Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll

This BBC drama is a must see, and I feel sorry for anybody who hasn't seen it! Ellie and Arden are twins, but are completely different. Obsessed with boys and gorgeous, Arden is desperate to have a man. Ellie on the other hand, is an intellectual. She's desperate to go to university, but this is 1965, not exactly the era of women's rights. However, at her 18th birthday party, she finds herself engaged to Norman, her (much older) cousin.

Ellie and Arden work in Norman's chip shop, where all the riff raff go. As nicely brought up girls, their grandmother tells them, "serve them if you must but don't bring them back here. We don't want any deadbeats in this family." Enter the Ice Cubes.... three lively young musicians, stuck playing at talent contests, but with dreams of landing a record deal one day.

These three musicians soon show the twins there's more to life than doing what their grandmother tells them...

Sex Chips and Rock n Roll is a lively drama about living your dreams. Gillian Kearney is marvellous Ellie, and Sue Johnson strikes again with her performance as Irma, the girls' prim and proper, and yet sad, grandmother.

And then of course, there's Joe McFadden, who plays the gorgeous, Irish Dallas, who has the problem of both twins after him at once. But which will he choose? maybe he should flip a coin. "Heads the clever one, tails the pretty one....."