Tales from the dark side

Material from the BBC’s ‘golden age’ tends to be recalled through a heavily rose-tinted lens. Apart from Fawlty Towers, certain Monty Python skits and a few documentaries, I’m not sure it was all that

BY THE BOOK I’m writing to say how ...

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Nothing much happened in the village DS Dottie Reed was posted to – until a body was found

While Emergency Ward 10 was not Britain’s first “soap opera” (this would be BBC’s The Grove Family from 1954-1957) it was the first medical soap, airing on Tuesdays and Fridays on ITV from 1957. Set i

200 years of Dickens on stage and screen