The Radford family are a British family who first appeared in the 2012

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documentary television programme ''15 Kids and Counting'', which featured several large British families. This was followed by ''16 Kids and Counting'', exclusively about the Radfords, which aired after they welcomed another child. Subsequent annual or biennial updates focused on successive years with further pregnancies by the Radford matriarch, each increasing the count. Upon the programme 22 Kids and Counting, the format changed along with the couple's decision not to have more children of their own. ''22 Kids and Counting'' started airing on 9 January 2023 on Channel 5Dan Clarendo
"Meet the British Duggars — The Radford Family Has Welcomed 20 Kids, Too!"
''In Touch'', 24 February 2018. and became a multi-part, multi-season series under the same title, accompanied by a

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presence.

Family

Noel and Sue were both adopted as babies and met as children, then had their first child, Christopher, when Sue was 14 and Noel was 18. They then got married when Sue was 17 and Noel was 21.Adam Boult
"The mother from 19 Kids And Counting is now expecting her 20th child"
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'' 30 March 2017. The family now live in a former care home in

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. The family owns and operates Radford's Pie Company, also known as Faraday's, a bakery in

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, which they acquired in 1999."Britain's biggest family feature in new TV programme"
''The Visitor'', 9 January 2018. The 2018 programme ''20 Kids and Counting'' covered Sue and Noel's 25th wedding anniversary and the birth of their 20th child. As of 2021, Sue and Noel have had 22 children. While later episodes of the programme do feature pregnancies of some of Sue and Noel's older children, the series title has remained the same since it became ''22 Kids and Counting'', with the number reflecting how often Sue gave birth, and her children's kids coming under the "…and Counting" rubric.

References

External links

Radford's Pie Company official website
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