Anne Kirkbride was interviewed in depth about her life outside of the show, from her birth in Oldham to her childhood in Saddleworth and her acting training at the Oldham Theatre Workshop. Her debut in television in Jack Rosenthal’s 1972 play Another Sunday and Sweet FA was covered which led to her appearance in Coronation Street later that year. The development of the character was charted with special emphasis on the two headline-making storylines of Deirdre’s affair with Mike Baldwin in 1983 and her imprisonment after being defrauded by bogus airline pilot Jon Lindsay in 1998.