Best-selling author Maeve Binchy is a huge Coronation Street fan. She's very kindly written about her love of Corrie, exclusively for the Coronation Street blog. Visit Maeve Binchy's website.
Maeve Binchy, novelist, never misses Coronation Street!
"As soon as I hear the Corrie theme I pour the first glass of wine of the day. Then I sit down and am happily lost in Weatherfield. I have been watching it for well over forty years. My mother and I used to marvel at the three old dears sipping their milk stout in the snug. It seemed a safe, cosy world where everyone looked out for each other and no one had time to be lonely. The years went on, the characters grew up and grew old with us all. Some of them never looked old; like Ken, who seemed to grow more and more luxuriant hair, Liz seemed to attract younger and younger men and Gail never learned to be remotely mellow. Sometimes I used to wonder was everyone’s neighbourhood so hothouse and sexually active as the Street seems to be. Quite probably they are, and I am out of step.
I have always been an unashamed groupie for Corrie. I went on the guided tour at Granada and got myself photographed outside the Rovers Return. Our two lovely little rescue cats are called Fred and Audrey - because the male one is big and bluff and generally decent, while the female is elegant, well-groomed and flighty - exactly like Audrey and the late Fred Elliott. To me they are absolutely real people and I hope they will keep going for years and years."
"As soon as I hear the Corrie theme I pour the first glass of wine of the day. Then I sit down and am happily lost in Weatherfield. I have been watching it for well over forty years. My mother and I used to marvel at the three old dears sipping their milk stout in the snug. It seemed a safe, cosy world where everyone looked out for each other and no one had time to be lonely. The years went on, the characters grew up and grew old with us all. Some of them never looked old; like Ken, who seemed to grow more and more luxuriant hair, Liz seemed to attract younger and younger men and Gail never learned to be remotely mellow. Sometimes I used to wonder was everyone’s neighbourhood so hothouse and sexually active as the Street seems to be. Quite probably they are, and I am out of step.
I have always been an unashamed groupie for Corrie. I went on the guided tour at Granada and got myself photographed outside the Rovers Return. Our two lovely little rescue cats are called Fred and Audrey - because the male one is big and bluff and generally decent, while the female is elegant, well-groomed and flighty - exactly like Audrey and the late Fred Elliott. To me they are absolutely real people and I hope they will keep going for years and years."