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Rupert Smith
TV tie-ins
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EastEnders: 20 Years in Albert Square (BBC Books 2005)

There was a distinct lack of ballyhoo around the 20th birthday of BBC1’s long-running soap – the show was, in fact, going through a bit of a crisis at the time, and nobody was in the mood for a celebration. The result was that this book got a lot of attention in the press as the only official output to mark the anniversary.

I spent months trawling through the synopses of every single episode of EastEnders ever broadcast, and nearly went mad in the process, but the result is a definitive guide to who did what to whom in Albert Square from 1985 to 2005. If you can’t remember the name of Arthur’s posh mistress, or you long to relive Walford’s first gay kiss, this is the book for you. There are also as many pictures of Punk Mary as I could reasonably persuade them to include.