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Phil Redmond: What Brookside would be covering it if was still on TV

The writer and creator behind some of TV’s best-loved soaps and drama tells Jill Halfpenny and Jason Mohammad what issues he’d be covering if Brookside was still on the air. The popular Liverpool-based soap ran for 21 years between 1982 and 2003, and covered hard-hitting issues from domestic abuse to incest.

Coronation Street recently came in for criticism recently after a storyline dealt with male rape, a topic that β€˜Hollyoaks’, also conceived by Redmond, first covered in British soap.

β€œIf you say soaps aren’t the place to deal with these issues, then life isn’t the place to deal with these issues”, Phil told Good Morning Sunday.

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