EASTENDERS FLASHBACK

The writers of the Walford soap love an experiment, from live episodes and theatrical two-handers to visits from royalty and the borderline surrealism of bipolar Jean’s trip to the seaside earlier this year. This week, they’ve outdone themselves with a flashback to 1979, a formative time for rough ’n’ tumble

Mitchell brothers Phil and Grant

(Daniel Delaney and Teddy Jay, right). Jaime Winstone plays their formidable mother, Peggy, which is an especially sensible piece of casting as

Winstone did such a terrific job as Barbara

Windsor in the 2017 BBC biopic Babs. Monday,

7.30pm, BBC1