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This Happy Breed written by Noel Coward performed by John Moffat, Rosemary Leach, Julia Swift and Classic Radio Theatre Team on Audio CD (Abridged)

This Happy Breed written by Noel Coward performed by John Moffat, Rosemary Leach, Julia Swift and Classic Radio Theatre Team on Audio CD (Abridged)£29.99

John Moffatt and Rosemary Leach star in this BBC Radio 4 production of Noel Coward's patriotic play about the ups and downs of a working-class family between 1919 and 1939. "This Happy Breed" opens in 1919, when the Gibbons family have just moved to their smart new home in the suburbs of South London. Against a background of social change and national upheaval spanning twenty years, the family celebrate their own triumphs and deal with their personal traumas.

Just Julie written by Julie Goodyear performed by Julie Goodyear on Audio CD (Abridged)

Just Julie written by Julie Goodyear performed by Julie Goodyear on Audio CD (Abridged)
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ISBN:  9780230014398
Genre - Main:  Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Autobiography
Duration:  180 mins
Length:  Abridged
Author:  Julie Goodyear
Performer 1:  Julie Goodyear

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For twenty-five years, Julie Goodyear became part of everyone’s family when she played Bet Lynch, the loveable brassy barmaid of the Rovers Return in ‘Coronation Street’. Now, at sixty-four (the age her mother was when she died), Julie feels the time is right to tell her amazing life story. Julie Goodyear 's...

father walked out on the family soon after Julie's birth so Julie was brought up by her mother Alice and stepfather. Her upbringing in Manchester was impoverished but Julie coped largely through the love for her spiritualist grandmother, who Julie would accompany when she was called upon by the local community to lay out the dead.

At just thirteen, Julie had to deal with her beloved grandmother’s death when she was found in a canal. Julie fell pregnant at sixteen, bringing shame and embarrassment, before marrying Ray Sutcliffe. The marriage only lasted three years. In 1966 Julie made a six-week appearance in Coronation Street as Bet Lynch from Elliston's Raincoat Factory, a role which made her Britain's best-loved barmaid and a cultural institution.

In 1979, during a routine check up, Julie discovered she had cervical cancer and had two operations. At the time she was given a year to live. Various liaisons during the ensuing decade included Julie’s first foray into a same sex relationship with her housekeeper. In 1987 Julie left Coronation Street for a while to nurse her mother Alice who was dying of terminal cancer.

Julie finally quit the series on 2 October 1995 after walking away with a lifetime Achievement Award at the first National Television Awards. In 1996 she was awarded an OBE. Julie’s much anticipated autobiography reveals, for the first time and with incredible candour, the truth, sadness and spirit behind this larger than life woman.

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