Audio interview: Corrie producer defends Hayley's suicide storyline

(This post was originally posted by Flaming Nora on the Coronation Street Blog January 2013, reposted to this blog with permission.)

Coronation Street Producer Stuart Blackburn was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Today programme this week.  He was talking about Hayley's right-to-die storyline and defends it, saying it does not advocate "copycat suicides".

He talks about Coronation Street's resposibility to portray this storyline correctly and respectfully and how Corrie has worked with The Samaritans on this storyline too.

Stuart is the second man to start talking in the interview, so keep listening...  

You can listen to the interview by clicking on the link below.

Listen to ‘Coronation Street ‘not advocating’ character's suicide’ on Audioboo

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