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How We Used To Live

1968 – present · ITV1
7 seasons · 91 episodes
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How We Used to Live is a British educational historical television drama written by Freda Kelsall and sometimes narrated by Redvers Kyle and John Crosse, both employed as continuity announcers at Yorkshire Television at the time of production. Production began in 1968 at the YTV studios in Leeds. The series traced the lives and fortunes of various fictional Yorkshire families from the Victorian era until the 1960s, in and around the fictional town of Bradley, using self-contained short dramas interspersed with archive footage.

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Peter Howitt
Sue Jenkins
Jane Hazlegrove
Diana Davies
Lena Headey
Grace Palmer
David Scase
George Holroyd
William Ash
Peter Hodgkins
Tony Benn

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Status
Returning Series
Type
Scripted
First aired
Sep 24, 1968
Original language
EN
Country
GB

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