Not really. Anymore than you could do it in Corrie, etc. The isolation bit makes it impossible for the existing story threads.
They've done pretty well in the past adding in topical things, where they can.
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Mar 29, 2020
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Good to know how in touch you are harry.
AT the moment the cast of Gavin and Stacey seem to have moved in.
Fair enough. But I thought EVERYONE needed a bit of a light hearted non knob related joke.
Never listened to it in my life, probably never will.
I can remember getting thrown out of The Grey Horse in Old Town because I insulted an Emmerdale Farm actor who used to drink in there. Probably back in 1998 as I was with a bird called Helen.
I listened to it a bit in the 1950s, and in the late 1980s. Honestly you are not missing anything.
Though it is slightly less a narrative of stupid people being extremely stupid than is Coronation street or East Enders
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If they run out of current episodes they will probably dig him up.
I grew up within sight of the establishment, just down Kensington Road, though moved away in '67.
Chris
You should join their fan club. Lots of spare women in it just gagging for it - according to a pal. Who goes on weekends away with it. Only because she is a fan, obviously. Ratio of men to women about 1:20.
It does vary over the years. The long running thread with Helen and abusive partner was riveting. And radio drama allows your own imagination to run riot compared to TV.
Will he not be a bit smelly or rattling when he walks?
The house next to St Paul's on Greenfoot Lane was at one time my Grandads house.
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It looks like it have altered a bit from 1977.
The Wilthorpe Hotel down the road is now a Tesco Express.
I used to go to Sunday school there. When I decided to stop attending, my dad called me a heathen. ;-)
I remember sledging down the grassy incline
I'm not sure I know that, though one of my routes to school was down Greenfoot Lane.
Chris
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