An all-star cast including Jane Horrocks (Little Voice, The Street), Jessie Wallace (EastEnders, Marie Lloyd), Celia Imrie (After You've Gone, Kingdom), Lynda Baron (Open All Hours, Fat Friends) and Christian McKay (Me And Orson Wells) have just begun filming a new BBC Four drama on location in Manchester, telling the story of how Coronation Street was born.
The one-off drama made for BBC Four, by ITV Studios, tells the story of the birth in 1960 of Britain's longest-running soap, which was very nearly called Florizel Street, and how creator Tony Warren, played by David Dawson (Gracie, The Secret Diary Of A Call Girl) fulfilled his dream of bringing characters from the Salford he knew and loved to the small screen.