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The writer and creator behind some of TV鈥檚 best-loved soaps and drama tells Jill Halfpenny and Jason Mohammad what issues he鈥檇 be covering if Brookside was still on the air. The popular Liverpool-based soap ran for 21 years between 1982 and 2003, and covered hard-hitting issues from domestic abuse to incest.

Coronation Street recently came in for criticism recently after a storyline dealt with male rape, a topic that 鈥楬ollyoaks鈥�, also conceived by Redmond, first covered in British soap.

鈥淚f you say soaps aren鈥檛 the place to deal with these issues, then life isn鈥檛 the place to deal with these issues鈥�, Phil told Good Morning Sunday.