Neighbours

As Neighbours ends after 37 years, our expert panel of a screenwriter, a soap specialist and a superfan explain why it will be so missed.

As the show comes to an end we look back on the soap that breezed onto our daytime screens, drawing us into an exotic world of Aussie slang and eternal sunshine – and changing the face of British television forever.

Migrants, illegal or otherwise, are talked about a lot. But behind the statistics and scaremongering are real people, often caught in horrific circumstances. Writer-director Jenny Lu’s new film. ‘The Receptionist’ tells the story of women in an illegal massage parlour