Advent Calendar 2019 Day 20: How We Used To Live, 1978

Given it was in production sporadically between 1968 and 2002 Yorkshire's drama-documentary schools programme got through a mass of actors so it was inevitable some would find good work elsewhere. Lena Headey, Peter Howitt, Corrie's Ian Mercer and Emmerdale's Cy Chadwick all passed through the fictional town of Bradley but Joanne Whalley is the young actor best known for taking part, seventeen years old here as the Hughes family celebrate a traditional Christmas in 1880 - aired as far back as 27th November, oddly. Maybe they should have rehearsed that bit with feathers at the end.