The Radford family are a British family who first appeared on the 2012
Channel 4
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documentary television programme ''15 Kids and Counting''. Subsequent annual updates focused on the last year in the Radford household. The last programme, ''22 Kids and Counting'', started airing on 9 January 2023 on
Channel 5.
[Dan Clarendo]
"Meet the British Duggars — The Radford Family Has Welcomed 20 Kids, Too!"
''In Touch'', 24 February 2018.
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 lives in a former care home in Morecambe
Morecambe ( ) is a seaside town and civil parish in the City of Lancaster district in Lancashire, England. It is in Morecambe Bay on the Irish Sea.
Name
The first use of the name was by John Whitaker in his ''History of Manchester'' (1771), ...
.[
The family owns and operates Radford's Pie Company, also known as Faraday's, a bakery in ]Heysham
Heysham ( ) is a coastal town in Lancashire, England, overlooking Morecambe Bay. It is a ferry port, with services to the Isle of Man and Ireland, and the site of two nuclear power stations.
Demography
Administratively, Heysham is part of the ...
, 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 22 children.]
References
External links
Radford's Pie Company official website
British families
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Bakeries of the United Kingdom
Television series about families
People from Morecambe