Coronation Street Icons: Ken Barlow

Profiles of Weatherfield's best loved characters, beginning with Ken Barlow

Narrator Sally Lindsay focuses on Coronation Street's legendary characters, beginning with its longest serving resident, Ken Barlow. There's a look at the best moments of William Roache's six decades in Weatherfield, from the show's first episode in 1960 right up until the present day. Chris Gascoyne (Peter) and Kate Ford (Tracy) reveal how William thrives on physical scenes, and the actor himself admits his passion for an on-screen punch up, and how he has always tried to make them look as real as possible