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    Sixty years of Corrie

    Jun 12, 2020 3 minutes

    With over 10,000 episodes broadcast, featuring more than 5,000 characters, it’s likely you’ll recognise some of the faces on the latest stamps from Royal Mail, even if you don’t tune in to the popular soap for every episode.

    First broadcast on 9 December 1960, the drama set in the fictional Lancashire town of Weatherfield quickly became the most popular programme on British television, as viewers tuned in to catch up with the lives of characters such as Elsie Tanner (played by Pat Phoenix), Ena Sharples (Violet Carson), and Minnie Caldwell (Margot Bryant). Today, the

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