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ally Lindsay spent five years on Coronation Street. Until 2006, she played Rovers Return barmaid Shelley Unwin, who, in 759 episodes, managed a bigamous marriage, then a relationship with an abusive man who had slept with her mother. She left him at the altar but, having got pregnant, she escaped to manage a nice country pub and raise her daughter in the Peak District.

Yes, it was good to leave when she did, Lindsay tells the Listener from her London home via Zoom, sounding like a woman who did her time in the soap opera trenches.

“It was so

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