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        <title><![CDATA[The week in soapland]]></title>
		<comments>http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/790-soap-life-in-soapland-46/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:30:45 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[
			
				<b><a
			
				href="http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/013-the-bestsoap">EastEnders</a></b><br/><br/>
			
				If
			
				love
			
				is
			
				a
			
				drug,
			
				Walford
			
				is
			
				jam-packed
			
				with
			
				junkies
			
				all
			
				craving
			
				their
			
				next
			
				fix.
			
				While
			
				Peggy
			
				snuggles
			
				up
			
				to
			
				Archie,
			
				clearly
			
				having
			
				developed
			
				amnesia
			
				regarding
			
				her
			
				beau's
			
				past
			
				actions
			
				or
			
				else
			
				gone
			
				doolally
			
				from
			
				inhaling
			
				Roxy
			
				and
			...		
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        <link>http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/790-soap-life-in-soapland-46/</link>
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        <title><![CDATA[Coronation Street: your questions answered]]></title>
		<comments>http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/789-soap-smokers-in-corrie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:50:45 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[
			
				Kieran
			
				Roberts,
			
				executive
			
				producer
			
				of
			
				Coronation
			
				Street,
			
				
			
				answers
			
				the
			
				questions
			
				you've
			
				been
			
				longing
			
				to
			
				ask
			
				about
			
				the
			
				popular
			
				soap.</b><br
			
				/><br
			
				/>

<b>Why
			
				do
			
				so
			
				many
			
				characters
			
				smoke?</b><br/>Hilary
			
				Twinberrow,
			
				Shirley,
			
				West
			
				Midlands<br
			
				/><br
			
				/>"While
			
				we
			
				have
			
				a
			
				duty
			
				not
			
				to
			
				glamorise
			...		
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        <link>http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/789-soap-smokers-in-corrie/</link>
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        <title><![CDATA[The week in soapland]]></title>
		<comments>http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/784-soap-mystery-dad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:30:45 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[
			
				As
			
				jaws
			
				drop
			
				at
			
				the
			
				revelation
			
				of
			
				the
			
				identity
			
				of
			
				Heather's
			
				baby's
			
				father
			
				in
			
				EastEnders
			
				-
			
				which
			
				is
			
				to
			
				say,
			
				little
			
				Darren,
			
				who
			
				clearly
			
				isn't
			
				so
			
				little
			
				any
			
				more
			
				-
			
				you
			
				might
			
				wonder
			
				how,
			
				and
			
				indeed
			
				why,
			
				the
			
				soap
			
				came
			...		
			]]>
		</description>
        <link>http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/784-soap-mystery-dad/</link>
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        <title><![CDATA[The week in soapland]]></title>
		<comments>http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/769-coronation-street-dark-forces/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:03:45 BST</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[
			
				<b><a
			
				href="http://www.radiotimes.com/content/features/coronation-street/">Coronation
			
				Street</a></b><br/><br/>The
			
				problem
			
				with
			
				issuing
			
				an
			
				ultimatum
			
				is
			
				that
			
				you
			
				have
			
				to
			
				be
			
				prepared
			
				for
			
				whoever
			
				you
			
				threaten
			
				to
			
				jump
			
				the
			
				other
			
				way,
			
				so
			
				to
			
				speak.
			
				Carla
			
				might
			
				like
			
				to
			
				consider
			
				this.
			
				<br/><br/>After
			
				she
			
				threatens
			
				to
			
				reveal
			
				Tony
			
				Gordon's
			...		
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		</description>
        <link>http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/769-coronation-street-dark-forces/</link>
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        <title><![CDATA[The week in soapland]]></title>
		<comments>http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/764-Carla-Returns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:50:45 BST</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[
			
				<b><a
			
				href="http://www.radiotimes.com/content/features/coronation-street/">Coronation
			
				Street</a></b><br/><br/>
			
				If
			
				there's
			
				one
			
				thing
			
				guaranteed
			
				to
			
				ruin
			
				your
			
				romance
			
				with
			
				the
			
				widow
			
				of
			
				the
			
				man
			
				you
			
				murdered
			
				for
			
				having
			
				an
			
				affair
			
				with
			
				your
			
				wife,
			
				it's
			
				the
			
				return
			
				of
			
				said
			
				wife,
			
				to
			
				whom
			
				you
			
				had
			
				confessed
			
				your
			
				crime.
			...		
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        <link>http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/764-Carla-Returns/</link>
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        <title><![CDATA[Celebrations in soapland]]></title>
		<comments>http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/755-eastenders-birthday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:30:45 BST</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[
			
				As
			
				<a
			
				href="http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/013-the-bestsoap">EastEnders</a>
			
				announces
			
				that
			
				a
			
				live
			
				episode
			
				will
			
				be
			
				the
			
				culmination
			
				of
			
				a
			
				weeklong
			
				commemoration
			
				of
			
				its
			
				25th
			
				birthday
			
				next
			
				February
			
				and
			
				
			
				<a
			
				href="http://www.radiotimes.com/content/features/coronation-street/">Coronation
			
				Street</a>
			
				
			
				prepares
			
				to
			
				celebrate
			
				its
			
				50th
			
				anniversary
			
				in
			
				December
			
				2010,
			
				the
			
				question
			
				of
			...		
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		</description>
        <link>http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/755-eastenders-birthday/</link>
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        <title><![CDATA[The week in soapland]]></title>
		<comments>http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/731-soap-sweet-and-sour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:00:45 BST</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[
			
				<b>Emmerdale</b><br/><br/>With
			
				all
			
				the
			
				recent
			
				arrivals
			
				in
			
				Emmerdale,
			
				you'd
			
				be
			
				forgiven
			
				for
			
				thinking
			
				a
			
				League
			
				of
			
				Gentlemen-like
			
				New
			
				Road
			
				had
			
				just
			
				opened
			
				beyond
			
				Butler's
			
				Farm.
			
				<br/><br/>Maybe
			
				it
			
				has,
			
				because
			
				who
			
				is
			
				this
			
				but
			
				another
			
				new
			
				face,
			
				in
			
				the
			
				shape
			
				of
			
				one
			...		
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		</description>
        <link>http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/731-soap-sweet-and-sour/</link>
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        <title><![CDATA[The week in soapland]]></title>
		<comments>http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/725-soap-unhappy-returns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:50:45 BST</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[
			
				<b><a
			
				href="http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/013-the-bestsoap">EastEnders</a></b><br/><br/>Bad
			
				penny
			
				alert!
			
				Sam
			
				Mitchell,
			
				is
			
				that
			
				you?
			
				(No
			
				really,
			
				is
			
				that
			
				you?
			
				You
			
				look,
			
				er,
			
				different.
			
				And
			
				yet
			
				oddly
			
				familiar.)
			
				<br/><br/>Last
			
				seen
			
				hotfooting
			
				it
			
				to
			
				Brazil
			
				after
			
				helping
			
				to
			
				dispose
			
				of
			
				dead
			
				Dirty
			
				Den,
			
				Sam
			
				seemingly
			
				has
			
				had
			...		
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		</description>
        <link>http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/725-soap-unhappy-returns/</link>
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        <title><![CDATA[The week in soapland]]></title>
		<comments>http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/720-soaps-fete-worse-than-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:00:00 BST</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[
			
				<b><a
			
				href="http://www.radiotimes.com/content/features/coronation-street/">Coronation
			
				Street</a></b><br/><br/>Roll
			
				up,
			
				roll
			
				up
			
				-
			
				it's
			
				fairground
			
				time!
			
				I
			
				know
			
				what
			
				you're
			
				thinking:
			
				isn't
			
				every
			
				day
			
				a
			
				festival
			
				in
			
				Weatherfield?
			
				With
			
				the
			
				choice
			
				of
			
				freak
			
				shows
			
				("Witness
			
				widow
			
				Maria
			
				fall
			
				into
			
				the
			
				arms
			
				of
			
				her
			
				husband's
			
				killer!"),
			
				the
			...		
			]]>
		</description>
        <link>http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/720-soaps-fete-worse-than-death/</link>
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        <title><![CDATA[The week in soapland]]></title>
		<comments>http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/710-soaps-just-impediment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:30:45 BST</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[
			
				<b><a
			
				href="http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/013-the-bestsoap">EastEnders</a></b><br/><br/>Another
			
				week,
			
				another
			
				wedding
			
				-
			
				or
			
				at
			
				least
			
				an
			
				attempt
			
				at
			
				one
			
				-
			
				as
			
				Walford
			
				plays
			
				host
			
				to
			
				the
			
				joining
			
				of
			
				the
			
				most
			
				improbable
			
				pairing
			
				you're
			
				ever
			
				likely
			
				to
			
				see
			
				outside
			
				a
			
				Heston
			
				Blumenthal
			
				menu.
			
				<br/><br/>Dawn
			
				and
			
				Garry's
			
				big
			...		
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		</description>
        <link>http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/710-soaps-just-impediment/</link>
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