Soaps are seldom more explosive than they are at Christmas! But how good is your festive soap knowledge...
Does your family sit down full of turkey on Christmas Day evening to watch the Eastenders Christmas special? Or are you likely to hunker down on Boxing Day instead and watch Corrie on catch up?
Whatever your favourite soap, you can't deny that around Christmas time the drama gets cranked up!
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These huge upside-down linocuts showing clothed couples having sex, with a white circle at the pivotal point, are ‘like Picasso on schnapps’
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