EastEnders

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EastEnders is a television programme in the United Kingdom. It is known as a soap opera. The programme goes against Coronation Street and Emmerdale. It has been running since 1985 and there has been over 3200 episodes.

The programme is located an imaginary area of East London called Walford. Like Coronation Street, most action centres around the local pub. The pub in EastEnders is called The Queen Vic. But unlike many soap operas in the United States or Latin America, EastEnders does not show a wonderful fantasy world of beautiful people but shows a very sad picture of "real life" in a "working class" area of the inner city.

Drug abuse, rape, racism, murder, kidnapping, prostitution, theft, senile dementia, arson and runaway children have all been part of various episodes of the programme.

Conflict between members of one family or between different families is often central to the storyline.

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