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🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Nolly.

Actor Helena Bonham Carter enjoys playing complex, dynamic roles. From Princess Margaret to Bellatrix Lestrange, she never shies away from complicated characters. This week, we talked with Helena about playing the trailblazing Noele Gordon in Russell T Davies’ Nolly, a role for which she earned a BAFTA Television award nomination for Leading Actress.

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0:38.3	For nearly two decades, Noel Gordon had been playing fan favorite Meg Mortimer in the A TV soap opera Crossroads.
0:46.0	Gordon's Meg ran the fictitious Crossroads Motel, a Midland's Pit Stop which she had converted
0:51.2	from her Georgian estate and now boasted 16
0:53.9	chalets. It was a role that brought Gordon countless awards and endless
0:58.4	adoration from fans who you'll remember from episode one turned up in the tens of thousands to see her character get married at Birmingham Cathedral in 1975
1:09.0	Gordon or Nolly she was called was a talent on screen and an icon in the real world.
1:15.9	After thousands of episodes of crossroads, Nollie was a household name, an actor so beloved
1:21.9	that she was dubbed Queen of the Midlands.
1:24.4	What could possibly go wrong?
1:26.4	But by 1981, she was out of a job,
1:30.0	fired from the very show into which she poured so much time, effort, and love.
1:35.0	Noll's infamous sacking came as a shock to just about everyone, including
1:39.7	Noel herself.
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