Watching Eastenders from the Very Beginning

Record unemployment; get rich quick schemes; and lying to keep your job; fictional London in 1985 doesn't sound all that different from real London in 2026. Comedians Kathryn Mather@watchingeastenders and Spring Kathryn Day @springkathryndaycomedian are watching EastEnders from the very beginning because they both have OCD and can't start near the end! It's loads of fun as there is a murder investigation underway as well as a MLM scam that traveled the world via chain letter, power harassment and a

We live in turbulent times but was the past every really that simple? Comedians Kathryn Mather and Spring Kathryn Day are watching EastEnders from the very beginning. On this episode we watch and judge the life choices of fictional 1980's characters life choices with Schadenfreude heavy glee. We talk about smoking while pregnant, cockney slang, gambling, cheating on your wife and the skills of aa young Stewart Lee look-alike making a mockery of the long lost art of stealing cigarettes from your

Spring 'Kathryn' Day and Kathryn Mather are watching Eastenders from the very beginning. In this second ever episode, we watch Den and Angie's Wedding Anniversary while discussing: lunar astrology, infidelity, drinking while pregnant and facing your local bully who you may also be physically attracted to. It's a gossipy episode where we judge the fictional characters of Den, Angie, Pauline, Arthur, Ethel, Dr. Legg, Ali and Nick Cotton from forty years ago. It is very satisfying. People are pining

Comedians Kathryn Mather ( / beforenowafterthen and Spring "Kathryn" Day ( / springkathryndaycomedian ) are looking for answers in the legendary soap opera EastEnders. They are on a mission to watch EastEnders from the very beginning to parcel this time capsule of a soap opera that was the first of it's kind to integrate audience research as it dealt with social issues of the day. American transplant to the UK Spring wants to get filled in on the British culture she missed back when she was a child