高级听力 Unit 7 Part 4

一个似乎是非一线女演员的采访，讲述了伦敦东部一些 spoil children 和城市中弱势群体的生活，更多倾向于后者。

About Life in the East End of London

F: Basically, the soap opera is about life in the East End London, that is, the Cockney way of life but that isn’t the most important thing about the programme; that isn’t the reason for its success. The reason for its success is it deals with social problem that other soap operas have never dealt with before. I mean our aim isn’t to shock but it’s just that we can’t, we believe that we couldn’t do a realistic situation drama about the East End without incorporating topics like drugs, homosexuality, divorce, adultery, all those things that other soap operas have only skimmed on ...

M: Prison ...

F: ... Very nicely ...

M: .. prison and breaking the law ...

F: Prison, nervous breakdowns -- I mean it’s not just all gloom and doom ... There is a lot of humor and there is a lot of love and warmth in the programme as well; so really if anyone says what is EastEnders about? It’s not about Cockneys, I mean, because the situations that we deal with are characteristic of a lot of inner city communities all over Britain, and I’m sure, in other cities in the world. But it’s just that we cover them with an edge on how a Cockney and how a Cockney community reacts and deals with those problems.

M: What part do you play?

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