In case anyone is interested, some members of the Earl of Stamford Morris (including yours truly on accordion!) will be appearing on Hollyoaks as part of the 'Heritage Fayre' storyline.

The episode is to be screened between 6:00 and 7:00pm on Wednesday August 22nd (Channel 4), repeated on E4 on Thursday, and the 'omnibus' on Sunday (Channel 4).

The director, Paul Carney, was (to his credit) keen to make the scenes as realistic as possible, and used a real morris side instead of actors pretending. It also swelled the side's coffers quite nicely, thank you!

It was an interesting day out for us - the set is actually at Mersey TV's headquarters (Campus Manor, Childwall), where Brookside is also filmed. We were there from 8:00am until 9:00pm - it will be interesting to see how that relates to actual air time!!

I don't know if any UK channels are available 'across the pond', but E4 is only available on digital TV over here.