Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll is a six-part television mini-series which was written and created by Debbie Horsfield and directed by John Woods. It was produced by Wall to Wall for BBC One.
Originally shown in 1999, it was later adapted into a stage musical which appeared at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre in 2005.
Set in Eccles, a suburb of Manchester in 1965; the story focuses on twin sisters, Ellie and Arden Brookes. They live with their widow...
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Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll is a six-part television mini-series which was written and created by Debbie Horsfield and directed by John Woods. It was produced by Wall to Wall for BBC One.
Originally shown in 1999, it was later adapted into a stage musical which appeared at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre in 2005.
Set in Eccles, a suburb of Manchester in 1965; the story focuses on twin sisters, Ellie and Arden Brookes. They live with their widowed father and grandmother, and work in the family chip shop. Arden is confident and considered the 'pretty' one, Ellie the quiet and clever one. Irma is 'moral guardian' of the family, a woman hiding a terrible secret and controlling the lives of her son and granddaughters.
Irma's nephew, Norman Kershawe, proposes to Ellie on the girls' 18th birthday. Ellie thinks he intends to propose to Arden - particularly when he gets her to try the ring "for size" but it gets stuck. Ellie is about to remove it when Norman tells her they're engaged....
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