- I'm going to watch this tonight (the replay at 10pm) - the first Eastenders episode featuring an entirely black cast in its 23-year history. I prefer Corrie, but Eastenders gives the Patrick Trueman character good lines. Yesterday, he had "I don't want any of the chocolates, it would spoil the taste of the rum."
- Tomorrow, at 11am, BBC Radio 4, this looks good: "What Happened to the Working Class" - "Sarfraz Manzoor on how Manchester has reinvigorated itself through its working class youth culture."
- Thursday, at 915pm, Nightwaves, BBC Radio 3, they have a programme "devoted to exploring the culture and politics of the creation of the atomic bomb." They will review "Doctor Atomic," a new opera from American minimalist composer John Adams, about the morality of Robert Oppenheimer.
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You watch Coronation Street? No way?
That conversation Patrick and the others had in that clip you linked to was probably the best thing that's been on Eastenders in its history. Colour aside, why can't all popular TV be as thought-provoking?
Way! It's usually better written than Eastenders. The problem with the "all black episode" was that it packed all the issues that should have been embedded in daily life into a half-hour. It reinforced the idea that only black people talk about racism, and they only do it behind closed doors.
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