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Communication between citizens is essential to building lasting peace, but it has to be of the right kind.
Pobol y Cwm revolves around the lives of people in the fictional Welsh village of Cwmderi.
Product placement has been allowed on UK TV for more than a decade, but changing viewer habits mean it’s only recently come into its own as a revenue stream.
The show is being rebroadcast for a new generation and is more educational and political than it might have first appeared.
The drama around the revelations in Harry’s book are just the latest episode in the royal soap.
The word ‘feminism’ was unlikely to be heard in Neighbours’ early days, but today characters are talking about Clementine Ford.
The long-running queen of the soap-operas, the Bold and the Beautiful turns 35 this year. We’ve collected some of the strangest storylines from its many hundreds of episodes.
Soap operas, with their long and involved storytelling and large audience reach, can be uniquely positioned to enable narrative transportation.
The types of people who gathered daily to watch Neighbours are the same who backed Tony Blair in 1997.
After 37 years and nearly 9,000 episodes, Neighbours could be coming to an end.
Storylines warning of the dangers of alcoholism had more of a lasting effect than more formal health education.
For 20 years, Jodi McAlister has been watching The Bold and The Beautiful. Under lockdown, again, she finds comfort in the reliable rhythms of a slow-drip soap opera set in the world of high fashion.
Depictions of Indian life in cinema and soap operas have found particular affinity with communities in Northern Ghana.
The ABC’s new soap opera The Heights is a nuanced representation of the diversity and community of life on a social housing estate.
Why a show about village life in a fictional town somewhere in middle England has been making headline news.
It has been 30 years since EastEnders arrived on UK screens to begin chronicling the lives of the denizens of fictional Albert Square in east London. But the history of soap operas goes back a great deal…
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