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Entertainment > TV Genres & Trends A family affair: How the love of a soap opera can span generations

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"I can't believe you watch this rubbish!", my dad would regularly berate my mother and me as we turned on the TV to the soothing melody of the brass band playing that oh so familiar theme tune. How many times over the years have I heard that tune and settled down to watch Coronation Street, to catch up on the goings on chez Duckworth, Platt, Barlow et al., fictional families that I have grown so fond of over so many years.

The changes in my own life can be plotted against the varying crises in that northern neighbourhood. The first time I watched the show was over 27 years ago when I w...

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