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Coronation Street has been working on Ryan's storyline with guidance from The Katie Piper Foundation and Acid Survivors Trust International (ASTI) , which both offer help and support to real-life survivors. Warren, who at first had a strained relationship with Granada, also struggled with drink and drugs. He would often run away, spending some time in a commune in San Francisco. He returned to the Street in the 1980s as a consultant and beloved oracle. He sat in on storyline meetings until not long before his death in 2016, aged 79.

In 1964 , a producer called Tim Aspinall shattered the golden age by killing off several big characters, but also introducing the Street legends Stan and Hilda Ogden . It was the first of many off-screen upheavals. Now they all work so hard they don’t even have time to sit – they just lean if they get a break. I bought chairs for them all when I left but I don’t suppose they get much use. I asked Sue Nicholls [Audrey Roberts] out for dinner one evening and she looked and me and said, ‘Out?! I’ve got to learn me lines.’ John Finch (writer then producer 1961-1970): The key to everything was Tony Warren’s characters. Nobody, including myself, ever matched his characterisation. But I think he soon got tired and faded away when other writers took over his characters. I think it hurt him.

Part of that experience has been dealing with the Covid pandemic. Last week, the MP Tracy Brabin , who played Tricia Armstrong on the Street in the 1990s , led an hour-long adjournment debate in tribute to Coronation Street and its impact – and the work to keep it on screen under social-distancing rules. “It is a real shame that at the end of this debate, we cannot have that haunting melody of Coronation Street playing,” the deputy speaker, Nigel Evans , said in his closing remarks.

Katy Roberts, Head of Merch and Shops Delivery at Coronation Street, expressed excitement over the "retro" inspired range: "We are thrilled to be collaborating with Joanie on this retro Coronation Street clothing collection. Daran Little: It took me two years to convince a largely straight, male writing team to bring in openly gay characters. I think it was just the fear of the unknown. Coronation Street narrowly survived the threat of closure in 1968. The writing deteriorated in the early 1970s and the show risked becoming an anachronism or, worse, a joke. Rescue came with Bill “the Godfather” Podmore , an RAF pilot turned director who took over as producer in 1976. Feared yet respected, Podmore restored Warren’s brand of humour, reviving the Ogdens as a comedic act. A new golden era lasted into the 1980s, when audiences would often top 20 million. Sally Ann Matthews: In the 80s we were all friends and had all the time in the world. Now there are characters you just never see if your days don’t coincide.

Nigel Havers (Lewis Archer 2009-2019) : Snobbery has always been there, but I think the key to Corrie’s magic is that it has irony and that great sense of humour. It’s never afraid to send itself up, but treats its audience as grownups. In my career, it’s right up there with Chariots of Fire and the National Theatre. Paul Abbott (script editor/writer 1985-1996): I remember at one point I was getting the blame for all these leaks so I wrote different versions of letters with fake information and left them in the booking table where all the actors got their dates. In one letter it said we were going to film in Barbados and it was in the Manchester Evening News by 5pm. I’d got the greedy little shit! Audiences loved it, swiftly winning the show further episodes. Within months Coronation Street was broadcast across the regions and became the most-watched show in Britain. Soon a publicity manager, Norman Frisby , was working hard to manage interviews and charity events. If fans can't choose which business they like the best, there will also be items containing multiple references such as a statement dress and shirt for the die-hard Corrie fans among us.

Sally Ann Matthews: This whole year has proved how important Coronation Street still is. I’m a huge telly addict and love to binge, but this year we’ve all been at home so much, with so much choice, and in such a stressful world it’s reassuring to turn on the TV and know that Corrie is still there. Alastair Campbell ( Downing Street press secretary 1997-2000): The papers were just going crazy with “Free Deirdre” and I thought: “Sod it, let’s get on this.” William Roache: The fact there isn’t a tight community on the Street today reflects the fact you don’t get streets like that any more. He passed the card to Tony Warren at a long-term story conference. He said: ‘What do you think of having this gay character?’ And Warren – and I’m not making this up – said: ‘Well, if we do there’s only one queen I want to play him and it’s Antony Cotton.” Then he opened the card. He’d seen me in Queer as Folk. Antony Cotton (Sean Tully 2003-present ): My part didn’t exist until I wrote to the then producer Tony Wood. I found a blank card with a picture of a dog with sunglasses on it, and wrote: “Dear Tony, if you ever fancy having a homosexual skipping down the cobbles of Coronation Street, I’m your man. I’ve got my house, my own car, I don’t do drugs and best of all I’m cheap. Come on Tony, you know you want it.”Kym previously told Loose Women that a return to Coronation Street isn't on the cards any time soon because she's too busy with other projects — including Waterloo Road and more of BBC One's Morning Live. This t-shirt is everything you've dreamed of and more. It feels soft and lightweight, with the right amount of stretch. It's comfortable and flattering for all. Antony Cotton: I used to have lunch once a month with Tony at the Midland hotel and he’d tell me about these amazing women he’d written for and who they were based on. And there were the old battle axes he’d grown up with, but a lot of it was the men who’d been on the scene in the 50s and 60s.

Anne Cunningham ( Linda Cheveski nee Tanner 1960-1968, 1984 ): Everyone spoke standard English in television plays in those days, but Granada was ahead of its time and there was this sort of northern vogue. Critics were divided. The Daily Mirror columnist Ken Irwin said the show was “doomed from the outset”. Mary Crozier of the Guardian was more positive, writing: “Mr Warren has pinpointed phrase and accent, humour and oddity, and if he can keep the mixture sharp and not put in too much treacle, it should cook up very well.”Helen Worth (Gail Platt 1974-present) : It was a time of change. When I joined, the greats were all there and it was still practically broadcast live. I remember sitting in Violet Carson’s [who played Ena Sharples] chair and she came into the room and just took one look at me and I scampered out of it. From the very beginning, the class snobbery that Warren fought against in 1960 has hung over the mythical squares, closes and streets of Britain’s soaps.