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Something to do with Edward Woodward, the 78-year-old - actor who is most noted for his roles in The Wicker Man and Callan - who is to take on the role of Tommy Clifford, a charming man in his early 70s who appears in Albert Square in search of Minute Mart owner Patrick Trueman. He is playing the pub landlord I think.Originally Posted by LostVoodoo
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ah thanks for that.Something to do with Edward Woodward, the 78-year-old - actor who is most noted for his roles in The Wicker Man and Callan - who is to take on the role of Tommy Clifford, a charming man in his early 70s who appears in Albert Square in search of Minute Mart owner Patrick Trueman. He is playing the pub landlord I think.
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Rudolph Walker, who plays Patrick is 69 years old according to WikiSo his character would have been the right age to come to the UK from Trinidad, as lots of men of that age did at the end of the 1950s.
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i must have been the only one to enjoy this episode. Eastenders has been diarh recently, me and my friend were thinking of stopping watching, but i tuned in last night and it was a quality episode, well written and well acted, hats off to eastenders for that episode!
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I enjoyed the episode too because I did not know much at all about the riots and found it interesting to listen to Patrick talk about them. Don't like Theo much though:
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I enjoyed it too, I think it was interesting and people may think race isnt an important issue but I think it still is, not as bad as it was though
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the epi was alright, it dragged a bit though cos i dont think the foxes are interesting enough to pull off a whole epi by themselves. i dunno why there was such a big deal about it being an all black epi, i wouldnt even have noticed if i hadnt read about it first!
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The BBC has insisted that last week's seemingly-controversial 'all-black' episode of EastEnders was 'not unreasonable'.
Tuesday's instalment of the Albert Square drama, which averaged 8.37m (35.6%) viewers, focused entirely on the Trueman and Fox families, most notably Patrick Trueman's (Rudolph Walker) backstory.
Since its transmission, the public broadcaster has received 183 complaints about the episode's "unnecessary" content, while some viewers felt aggrieved by the nature of an 'all-black' cast. Some 57 complains, meanwhile, were logged before it aired.
The BBC responded to the concerns raised in an official statement on its complaints website, describing the episode's concentration on 'all-black' characters as "not unusual" and the references to the Notting Hill riots as "absolutely legitimate".
The statement read: "It is not unusual for EastEnders to devote a whole episode to a single storyline or set of characters, and this episode was one of these occasions.
"This was an opportunity to explore in some depth the background and experiences of Patrick Trueman, one of EastEnders' longest-standing and most popular characters."
It went on: "There have been many 'all-white' episodes in the show's 24-year history, and we do not believe there is any reason why an 'all-black' episode should not be included within the series.
"Some viewers felt it was unnecessary to raise the subject of the Notting Hill race riots. These form part of the character's experience, as well as British history, and we feel it was absolutely legitimate for these characters to discuss them."
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