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From Eastenders to messy play
Friday, 3rd February 2012
Catherine Baigent plotted Tiffany's death in Eastenders. Now she's plotting sewing sessions with toddlers – and she's having a great time.
Catherine worked for 15 years as a script writer and editor, mainly on soap operas. She worked on everything from Byker Grove to Brookside, The Bill and Eastenders. It was a job she loved, starting out with a blank sheet of paper and making up what should happen in the soap for the next year. “As a script editor, I worked in a team of two or four editors and we would come up with a blueprint for… More >
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