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Comedy writer Eddie Braben explores his home town to meet the real people of Liverpool, including a street entertainer and a market trader. With a population that has halved in the last decade, Eddie laments the loss of the city's heart, and of some of its most famous sons and daughters. But there's still much to celebrate there: the Cavern Club that still attracts the world's music lovers; Europe's oldest Chinatown; the Mersey tunnels and two miles of promenade that runs alongside the River Mersey.

Born in Liverpool in 1930, Eddie Braben was best known as a scriptwriter for Morecambe and Wise. He died in 2013.

The centre of Liverpool was extensively redeveloped for the city's year as the European Capital of Culture in 2008, including the streets around Williamson Square, which feature significantly in this report.

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