The Road To Coronation Street

[Caran]

The history of the start of the show. Started 7.30.

[andy-hughes]

I remember a documentary about CS - and Tony Warren saying how he listened to his mum and her friends talking when he was small, which gave him an over-riding sense of strong Lancashire women who became the backbone of his drama when he started to write it.

Then he heard someone refer to people from another street as " ... very bay window down there ..." - that's the sort of ear for dialogue that pins down an entire social class in five simple words.

You don't get that sort of ear for dialogue very often - Victoria Wood had it, Alan Bennett has it.

[Bobbisox1]

Seen it 1st time round , very good

[Caran]

I had seen it before. I really enjoyed it and it was funny to hear about places and things I knew with me being from that area.

[Mamyalynne]

How many times have you walked those cobbles Caran?

Four for me and fell on my derriere once - well it was a brewery do :-)

[Caran]

I went three times Mamya.

[Mamyalynne]

Great fun.

[chessington]

Seen it when it was first shown, very good, I said Daniel in the show now would be good to play Tony Warren, similar voice