Judging the soaps.

Background Go on, admit it. However much you may dismiss soap operas, at some point in your life you’ve been fascinated by them. Maybe as a teenager coming home early from school, as a medical student taking a break from exams, or as a young parent at home with the children, you too have been drawn into the world of ‘The Street’ or ‘The Square’ – or even ‘The Police Station’. You too have been hooked by a serial drama on radio or television – fast-paced, plotdriven, character-heavy and significance-light, with several cliff-hanger story lines to draw addicts on from one episode to the next.