Happy 60th birthday, Coronation Street

[Nearly Sane]

Haven't watched it in years but the theme tune, as Neil Brand covered The Sound of TV, is so evocative.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertainment-arts-55194437

[Aruntraveller]

Haven't watched it in years but the theme tune, as Neil Brand covered The Sound of TV, is so evocative.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertainment-arts-55194437

I also stopped watching regularly a decade ago. It's an achievement, but it isn't the great programme it was even 20 years ago. The music as you note is evocative and thankfully unchanged.

[Steve H]

I've never watched it regularly, but happy 60th, all the same. The UK can boast the world's oldest soap (the Archers, which I listened to unwillingly in the 80s, because my late wife was a fan), the world's oldest TV soap (Coronation Street), and the world's oldest children's programme (Blue Peter). Joke: 'Neighbours' is alternatively known as 'Cobber Nation Street'.

[Roses]

I remember watching the programme from the start, with my Grandmother who was a Lancashire lass. I used to tease her that she was like Ena Sharples without the hairnet. I last watched that soap in the early 90s.

[Robbie]

I watch it when I can & like it, been alternately suspenseful and heartbreaking recently. Some things coming to a climax this week & we all like one of those occasionally.

[Aruntraveller]

I watch it when I can & like it, been alternately suspenseful and heartbreaking recently. Some things coming to a climax this week & we all like one of those occasionally.

Julian Clary as I live and breath