Just Another Day

Just Another Day was a BBC documentary series, that followed John Pitman behind the scenes of places. In 1986, Just Another Day came to Elstree Studios to feature extensive interviews with former EastEnders stars (cast and crew). The fourty-minute programme was broadcast on Friday 14th November 1986 at 9.00pm on BBC Two and the interviews that were featured were with Susan Tully, Wendy Richard, Leslie Grantham and June Brown.

The programme was produced by Ann Paul, directed by Roger Mills and edited by Christine Garner.


 * BBC Genome synopsis
 * with John Pitman Six films which go behind the scenes of places which are part of the British way of life. It's spring in Albert Square. The daffs are out; the trees are in leaf and love is in the air. The leaves are made of material and tied on with cotton, and Den, Angie, Dot, Ethel and the gang are shivering on the outside set at Elstree. Today Michelle and Lofty get engaged on a bench in the square. Lofty is frozen; Michelle is laughing. She's got her baby to keep her warm - a large vest padded with foam and muslin - 'jolly useful place to keep a hot water bottle or a hip flask' says Susan Tully who plays Michelle. It's not easy living in a fantasy world. People keep asking Susan where her baby is. 'I tell them the truth - it's hanging up in the dressing room.' As the day goes on, there's tragic news about Willy; Wendy Richard talks about her private life, and Leslie Grantham explains why he's writing to the Guinness Book of Records. Oh, and June Brown - Dot - says she's not worried about people from the past selling her secrets. 'My acquaintances were far too elegant,' she says, 'and anyway, most of them are dead.