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Feisty! And fabulous.
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And that's true. # My diamonds leave with you... #
NARRATOR, JOANNA LUMLEY: 'Coronation Street.
Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX
'For six glorious decades,
'a small cobbled street in Manchester
'has been entertaining the world.'
Mind your own business, fatty!
Will you shut your face!
LAUGHTER
Oh, my God, I wouldn't mess with her!
'Tonight, we relive some of Weatherfield's finest moments.'
SCREAMING
Oh, gosh, my heart's going now!
'From the hard-hitting...' Oof!
COMMOTION
There's some violence in the show!
You wouldn't want to live there, would you?
That was back in the day, when we were allowed to hit each other.
I love you!
'..to the heartbreaking.'
I've got breast cancer.
It's quite hard to watch, this!
SHOOTING, GLASS SHATTERING
'With a dash of dramatics...'
The hairs on the back of my neck are standing up.
THUMP
WAVES CRASHING Come on, sailor.
Oh, she's such a glamourpuss!
'..and throw in some comedy gold.
'60 years of Coronation Street.'
That's a classic scene! GLASS DINGS
'So join us as we celebrate the diamond jubilee...'
Good times! Good times.
'..of the world's longest-running soap.'
It does not get better than that!
To Coronation Street! CHEERING AND WHOOPING
'With a cast of 87 characters
'and six brand-new episodes every week...'
They're knocking down half of Coronation Street.
'..Coronation Street's dramas are watched by millions.'
It's me. DOOR SLAMS
Yeah, listen. Drop whatever you're doing,
grab the nearest suitcase and start packing!
I'm booking two tickets for Cyprus.
Just tying up some loose ends.
Yeah, unfinished business.
'Its origins, however, were a little more humble.
'It all began in the 1960s,
'as the Beatles were putting Liverpool on the map...'
# He painted Salford's Smokey tops...#
'..a young Lancashire lad was about to do the same for Manchester.
# And parts of Ancoats Where I used to play... #
I'm Mrs Sharples. I'm very pleased to meet you.
'Tony Warren's inspiration
'for characters like Ena Sharples, Annie Walker and Elsie Tanner
'came, he said, from growing up surrounded by strong women.'
He loved working-class women, and he just must have observed
and decided to write about them.
I remember hearing that he used to sit under his mum's table
making notes, listening to them gossip.
I'm the caretaker at the Glad Tidings Hall.
Oh, that's just across the street, in't it?
What's your place of worship?
I don't really do much about it. Oh, I know.
He caught the rhythms of speech of those women.
When we first meet Ena Sharples in the corner shop,
she talks very, very quickly, she talks with a certain kind of rhythm.
Within a week, they were received, christened and confirmed,
and within a fortnight,
she was up all night sewing surplices.
And changes subject on a... on a flick.
I'll take a packet of baking powder.
He would always give her a different view.
He had a sort of lateral way of thinking
and in any situation you put forward,
he would give you a fresh approach to it.
He had a very interesting mind.
'At just 24, Tony created a cast of characters
'inspired by the people that he'd grown up with,
'his first vision of them clear in his original scripts.'
And they are so amazingly well-drawn.
Are you lot ready? We're all outside.
READS: "Ena Sharples, 70s,
"small, with a crabby walnut of a face
"and flashing eyes."
"One minute, she's a poor old woman,
"the next, a screeching fiend."
Good description.
Bandy-legged? Me? Who are you calling bandy-legged?!
Oh, come along now, Ena, you know you haven't had your pills.
"Elsie Tanner, late 40s..."
You what?
"..with the very battered
"and much-painted-over remains of good looks."
'Ey, Elsie, you're just about ready for the knacker yard.
What a magnificent woman.
"Kenneth Barlow, 20, a Cambridge undergraduate."
And how's our local genius, then? "Sometimes arrogant."
"He's basically likeable."
I think Bill's spot-on there.
It's only acting. SHE LAUGHS
'Tony's clearly-drawn characters leapt from the page
'and came to life on the studio floor...'
TV PRESENTER: 'Today, our props are for Coronation Street.'
'..where what would become a very familiar set was taking shape.
'Not willing to commit fully at this stage,
'Granada TV bosses only green-lit an initial 13 episodes
'of Coronation Street.
'It was a huge leap of faith.
'And so, at 7pm on 9th December, 1960, TV history was made...'
The sound is perfect now, thanks a lot.
'..as Coronation Street broadcast its first episode... live.'
CORONATION STREET THEME PLAYS
Look!
GIRLS CHANT WHILE PLAYING
This was the first working-class drama on television.
Now, the next thing you've got to do is to get a sign-writer in.
That thing above the door'll have to be changed.
It's funny having me name over me own shop.
Florrie Lindley.
You know how it is when you come to a new street,
you don't know anyone, or what to look out for.
Oh, Coronation Street's all right.
Mind, there's some you'll have to watch.
'And watch they did.
'Within three months,
'Coronation Street had made the top ten in the TV ratings.
'It was, officially, a hit.'
Whoomph, it just took off.
And Mr Walker and I think we should celebrate with champagne on us. Ooh!
CHEERING
Watching these old classic scenes,
it's like a little bit of a Corrie history lesson,
which is nice to see.
The landscape in British television in 1960 was quite bare.
The stories that were being told.
POSH ACCENT: Everything came from Alexandra Palace,
and there was a sort of decorum when one spoke.
The shows were there to really educate rather than entertain.
For a lot of Northern, working-class people,
it was the first time that they'd ever felt properly seen
and represented.
For people to go, "'Ey up, cock"...
HE GUFFAWS
..must've shook the earth, back in the day.
'It seemed one type of voice dominated the cobbles.'
By gum, they make nowt to fit these days.
Coronation Street is synonymous with strong, fiery, hard-working,
gritty Northern women.
The matriarchs of the street, and there's been so many,
and they just keep coming.
Ah, good morning, Mrs Tanner. Good morning.
Is it? I hadn't noticed!
I think women are... bloody brilliant!
Wait till I get you in the house, you'll not be laughing then! Go on!
'The legacy of strong female characters on Corrie lives on.'
Will you shut your face?
You see this smile, Betty?
It's not really a smile. It's the lid on a scream.
LAUGHTER
Take your temper and leave.
Leave. There you are, out. Thank you.
I'm getting this...
and I'm after THIS.
Even when I came in, you know, Tina, again,
it followed suit from 60 years ago
that that's what character she was going to be,
taking no nonsense and standing up for herself.
And you, you stupid little cow! YELPS OF SHOCK
I think Coronation Street do that so well.
I can't stand what I'm starting to think.
And if you put me in the same category
as all those wonderful characters of strong Northern women,
then that's wonderful, I feel I've done me job.
Well, if I'd my way, I'd just like to go like me mother did.
Ee, that were a beautiful ending.
Oh, lovely. She just sat up...
HE JOINS IN: ..broke wind and died.
LAUGHING I think I'd like to go like that!
That's a classic scene!
I can't believe you're Shelley's mother, you look far too young.
Oh, thank you, you can't be looking close enough!
Oh, you're right, the neck, I can see the neck now.
That's the giveaway. LAUGHTER
# When you're smiling...#
'Humour runs through Coronation Street
'like Blackpool in a stick of rock,
'and it's attracted some of the nation's finest comedy talent.'
It's always had a great sense of humour.
TILL DINGS Hello. What's these, then?
I remember Mavis in the Kabin and a copy of an adult magazine,
right, and I was really shocked that you had a porn mag on Corrie.
I've already sold two copies!
Oh, you haven't!
That chap who just left bought one of them.
That Mr Tilsley? Yeah.
Well, he-he must've thought it was...
a do-it-yourself book, or something.
LAUGHTER
We need light relief. Look at what we're going through at the moment.
It's so important to have a sense of humour in these things.
ยฃ4.40, please, lads. He's paying.
Can I owe you it? No pockets in my dress.
People love it because of its humour.
'At the heart of Coronation Street's comedy
'are the writers and the performers,
'including some of Weatherfield's finest,
'and funniest, double acts.'
I have no problem with the gays.
You know I'd walk on hot coals for Paul O'Grady.
Deirdre and the Blanche scenes were just, I mean, so clever,
so beautifully written, but beautifully acted.
She was hysterical!
Wow, that looks good!
Help yourself, I put the rest in the freezer. You made even more?!
No, I haven't made any. These are what were left from the funeral.
I loved her dearly. She was such a sweet person.
Always impeccable...
you just wanted to laugh every time, her delivery was so perfect.
If the corpse were here, he'd tuck in with us!
Coronation Street has always done that amazing thing
of drama and comedy mixed in, in the two,
and it does that brilliant Manchester, Northern sense of humour
where, you know, even in tragedy, there's comedy.
One of the most amazing things about Coronation Street
is that it does get the balance of that really right.
"To Norris Cole, my gift to you is this...
"The knowledge that, for once, you've heard the news first-hand
"and won't have to go scurrying around for it."
LAUGHTER
'Still to come: The cast take a break from the cobbles.'
Come on, sailor.
Oh, she's such a glamourpuss!
MUSIC: 'Hot Love' by T Rex.
'Welcome back to Coronation Street: 60 Unforgettable Years,
'the soap with arguably the most famous theme tune in history.'
THEME TUNE PLAYS, HE MIMICS TUNE
# Doo-doo-doo-doo dooo. #
I would defy anybody not to know Coronation Street music.
It was like a call to arms, "Come on, everybody gather".
Dogs going... HE HOWLS
We had a cat that used to climb the curtain and run around the walls.
Cats and dogs, not right for them.
Poor Mr Woo!
'Whilst the famous signature tune
'may not have been music to pets' ears,
'rock legend Sir Paul McCartney was such a fan he made it his own.'
TO THE CORRIE THEME TUNE: # Oh... Ena Sha-a-ar-ples
# Oh, Albert Tatlock
# Minnie Caldwe-e-e-ll
# Coronation Stree-ee-eet. #
Zhoom!
'The 1970s also saw the Equal Pay Act,
'which was welcomed by many,
'but the early '70s also brought strikes,
'which were reflected in Coronation Street storylines.'
These daft old women!
'ITV technicians also went on strike,
'forcing Coronation Street off air.
'Returning to work two months later, what a relief to learn
'that Julie Goodyear had spent her unexpected sabbatical wisely.'
I'm afraid, probably sounds rather boring,
I've had decorators in and things like that,
getting my home sort of together.
'This was a decade we also saw the enigmatic Elaine Perkins
'arrive in Weatherfield only to break Ken's heart.'
Thank you...
'Oh, Ken, is it too late? I've changed my mind!'
..but no, thank you.
'Fond memories.
'And for many, landing a role in Coronation Street
'is an unforgettable moment.
'Like Rita,
'who only popped into the Rovers for a quick drink.'
MUSIC: 'My Generation' by The Who
I landed up in the Rovers, then, I think, Stan came in.
Got your eyeful?
Oh, sorry, love, I was just brooding, you know.
And I think he bought me a drink.
How about a pint? I'll have a vodka and lime. Thanks.
It took me three goes, three interviews, to actually get here.
Three different parts, and, um, the third one was Gail.
And I'm glad I got that one.
Well, in your age group... Hey, hang on a bit!
I doubt if I'm much older than you are!
What have I got on?!
Hm... you look a lot older.
LAUGHTER
Surely I didn't say that!
ALARM CLOCK RINGS
My first day ever, and I only had one scene,
and it was in Roy's Rolls
and I had to just answer a phone,
and say, "Hello, hello".
Hello? Hello? Hey, who is it?
"Some woman, can I have an Eccles cake, Mum?"
Some woman. OK.
Oh, Jack, look at you, little thing!
Can I have an Eccles cake, Mum? Hello?
I came in first in Coronation Street when I was 15, as a paper lad,
playing Neil Grimshaw.
Neil? Yeah?
I had to swear at Mavis, I think...
You can get someone else to do your bleeding papers!
..which was - ooh! - really, really naughty then.
'And as for his on-screen daughter, hasn't she grown?'
Sophie, what you doing here?
I've got a spelling test in the morning, can you help me?
My voice was so squeaky!
I don't want HER to help me.
It might be still as annoying, but it is NOT that high!
I was 16, just left school...
Who the hell are you?!
..in 1998.
This is Tyrone.
I joined the cast, and they was all Ken Barlows,
your Ritas, your Jack and Veras, your Mike Baldwins,
it was all the Corrie legends.
And me at 16 years old, with this awesome fringe
that I wish I had now, by the way...
Walking into that green room to see all them legends was amazing.
Hello. Hello, love.
What's all this, then?
When I got the job, I... you know, called me mum,
and she says, "Oh, what are you doing?"
I said, "Well, I'm going to be doing Coronation Street."
And, er... there was a silence on the other end of the phone,
then I could hear her, she starts crying.
Still the rebel trying to overturn society, then?
I thought you'd be at home in your carpet slippers. Peter!
Hiya, Dad. Ha-ha!
If you're a working-class kid and you get a job in Coronation Street,
it's the highest achievement you can have.
Look where you're going, halfwit!
Well, I didn't tell my parents that I was going for the role.
I didn't tell them that I was going for the final audition,
I thought, I don't want to tell them that I didn't get the job.
That latte cost me two quid!
Could you just do me a favour and call the burns unit?!
It had milk in it, you wuss!
I picked my dad up from work,
and I put the scripts in the back seat.
He got in the car and I said, "Dad, will you pass me those scripts?"
One of us wasn't looking where we're going!
I tell you what, a simple "Sorry" would go a long way.
And I remember him looking down,
looking at me, and then he started crying.
It was one of those moments that will stay with me forever.
MUSIC: 'Heart Of Glass' by Blondie.
'In 1974, like millions of Brits,
'Corrie went on its first trip abroad.'
Can do everybody a holiday in Majorca.
ALL: Oh, fantastic! Ooh, that's all right, isn't it?
Hang on, hang on, he can do it, only it's got to be a package,
the lot, everybody all together.
Oh, I'm beginning to get me butterflies.
See, this is the time I was watching it,
was the 1970s.
# Y viva Espana! #
LAUGHTER, HILDA GIGGLING
It does not get better than that, it does not get better than that!
Hilda Ogden and some maracas on a balcony,
singing, "We're off to sunny Spain". Just brilliant!
# Y viva Espana. #
Am I going brown?
BET AND RITA IN UNISON: Yes, you're going brown.
I'll tell you a story out of school.
We got word that the ladies were going to work in Majorca
for a week,
and the men in the cast, the silly beggars,
they wouldn't speak to us.
I'm saying that's not fair.
So off we went to Majorca,
and everyone thought, oh, they're having a fabulous time,
and it was dreadful.
It wasn't like Majorca is now.
Where we landed, not a big airport,
and we waited in the glass building, and waited.
Somebody came and said we can't get on the coach
to go to the hotel because somebody's not paid a bill.
'The novelty of filming on location in the sun quickly lost its shine.'
We got to the hotel, they would do nothing,
they wouldn't even give us a wake-up call.
You what?!
We got ourselves up and we made coffee in the morning
and that started it.
Well, it'll be a giggle, love, even if it is a bit grotty.
Right until that coach came
to take us back for that teatime plane, we were working.
MUSIC: 'Hot Stuff' by Donna Summer
You enjoy pedalo, si?
'Oh, yes, Barbara, it looks terribly taxing(!)
'Buenos dias, Pablo.'
Well, adios, amigas.
Hey, keep your eye on them bags! Come on, sailor.
'And adios, Mavis. Hm.'
Oh, she's such a glamourpuss!
Oh, dear! I don't remember that!
# Hot love! #
'Still to come, more behind-the-scenes secrets.'
In those days, you did your own stunts.
Barbara did all her own stunts, she actually wore that jacket for real.
LAUGHTER
THEME TUNE PLAYS
'Welcome back.
'Wedding fever was at an all-time high in July 1981
'with the fairytale nuptials of Charles and Diana.
'A few days earlier, however,
'Weatherfield royalty had pipped them to the altar.
'Over 20 million viewers could not believe their eyes
'as Deirdre took off her glasses!'
Walter, lead me to the altar!
Deirdre's glasses were gone and she looked, she looked gorgeous!
CROWD: Aww!
# It's a... nice day For a... white wedding. #
She really was very beautiful, wasn't she?
MINISTER: By the joining of hands...
..I pronounce them to be
man...
and wife together.
Could they just get married, then, and, like, be happy for a while?'
'Unfortunately not.
'Less than two years later, their love was on the rocks.'
# It started with a kiss. #
'So what went wrong for Ken and Deirdre?'
Ken had been written down, down, as a bit nerdy
and I was getting very frustrated, very unhappy.
I'm boring!
And there's nothing I can do about it,
because the great tragedy is I'm not aware of it.
I happen to think that I'm a great guy!
What about me? What about my life?
It really hurt me.
I regard myself as Ken's caretaker
and he's part of me.
Well, what else do you want?
What I've found. What's that?
Somebody else.
MUSIC: 'Ever Fallen In Love' by Buzzcocks
So when this scene came along, with Mike coming in and all that,
I was really very upset.
I want this thing out in the open, once and for all.
Now, tell me, just when did this nasty little affair get underway?
Oh, it has to be nasty?
Of course! Don't try to pretend it isn't.
If I had to choose between scenes, you know,
that I would take to a desert island,
I'll take that row between Ken and Deirdre.
Shall I tell you what it feels like to me?
It's like I'm part of the wallpaper
or a piece of furniture that's been around forever.
I mean, you hardly ever look at me, Ken.
'Her affair with ladies' man Mike Baldwin
'caused so much outrage across the country
'it became front-page news. 17 million viewers were gripped.'
I didn't go looking for an affair, I didn't want an affair!
Oh, I see, it was an irresistible impulse?
Written in the stars, and bigger than both of you(?)
I hate you when you talk like that. What you hate is the truth!
So we had this final culminating scene
where Ken and Deirdre are having an argument about this,
and there's a knock at the door. KNOCKING
Ignore it.
No.
Why did you put the phone down on me?
Close the door, Deirdre, quick!
I'm warning you, go! THEY ALL SHOUT AT ONCE
It's better if you go!
Ahh! Ken, stop!
Wow.
Sort of leaves you afterwards kind of gasping for breath.
Even that silence, you're just drawn in.
This is where Anne was brilliant, she was actually, genuinely crying,
and that scene, we got an award for that scene.
I think this was just the first time
it was kind of all played out in front of you,
and also done in such a way
that you weren't taking a moral stance about it.
You really felt for Ken, you know, you felt for Deirdre,
torn between the two men, and in a way, you felt for Mike as well.
She's got a home and a family, and that is where she's staying.
It was that home and that family she was so anxious to get away from.
That's why she came to me in the first place.
That was the difference,
it was an affair where you cared about all three people.
I've had enough of your poison in my family.
More than enough.
Look... ONLOOKERS GASP
Just stay away.
DOOR SLAMS
I really loved her. I mean, I really did love her
in a true and good sense.
She was a beautiful person,
a beautiful character and a brilliant actress.
'The Ken, Deirdre and Mike love triangle
'had truly captured the imagination of viewers
'and, it seemed, for the first time, the press too.'
There was no big deal about soaps, but after that,
we were on, literally, the photograph from the screen
was on the front page of all the papers.
# Guilty as a girl can be... #
'Deirdre would famously make more headlines 15 years later.'
I didn't do any of it!
'A classic soap injustice, Deirdre had been the victim
'to the fraudulent behaviour of her partner,
'career criminal John Lindsay.
'Taking Deirdre down with him, she got 18 months in prison.
'The nation was in shock and so, it seemed,
'was the resident of Number 10.'
Even the Prime Minister had something to say
when Deirdre Rachid was wrongly jailed
for a crime she didn't commit.
I was sat at my desk,
we were in the middle of the Free Deirdre campaign,
which was huge, and I picked up my phone
and this gentleman said that he was calling from 10 Downing Street
so I was absolutely gobsmacked, to use a Corrie word,
because, erm...
to know that the Prime Minister wanted to know about a storyline,
so it was really nice.
I briefed them and we laughed about it, cos, obviously,
it was probably a very strange conversation for him as well.
# Freedom... #
'The huge success of the show
'has meant its stars are instantly recognisable.'
I've walked into a petrol station in a full black tower helmet
and been recognised.
As soon as I said, "Pump number four, please",
the guy went, "No!" I was like, "How?!"
'And where there's public interest, naturally, the press will follow.'
How our lives changed, literally overnight,
was a huge shock.
Oh, hell!
The papers would go round to neighbours
that you used to grow up round,
offering them money for any background stories,
they'd be following you everywhere,
turns out they were tapping our phones,
I mean, I had to run across me mum's back garden
into another guy's back garden.
I'd have to hide in the back of his car,
that's how I got around without being followed.
What Simon fails to mention there is,
that all that was probably down to Simon.
The press intrusion was, y'know... SIMON LAUGHS
He wasn't the best behaved.
So basically,
Simon spoiled it for everybody else that came after him.
Surprise, surprise.
I think everyone's told by other cast members,
"Have you had the talk yet?"
So we tend to try and let them settle for about a month.
We don't want to freak them out straight away,
because it can be quite scary.
I do remember sitting down with the Battersbys
when they first started and they sat there and they sort of nodded
and Jane said, "I wasn't listening to a thing you were saying."
# Trouble troublemaker, yeah That's your middle name... #
So often, people will come back later and say,
you know you did that talk,
I didn't think any of that was going to happen to me.
But it did.
'From cast having to be on their best behaviour
'to characters who get to be very, very naughty.'
He's dead. SCREAMING
Baddies work so, so well in Coronation Street
because you've grown up and you love the other characters, the victims.
If I go down, you're going down with me.
He was a serial killer and he did kill a lot of people. He did, but...
But he didn't mean to, really!
There we go, we should have been his barristers.
He couldn't get on the Tube, people were chasing him with umbrellas...
it was just wonderful, really.
# Danger, danger! #
In those days, you did your own stunts.
Barbara did all her own stunts,
she actually did wear that jacket for real(!)
LAUGHING
HE YELLS, TYRES SCREECH
Pat Phelan killed my boyfriend.
GUNSHOT, WINDOW SHATTERS
Hairs on the back of my neck are standing up.
I've just thought of a new ending.
THUMP
There's some violence in this show,
I mean, you wouldn't want to live there, would you?
'To this day, one man remains top of the list of those baddies
'viewers love to hate.'
Don't scream. OK?
'Step out of the shadows, Richard Hillman.'
CRASH
He was the best.
Yeah, he was like panto baddie.
He was brilliant, everyone loved him!
SHE SCREAMS
GAIL SCREAMS
'Arriving as a mild-mannered businessman...'
Pleased to meet you.
'..Richard originally swept Gail off her feet,
'but had murder on his mind.'
It didn't just tell a story of me and Richard Hillman.
It was the story of all the family.
Bye. Bye! Toodles.
This was back in a time when we didn't have Netflix. It was so huge!
What are you going to do, Richard?
'The Platt family were plunged into chaos and terror.'
I'm so sorry!
He tried to kill us off, you know?
Why can't they leave us alone?
No! I love you!
SCREAMING
GURGLING
I don't think they'd be able to do it now.
No, it was so cold, Jack. I was like 13.
We were like, "OK! This is fun, isn't it?"
THEY LAUGH
My lips are blue! Freezing!
'I had to learn to swim because I couldn't ask the viewers
'to have gone through all that with us'
and then for them to see the back view of somebody with a wig on,
you know, coming up out of the water.
You talk about, before you die, your life passes in front of you.
I think Gail's life will pass in front of me,
I mean, mine's nothing compared to Gail's!
'Still to come: A new producer wreaks havoc.'
I did kill off, I think, nine characters
in probably 2-3 months.
'And one of the Street's hardest-hitting storylines.'
Oof! LAUGHTER
What the hell's that?
Somebody's watching us! Eh?
Can you hear me?
Just get dressed!
Oh! Oh!
MUSIC: 'Wannabe' by Spice Girls
# So tell me what you want... #
'Welcome back to the rather smashing
'Coronation Street: 60 unforgettable years.'
Jack, come and see!
'It's the '90s, and the producers were demolishing
'some of the old sets to make way for bigger, brand-new ones.'
Everyone agreed that the show needed to renew itself.
'New sets and new characters including Raquel Wolstenhulme -
'part-time model, full-time barmaid, and Ken's protege.'
Oh, it'll all end in tears, I know it will.
So, how much French do you know?
Nothing. Oh, I bet you do.
You think. Well, I know what baguettes are.
HE CHUCKLES
Red wine's vin rouge.
What was so lovely about it,
you had Raquel genuinely wanting to better herself...
Bonjour, Ken. Je m'appelle Raquel.
Well done.
"Hello, Ken. My name is Raquel.
"Isn't it a lovely day today?"
OK?
Oh... Clever. HE CHUCKLES
'Well, here goes.'
Bonjour, Ken. Mm.
Je m'appelle Raquel.
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?
BOTH LAUGH MUSIC: 'Lady Marmalade' by Labelle
What's Ken gonna say to that?
# Voulez-vous coucher avec moi Ce soir... #
Fantastic.
Thank you for that.
Brilliant. So lovely.
Oh, Ken...
Isn't it important, communication?
Oh, I feel dead sympathique, me.
This is literally Corrie at its finest, this scene, isn't it?
'From an iconic character of the '90s,
'to a couple of Corrie legends who arrived in 1964.
I love this little house. Don't let's lose it.
'When Stan and Hilda Ogden moved into 13 Coronation Street,
'it soon became clear that their on-screen spats...'
Mind your own business, fatty!
'..would keep us entertained for decades.'
Hilda and Stan were a beautiful couple.
I've noticed recently that you haven't been,
well, showing the interest what you should have been showing.
They're just so Northern, aren't they?
Er, Chuck... What?
What about a week last Wednesday?
SHE CHUCKLES I love it.
Oh, yeah, I'd forgotten about that. Well...
A brilliant actress.
Yeah, we're very lucky, aren't we? Yes, we are.
They played off each other so well.
Oh, beans again?
Well, not quite again, Chuck. We've had beans every day this week.
Yeah, but they're on a different plate today.
Hilda with her rollers,
it's very, very specific to that character, and it just works.
Kevin? In here, Mrs O.
Who's that? Mrs Ogden, my landlady.
You should've said you was coming home,
I could have got you a...
To end up living with Hilda Ogden in the show, it was just surreal.
I'm sorry, I didn't realise you had company.
It's OK, Mrs O, we're just going. I didn't come home for my dinner,
Came home to get Sally cleaned up.
Oh, yes?
To establish a relationship with Hilda Ogden as Kevin,
it was just...
I loved every moment of it.
I don't suppose we'll see you again?
I wouldn't bet on it.
Jean made Hilda Ogden into such an incredible character.
Everything she did,
all the little things that Jean did were just incredible.
Tough, Stanley, tough.
She bossed him about, and he was lazy
and the audience knew how much Hilda love Stan.
Champagne, dinner for two,
probably be prawn cocktails and all that.
Oh, it's like a dream come true.
I wonder who's in T'Rovers now.
They're just Corrie, aren't they? Yeah.
You can't not know about them if you've heard of Coronation Street.
Do you really think I look smashing?
I said so, didn't I?
Well, I feel smashing.
What a great couple these was on the screen.
Aw... Oh, I love this as well.
This was so nice.
MUSIC: 'It Had To Be You' by Frank Sinatra
We all remember this.
What's that lipstick taste of?
"Woman, Stanley."
Woman, Stanley.
Woman!
'One of British TV's favourite partnerships ended in 1984
'when actor Bernard Youens passed away.
'Stan's death followed, leaving Hilda devastated.'
He's gone, Alf.
When something really tragic like that happens,
you feel it with them, because you love them so much.
My Stan's gone.
That was very, very powerful.
MUSIC: 'Lost Without You' by Freya Ridings
The nation's heart broke when they watched this scene.
# I just feel crushed without you...
SHE SOBS
# I think I'm lost without you... #
It was just all perfectly done, wasn't it?
'Three years later, on Christmas Day 1987...'
I know I'll be moving to a posh house and that, but...
Well, I'll be leaving my heart behind in this street.
'And 27 million viewers tuned in for Hilda's swan song.'
# Wish me luck As you wave me goodbye... #
Oh, Hilda's voice, amazing!
Oh, bless her cotton socks.
ALL: # Give me a smile I can keep all the while... #
I was just pleased to be in that scene and say ta-ta to her.
# Wish me luck As you wave me goodbye
# Wish me luck As you wave me goodbye. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
You think, oh, the street can't possibly carry on
without Hilda Ogden, but somehow it does.
'Hilda got a very fond farewell,
'but ten years later,
'when new producer Brian Park arrived,
'other characters weren't quite so lucky.'
When I took over Coronation Street, there was feeling
that, you know, it was slightly floundering.
I've earned rather the ungracious title of the mad axeman.
Yes, I did kill off nine characters in probably 2-3 months.
They'll be coming for me next!
Don Brennan.
# Another one bites the dust... #
Andy McDonald.
Andy, where are you?
PHONE RINGS
Bill Webster.
Might be back sooner than you think.
Maureen Holdsworth.
I've got my passport, do you still want me to come?
Derek Wilton.
Look what you've done!
# Another one bites the dust... #
Des Barnes.
I love you, Mrs Barnes.
MONITOR BEEPS
Percy Sugden.
Well, I'll say goodbye.
It's a grim legacy.
'When he wasn't busy escorting characters off the cobbles,
'he dabbled in a little home-wrecking too.'
Oh, that's terrible!
I'd asked who's got the longest-lasting marriage?
Alas, it was Kevin and Sally. And I said, right,
we'll break them up.
# I came in like a wrecking ball
We brought in this femme fatale called Natalie Horrocks.
You're a very good mechanic, Kevin.
I always remember Sally saying she was so pleased
she got that storyline.
She said, "If I had to ask Kevin one more time
"what he wanted for his bleeding tea..."
"I was gonna throw up."
Natalie. Yeah?
Ooh! 'Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho!'
Ah... I felt so bad.
I think I really whacked her one.
Well, at least they only split us up,
and they didn't kill one of us.
HE CHUCKLES
'It wasn't all death and divorce.
'In 1998, Brian introduced Hayley Patterson,
'a pioneering character who would become one half
'of another much-loved couple.'
I'd love to think that Roy and Hayley
are part of that tradition of great couples on the street.
But it was always a bit edgy and a bit difficult.
MUSIC: 'Hold On' by Wilson Phillips
# Somebody's gonna make you Wanna turn around and say goodbye
# Until then, baby
# Gonna let 'em Hold you down, make you cry?
# Don't you know? Don't you know
# If you change Things will go your way... #
Hayley was the first transgender character in a soap in Britain.
I'm Hayley Cropper.
From the cafe.
Yes. Oh, right.
I remember half the writers team looking very shocked.
We did it quite cynically
in terms of, you know, proper shock value.
This is Hayley.
Nice to meet you, Roy. Oh, and you.
And it's testament to Julie's great acting skills
that she brought that character alive.
It was because they cast it so well, and we worked so well together,
so it wasn't a disastrous relationship.
HE YELLS, GROANS
How does that feel?
Lovely. Pardon?
Take it a step at a time.
I'd like that.
Would you, really?
Yeah. More than anything.
'All couples have secrets...
'but Hayley had quite the revelation for Roy.'
Do you understand what I said?
I-I-I don't think I do, no.
Hmm. Well, at least you're not laughing.
My voice is so high.
I was so young.
Is this some kind of joke? I mean, are you making fun of me?
No.
The language around this, it's so dated now.
I was born a boy.
What soaps do really successfully is to present a person to you
that you might not know anything about,
and the issue that sort of surrounds them, if you like,
is something that you might be quite afraid of.
And that's how you break down prejudices.
'After revealing her secret, Roy and Hayley's love only grew.'
To us. Yes.
To us.
'And as they fell in love, so did we.'
I was shopping in my local supermarket,
and, like, elderly ladies were saying to me
"When are you and Roy gonna get married?"
And I'd sort of say to them, well, you know,
were not allowed at the moment, because at that point,
it was against the law for transgender people
to marry their partners. And they were just,
"Never mind that!"
'That was just a wonderful thing for me.'
Will you marry me?
Oh, Roy...
MUSIC: 'It Must Have Been' by Roxette
My message to you, Hayley, is this:
the world can change its rules,
its laws...
and its opinions...
as frequently as it chooses.
But I will remain standing beside you.
APPLAUSE # But it's all over now
# From the moment we touched
# Till the time had run out... #
'Still to come:
'the Queen of the Rovers.'
The massive hair and the huge earrings, leopard-print.
Julie did it amazingly.
I'm sorry I'm late, Mrs Walker.
BIG BEN BONGS
'As fireworks lit up the skies of the new millennium...
MUSIC: 'Year 2000' by Pulp
'One of Coronation Street's most-loved characters returned
'for one night only.'
Hello, Curly.
'18 million viewers tuned in
'to see actress Sarah Lancashire's cameo return.'
Surprised to see me? You could say that.
Yeah, gobsmacked.
'And Raquel had some shocking news for Curly.'
Who is it?
This is our daughter.
There's somebody else.
Whatever you want on this...
..divorce bit...
..you've got.
Happy New Year.
Happy new life.
'And so it was goodbye to Raquel, who like so many
'before her and since,
'left her indelible mark behind the bar of the Rovers.'
A snowball, please. I don't think we've got any of them.
That's all right, love, you make one. How?
Nay, love, you're the barmaid.
'When the residents of Coronation Street are in need of a smile
'and a drink, there's one place they can go
'where everybody knows your name.'
Yes, Robbie. Pint of bitter, please.
MUSIC: 'Happy Hour' by The Housemartins
Ha!
Go on, have a brandy, I'm having one.
Everything's overheard in the Rovers.
It's the base of the street, really.
As soon as one person has gone in the Rovers,
everyone in the street knows what's going on, then.
Is, er... that who I think it is? Very probably, yeah.
Are they together now?
Search me. I just stand here and serve drinks.
The Rovers is where everyone will always end up
at the end of any celebration...
Well, cheers. Cheers.
You can have babies born there... SHE STRAINS
You can have wedding parties.
You can have trams coming through it.
You always end up in the Rovers, so that is the heart of the street.
'And the lifeblood of this iconic pub are the barmaids.
'62 over 60 years,
'the very first of which was Concepta Riley who pulled pints
'under the watchful eye of steely Annie Walker.'
He should see her through tonight.
I'm not deaf, I heard you the first time.
MUSIC: 'Here Come The Girls' by Ernie K-Doe
# Girls
# Girls, girls
# Here come the girls Girls
# Girls Girls, girls. #
When I found out I got the job in the Rovers,
I was over the moon.
The Rovers is like the heart of the street,
so to be given the role as the barmaid
is like a massive honour.
What can I get you?
Oh, I think I'll just have the usual, please.
Sorry, I can't seem to remember what that is.
Because you're too busy trying to remember
what shade of orange to paint yourself.
I was thrilled when I got to go behind the bar in the Rovers.
Surprise!
Kate Kelly, she played Becky so brilliantly.
We have a wide selection of wines and spirits,
and some of the finest ales in England.
Can you stack them mixers for us, Raquel, love?
# Here come the girls. #
HE CHUCKLES It's so cruel, that, isn't it?
SHE CHUCKLES Just an absolute top class comedian.
Right, I want a pint of bitter, lager and lime
and a large Scottish wine, please.
Red or white?
Eh? What? Come again, what?
Scottish wine? Red or white?
Whiskey. Scotch whiskey.
She just has lived on in people's memories
as a completely iconic character.
'But without doubt, the Queen of Newton & Ridley
'and a vision in bright blue eye shadow - one Bet Lynch.'
MUSIC: 'I'm Coming Out' by Diana Ross
# I want the world to know... #
The massive hair and the huge earrings, leopard-print.
'Julie did it amazingly.'
Bet Lynch's place is stood behind a bar,
wearing pair of daft earrings and very little else.
I'm sorry I'm late, Mrs Walker.
Good heavens!
Give us a large Scotch. Say please, you can have in a glass.
I'll give you a tip, love,
cos it don't look like you'll give me one...
'Bet rose through the ranks.'
I still can't believe it, me, my own pub.
I just know it's gonna change my life somehow.
You'll be a very good landlady.
'Once Bet was in charge,
'there was no mistaking whose name was over the door...'
There are three things off-limit in this pub.
Religion...
politics...
and pinching somebody else's wife...
..or husband.
Get it? Get it?
Got it? Got it?
Good! Good.
Carry on supping.
..'ably assisted by Betty...'
I mean, if you're not being talked about in this pub, love,
you're not worth serving.
'..and her famous hotpot.'
Betty, love, you give everybody what they want? I will.
Right, who's for hotpot?
There you go, my love.
One hotpot.
Cheers, Betty.
'Bet said goodbye to the Rovers in 1995.'
'In this pub, Vera, I'm cock of the walk.'
'She eventually left the show for good in 2003,
'but her legacy lives on.
'Over the decades, Coronation Street has built a reputation
'for tackling important and difficult issues.'
MUSIC: 'You Don't Own Me' by Lesley Gore
Oh, look, what do we have here?
Full of Yasmeen's stuff.
Planning on going somewhere, dear?
It's really hard to watch the scenes with Jeff sometimes.
You bitch! You stupid... SHE SCREAMS
# Don't tell me what to do... #
I had bin liners full of letters...
from ladies going through exactly the same thing.
Heartbreaking letters.
I have told you time and time again to have nothing more to do with her!
And I keep her out of... I've had enough!
I think domestic violence had been shown on telly,
but not the way round of the male being the victim.
You don't think I like being like this, do you?
The response was huge to that story
cos, you know, it was such a taboo subject.
MUSIC: 'Smalltown Boy' by Bronski Beat
The reason why Sarah Louise has put on some weight...
..is because she's pregnant.
I tried to push him off, but I couldn't.
When I woke up, I knew what he'd done.
I've had a lifetime fighting...
Fighting people calling me names,
and I have heard every name
and every stupid comment you can think of.
It's really emotional. It's really emotional.
'It seems highly likely that Aidan's death was suicide.'
Coronation Street has to run a very sort of, like,
fine line between talking about things that are relevant...
No!
..and still being entertainment, but do it really, really well.'
'In 2009, one storyline was to prove devastating
'on and off-screen for actress Sally Dynevor.'
Sal?
I can't...
MUSIC: 'All Of Me' by John Legend
SHE EXHALES DEEPLY
I've got cancer.
Oh, it's quite hard to watch, this.
I hated that storyline.
I really, really didn't like it.
'In a shocking case of life imitating art,
'Sally Dynevor was herself diagnosed with breast cancer.
She pulled me to one side after doing all these...
emotional scenes and then says she's...
she's got cancer in real life.
Sal was, and is, like I say, a massive part of my life.
She's a real mother figure to me.
And to sit and watch her have to play something
that you know deep down she's going through...
it was awful.
I was shaking, I...
I just couldn't believe that this had happened.
Surely that's Sally Webster, not Sally Dynevor.
'Sally went on to make a full recovery on and off-screen.'
Another year cancer-free.
Oh, Sally, that's fantastic.
'Now, I'm getting women who are saying, "I'm going through
"what you went through but just knowing that you're here
"and it's 11 years later, just gives me so much hope."
Oh, gosh, I'm gonna get really emotional.
'In 2010, a sensational tram crash and a special live episode
'marked Coronation Street's 50th anniversary.'
Ah!
This was so nerve-wracking
and yet so exciting at the same time.
SHE SCREAMS
Fiz, wait! John!
'Cast and crew pulled out all the stops
'for the scenes that created carnage on the street.'
OK, we're all right.
Wait! TRAM HORN BLARES
Get back!
There was a feeling that this is a great moment.
Oh, gives you chills. I remember watching this.
The tram was spectacular...
That really took some topping.
Doing these things live adds a kind of degree of horror
for producers, but also excitement.
It's been the biggest thing Coronation Street's ever done,
and that was a great team effort, and it was an exciting time.
Look!
'The crash was the end for Corrie's Molly Dobbs...'
SHE SIGHS
'..and Ashley Peacock.'
There's been an explosion!
Coronation Street!
I knew that there was going to be a tram crash,
but I didn't know that it was an homage
to the original train crash.
'In 1967, the team had created a similarly spectacular crash.'
There's a train through the fire door!
'In a chilling homage to its predecessor...'
Somebody! 999!
'..this tram crash brought the decade to a close.'
SCREAMING
Those were very exciting times,
and beautifully written, and I think acted by everybody.
What is it with me and trams?
'Still to come...
'indecent proposals...'
RAPS: So won't the real Slim Shady...
Please stand up, please stand up.
I'd like to offer you... Whoa!
SIMON GIGGLES
Oh! Didn't know you could ride horses.
I couldn't! That was the point!
'Welcome back to Coronation Street: 60 Unforgettable Years.'
It's not good news, Hayley.
It appears you're suffering from a particularly aggressive cancer.
I'm going to end my life when I choose.
Oh, I can't...
I can't watch it.
I'm so sorry I have to go.
No, I... I just wish...
I know, I know you do.
I always feel really embarrassed, because I feel I'm like going,
"Oh, I'm crying because it's such good acting,"
but it's not that! It's just everything that it represents.
I love you!
MUSIC: 'Let Her Go' by Passenger
Oh, David.
# Only hate the road When you're missing home... #
Saying goodbye to, you know, probably the most important
and wonderful working relationship of my life.
# When it's burning low
# Only miss the sun When it starts to snow
# Only know your lover when you let her go... #
'During its 60 years, there have been 57 births, 196 deaths...'
SHE SCREAMS '..and 132 weddings..
'There's nothing quite like a Weatherfield wedding.'
You can't beat a nice church wedding.
'The first was in 1961,
'when Jack and Annie Walker's daughter married Gordon Davies.'
WOMEN: Oh, isn't she lovely?
'Since then, there have been more than 100 couples from the cobbles
'who stepped up to the altar to say...'
I do.
'..and then very soon after...'
You don't have to go through with this.
SCREAMING
' "I most definitely don't." '
I don't want to get married and stay married happily,
there's no fun in that. SHE CHUCKLES
If you're in a soap, you're gonna end up marrying at least two people.
My mate, Chris Gascoigne, Peter, I mean, he's had...
he has had the absolute bevy of maidens on...
'The best of the crop. Like that, and I'm like...'
I said, "No wonder you don't leave."
HE CACKLES
I said I know what you're onto, your motive is on this show.
HE CHUCKLES 'I've had five...'
Is it five? It is five.
'And I married one of them twice. Wonderful husbands!'
Who could wish for more? Erm...
'I've loved them all.'
'But the undisputed marriage maestro -
'step forward, one Steve McDonald.
'With a record-breaking seven marriages under his belt,
'more than any other character in soap history,
'he must be thrilled.'
MUSIC: 'Smooth Operator' by Sade
Filming a wedding is the most awful thing in the world.
Erm... It's long, it's boring, mainly it's cold
cos they love to get married in winter in a sandstone church
that's basically a giant fridge.
HE BLOWS HIS NOSE Just cos I look like Henry VIII,
doesn't mean I need the same amount of wives.
'He always had a lovely suit, didn't he, Steve?'
For the wedding.
I mean, what bin did they find them suits?
What's that about?
Oh, it's only Si, just, you know, we don't even need the budget,
just grab that.
HE CHUCKLES
SING-SONG: We're getting married!
'Steve McDonald has tied the knot with Vicky Arden...'
SQUEALS '..Karen Phillips...'
Mrs McDonald...
welcome home.
'..Becky Granger...' Are you hammered?
Celebrating!
'..Michelle Connor...' CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
'..and of course the girl of his dreams and nightmares -
'Tracy Barlow -
'who was so good, he married her twice.'
After everything that's happened and everything he's been through,
you know, strangely enough, it turns out that Tracy's the right one.
She'd already lost the baby, Steve, check the dates.
Your shiny new wife's a filthy liar.
She's evil, she's horrible...
She keeps him on his toes, and, you know,
he's slightly frightened of her, so that whole thing...
It sounds like my real marriage! BOTH LAUGH
CAMERA SHUTTER SNAPS
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
And I thought I'd had the most.
Well, in that case, I've room for two more.
SHE CHUCKLES
'However, one hopelessly romantic resident
'loved falling in love so much, he made a habit of proposing.'
I know folk joke about me processing.
They say I'd propose to a mop if you'd put it in a nice frock.
Will you...
marry...
me?
But it's-it's not that I propose a lot...
I want to marry you.
Oh, Fred, you don't!
SHE SCOFFS Fred...
I'd make you so happy, I swear I would.
I just get turned down a lot.
I'll not give up.
Not in my nature.
'And when I fall, I fall hard and fast.'
I love you!
I want to spend the rest of me life with you.
I fall in love too easily.
Marry you?
MUSIC: 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough'
by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
Oh, my goodness!
# Ain't no valley low enough... #
When I ask a woman to marry me, I mean it.
Of course I will. Now come on, Fred, get up. Ah!
I mean it with all my heart.
'Fred wasn't the only one on the street
'who knew how to make a grand, romantic gesture.'
RAPS: # I'm Slim Shady, Yes, I'm the real Shady,
# All you other Slim Shadies Are just imitating
# So won't the real Slim Shady...
# Please stand up, please stand up Please stand up. #
Is Fiz on her way? Fiz!
There's someone to see you... Fiz!
I'd like to offer you... Whoa!
HE GIGGLES Will you marry me?
I didn't know you could ride horses. I couldn't!
BOTH LAUGH That was the point!
'No celebration is complete
without another of the street's most-loved couples...
'on and off-screen.'
For me, Jack and Vera were everything
that the street was about.
'Jack and Vera Duckworth, true soap royalty.'
Give over! Vera, folk might be watching.
'They first appeared together back in 1979.'
Hey, you haven't met my husband, have you? Jack.
'And their unique brand of romance...'
A breadboard?
A flaming breadboard for me Christmas present?
Yeah, the old one looked knackered.
It's not the only thing that looks knackered around here.
'..soon made them the nation's favourite couple.'
Will you stop it?!
They're just trying to be thoughtful, that's all.
Must've a couple of months to live.
God forgive you.
When I was growing up, before I was on Coronation Street,
Bill and Liz who played Jack and Vera, was...
they was Mr and Mrs Coronation Street to me.
Yeah, well, you want to be careful, cos you've only got me left.
Don't I know I've only got you left.
You totally, utterly believed those characters existed in real life.
You believed them.
You believed they were somebody's next-door neighbour.
It's only a joke, innit?
You'll laugh out of the side of your face next time you come out
with summat like that, I'm warning you.
I always loved the Jack and Vera dynamic.
Jack! Oh!
That love-hate thing.
Constantly cracking him round the head.
Get out! Jack!
You have done it again, haven't you?
She'd always have him back. There was never...
Divorce was never an option.
Oi, you!
The name's not "Oi, you", it's Tyrone.
I was a young 16-year-old kid,
and I'd just joined the biggest show on UK television.
And I kind of needed somebody like Bill and Liz,
and the advice that they gave me in very different ways, you know,
Liz would often sit with me and have a chat, and he did that.
I don't want to be like my mum and dad.
I'd prefer to be like you and Jack.
Oh, Tyrone.
Vera was a strong woman, and Jack...
was this henpecked husband, but he desperately loved Vera.
I love you, Jack.
I know.
And you know too, don't you?
I do.
'After 50 years of marriage,
'Jack said a heartbreaking farewell to his darling Vera.'
No, you haven't, you haven't left. You haven't.
Jack wouldn't be without his soulmate for too long.
One of my favourite episodes ever
was when Vera's ghost came back for him.
'Two years later, Vera returned as a ghost
'to be reunited with Jack in a scene that broke the nation's heart.'
While the music's playing.
What are you one about? Come here.
Oh...
MUSIC PLAYING: 'Softly As I Leave You' by Matt Monro
Oh...
When did you go soft?
I'll give you three guesses.
Oh...
SHE SNIFFS
# So softly...
Personally, knowing that Bill's health wasn't great,
that was one of the hardest days I've ever had to film.
# As I leave you there...
It was like part of your family dying, you know?
What more could you wish for in two characters than...
Jack and Vera?
MUSIC: 'Hometown Glory' by Adele
'It's been a truly unforgettable 60 years of Coronation Street.'
# Round my hometown Ooh, the people I've met
# Are the wonders of my world
# Are the wonders of this world
# Are the wonders now... #
'For those who've walk the cobbles,
'it will always hold a place in their hearts.'
Somebody said to Tony Warren once, "Where is Coronation Street?"
And he said, "Wherever you want it to be in your heart."
This show has my heart. I love it so much.
A privilege to be a part of it.
I love it.
I'm never going to forget Coronation Street.
It's been my life.
I'll miss you. And I miss you too.
It's been everything that an actress could ask for.
In a word, Coronation Street is like home.
So long as the public are getting what they want,
Coronation Street will outlast us all.
I miss everything about Coronation Street.
I'd say mainly the people.
I think Coronation Street will continue for another 60 years.
'And after six decades, is it time for Ken to put away the crossword?'
Don't even think about it.
I'd like to be the first centenarian to be working in a soap.
So why not? HE LAUGHS
Wow. Coronation Street means everything to me.
Everything.
Erm, it's... You know, I love it.
It saved my life.
Sorry, I'm going to start...
'Happy birthday, Corrie.
'Here's to the next 60.'
Happy birthday...
# To you. #
APPLAUSE
Was that all right?
That was amazing. All right.
Oh... Thank you.
Oh, that was so good.
I'm glad I'm in it. Thanks for having me on it.
I hope I wasn't gushing. I do gush.
And I'll see you on the 70th.
SHE CACKLES
Thank you, Simon.
Cool.
SHE LAUGHS
Thank you very much. Thanks, everyone.
APPLAUSE Thank you very much.
I... Thank you.
Yeah, well done, everybody. Well done.
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