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Summary
Bread is a British television sitcom, written by Carla Lane, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC1 from 1 May 1986 to 3 November 1991. The series focused on the devoutly-Catholic and extended Boswell family of Liverpool, in the district of Dingle, led by its matriarch Nellie through a number of ups and downs as they tried to make their way through life in Thatcher's Britain with no visible means of support. The street shown at the start of each programme is Elswick Street. A family called Boswell had also featured in Lane's earlier sitcom The Liver Birds and Lane admitted in interviews that the two families were probably related. Nellie's feckless and estranged husband, Freddie, left her for another woman known as 'Lilo Lill'. Her children Joey, Jack, Adrian, Aveline and Billy continued to live in the family home in Kelsall Street and contributed money to the central family fund, largely through benefit fraud and the sale of stolen goods.
Cast
Jean Boht
Nick Conway
Jonathon Morris
Kenneth Waller
Ronald Forfar
Victor McGuire
Bryan Murray
Giles Watling
Hilary Crowson
Peter Howitt
Gilly Coman
Eileen Pollock
Graham Bickley
Melanie Hill
Pamela Power
Deborah Grant
Peter Byrne
Joanna Phillips-Lane
Caroline Milmoe
Jenny Jay
J.G. Devlin
Charles Lawson
Simon Rouse
Rita Tushingham
Georgina Smith
Sylvie Gatrill
Sharon Byatt
Reginald Marsh
Katy Carmichael
Roy Brandon
Gerry White
Peter Clapham
Philip O'Brien
Evie Garratt
Mary Maude
James Culshaw
Ann Haydn-Edwards
Mark Reader
John Laing
Marie Jelliman
Hilary Welles
Patricia Martinelli
Bernard Merrick
Pauline Amos
Barry McCarthy
Pauline Chamberlain
Michael J. Jackson
Christopher Ellison
Tom Price
Mandy Walsh
Leslie Rogers
Tony Scoggo
Barry Woolgar
Myfanwy Talog
Gladys Ambrose
Brian Croucher
Ken Sharrock
Al T. Kossy
John Woodnutt
Terry Lennaine
Paul Toothill
Susanna Page
Alan Bird
Nick Maloney
Steve Calrow
Peter Colligan
Andrew Hilton
Helen Martin
Carl Rice
Martin Buchan
David Williams
Eddie Ross
Ben Davis
Josie Kidd
Janet Davies
Pamela Sholto
Barbara New
Ishia Bennison
Jackie Downey
Robbie Dee
Tom Ryan
Noel Collins
Danny Cunningham
Harry Goodier
Joanne Zorian
Tim Dantay
John Wild
Jimmy Wilde
Charles Pemberton
Michael Atkinson
John Thomalla
Shevaun Briars
Eric Wyn
Derek Deadman
Tommy Wright
Christian Ealey
Alexander Green
Viv Molyneux
Sharon Power
David Hanson
Joe Manning Wilson
Jo Manning Wilson
Gina Maher
Cathy Flanagan
Frank Vincent
Pamela Cundell
Duncan Gould
Peter Terry
Jean Challis
Campbell Morrison
Anthony Dutton
Christine Kavanagh
Chrissie Clark
Barry Martin
Helene Hunt
Andrew Tourell
Pauline Daniels
David Beale
Michael Stroud
Robert East
Patrick Nyland
Sheila Fay
Arthur Cox
Roy Heather
Terry Melia
Stuart Fell
Rex Robinson
Roger Walker
Carolyn Lyster
Mark Moraghan
Peter Christian
Jacob Abraham
Jon Croft
Geoff Atwell
Barbara Halliwell
Nick Stringer
Linda Beckett
Peter John
Greg Archen
Neil Lewis
Robert Wesley
Andrea Marshall
Ailsing Reynolds
John Prince
Linda McCartney
Paul McCartney
Christopher Gray
Carol Quin
Julia Sharon
Bill Monks
Sonia
Elsie Kelly
Jennie Goossens
Anthony Benson
Ina Clough
Danny McCall
Louise Duprey
Michael Angelis
James McMartin
Don Hall
John Dryden
Charles Simon
Mark Curry
Gerry Lee Shaw
Tom Williamson
Lyndam Gregory
Matthew Dale-Grey
Ian Burford
Lynn Corrie
Michele Gaffney
Michael Strobel
Steve Ramsden
Trevor Danby
Gerard Bostock
Hugo Conlon
Paula Baines
Michelle Bathgate
Jeanette Hodgson
Joan Heath
Bryan Reynolds
Tony Nyland
Al Hunter Ashton
Mark Jordon
Greg Ellis
Joyce Windsor
Sunetra Sarker
David Quilter
Malcolm Scates
Roger Martin
Peter Christian
David Monico
Lia Williams
Crew
Creator
Carla Lane
Status:
Ended
Original Language:
English
Type:
Scripted
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