CORONATION STREET

Tracy has never forgiven Wendy’s affair with Ken, and that relationship looks unlikely to thaw when Wendy gives Ken tickets to a book launch at the Bistro for his birthday. A book launch? You don’t need two hands to count the people who can read in Weatherfield. Despite agreeing to discuss the play with Mary, Ken leaves when he gets a message from Wendy, and when Tracy hears Mary’s been ditched, she sees red at the launch.

Revenge is sweet, though, and when Tracy (below) apologises for making a scene, she offers to cook lunch for Wendy to welcome her to the family. What’s on the menu? Arsenic stew? Cobra curry? Far worse, and Ken is livid when Tracy serves up Deirdre’s speciality — stuffed marrow.

Oh, the memories. No one could deliver a line with such straightfaced genius as our dearly departed Anne Kirkbride as Deirdre, extolling the virtues of her stuffed marrow.

Poor Maria is receiving death threats once again and David has his suspicions that Max is behind it.