Actor who played the matriarch Irene Raymond in EastEnders and the hard-drinking Inspector Gina Gold in The Bill
June 2024
Nicholas Ball obituary
Stage and screen actor best known for playing the eponymous cockney private eye in the 1970s TV series Hazell
April 2024
Brief letters
Ridiculous plots are killing off our soaps
Brief letters: Plots gone to pot | The Guardian fold | Good innings | Libel claims | April fool challenge | Best time to shower
February 2024
This much I know
Himesh Patel: ‘I was still working as a paperboy when I was in EastEnders’
‘Don’t tell him, Pike!’ How Ian Lavender gave Dad’s Army its most adored moment
Ian Lavender obituary
EastEnders actor, 27, laughs off criticism that he is too old to play school bully
January 2024
Ian Pepperell obituary
Actor who played Roy Tucker in the long-running BBC Radio 4 drama serial The Archers
December 2023
The Archers actor Ian Pepperell dies aged 53
Actor who played Roy Tucker and appeared in EastEnders died after long illness, BBC says
November 2023
How Bobby Brazier charmed Britain: ‘He has a sparkle just like his mum’
Anna Scher obituary
October 2023
‘Tunbridge Wells sells out time and time again’: the bonkers craze for karaoke with Barry from Eastenders
With Barrioke, actor Shaun Williamson is leaning into the popularity of his much-memed singing style – and finding an audience hungry for nostalgia and silliness
August 2023
Jane Whittenshaw, EastEnders and Call the Midwife actor, dies
Flashback
EastEnders star Charlie Brooks looks back: ‘We were just two kids from Wales. That fed into never quite feeling worthy’
June 2023
Rose Ayling-Ellis: ‘I felt free to be me’
She brought the nation to a standstill on Strictly, but for the award-winning deaf actor it was ‘only the start’. As she embraces even greater stardom, her priority will always be to build change for disabled people
April 2023
BBC serves Bucks Fizz as Eurovision taster in popular shows for finals week
Members of band will appear in special episodes of EastEnders and Pointless Celebrities in run-up to Liverpool final
March 2023
Brief letters
There are no words for St Patrick’s Day puzzle
Brief letters: Wordsearch | Carnaptious people | Misheard menus | Children’s TV | EastEnders v BBC Singers
February 2023
‘Please don’t email me’: the secretive collectors of obscure TV memorabilia
They spend thousands on pieces of Del Boy’s carpet and props from Noel’s House Party – and they’d rather you didn’t know too much about them. We step inside the world of television nostalgia
November 2022
Bill Treacher obituary
Bill Treacher who played Arthur Fowler in EastEnders dies at 92