992
Eldorado, the BBC's new pounds 10m soap opera, attracted only 4.4 million viewers for the 17 July episode, and failed to make BBC 1's weekly top 30.
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Man and woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder victim of Woolwich machete attack, named as Drummer Lee Rigby
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'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
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Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are
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Woolwich murder: They killed, then they performed - these men should be starved of our attention
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Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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