question: Blanche Hunt was the mother of what award winning character played by Anne Kirkbride?
answer: Deirdre Barlow
context: Title: Mel Novak
  Passage: Mel Novak is an American award winning character actor who is best known for villainous roles in "Black Belt Jones", Bruce Lee's "Game of Death", and Chuck Norris' "An Eye for an Eye".  He is also known for doing all of his own stunts and fighting scenes.
  Title: Patricia Cutts
  Passage: Patricia "Pat" Cutts (20 July 1926 – 6 September 1974) was an English film and television actress.  She was the first person to portray the character of Blanche Hunt in ITV soap opera Coronation Street, appearing in two episodes.  After her death, Maggie Jones took over the role.
  Title: Another Sunday and Sweet F.A.
  Passage: Another Sunday and Sweet F.A. is a television play (a one-off drama) written by Jack Rosenthal and directed by Michael Apted which was first broadcast on 8 January 1972 in Granada Television's "Sunday Night Theatre" strand.  It stars David Swift, Freddie Fletcher, and Gordon McGrase.  It also features Anne Kirkbride, who as a result of her performance was cast in "Coronation Street" in the role of Deirdre Barlow.
  Title: Eileen Grimshaw
  Passage: Eileen Hazel Phelan (also Grimshaw) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, "Coronation Street".  Portrayed by Sue Cleaver, the character first appeared on-screen during the episode airing on 3 May 2000.  She is perhaps best known for her friendships with Lloyd Mullaney (Craig Charles), Steve McDonald (Simon Gregson), Deirdre Barlow (Anne Kirkbride) and Liz McDonald (Beverley Callard).
  Title: Deirdre Barlow
  Passage: Deirdre Anne Barlow (also Hunt, Langton and Rachid) was a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, "Coronation Street", played by Anne Kirkbride.  She made her first screen appearance during the episode broadcast on 20 November 1972, her final appearance was on 8 October 2014.
  Title: Anne Kirkbride
  Passage: Anne Kirkbride (21 June 1954 – 19 January 2015) was an English actress, known for her long-running role as Deirdre Barlow in the ITV soap "Coronation Street", which she played for over 42 years from 1972 to 2015.  For this role, she posthumously received the Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2015 British Soap Awards.
  Title: Peter Barlow (Coronation Street)
  Passage: Peter Francis Barlow is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, "Coronation Street", played by Chris Gascoyne since 2000.  The character of Peter was born on screen during an episode broadcast on 5 April 1965, he was born along with his twin sister Susan (Katie Heannau, Wendy Jane Walker, Suzy Patterson, Joanna Foster) to parents Ken (William Roache) and Valerie Barlow (Anne Reid).  Gascoyne made his first appearance in the role during the 40th anniversary live episode airing on 8 December 2000.  Gascoyne left the role in 2003 and returned in 2007 for a brief stint before returning full-time in 2008.  In January 2014 it was confirmed that Gascoyne would be leaving once again.  His final scenes aired on 14 November 2014.  In April 2015, it was announced that Gascoyne would reprise the role for two episodes for the funeral of Deirdre Barlow (Anne Kirkbride) and Peter returned on 15 July 2015 and left once again on 16 July.  In July 2016, it was announced that Peter would be returning as a regular character and he returned on 17 October 2016.
  Title: Jack Kirkbride
  Passage: Jack Kirkbride (31 March 1923 – 1 October 2006) was an English cartoonist, and father to Anne Kirkbride, the actress who played Deirdre Barlow in the ITV soap opera "Coronation Street".
  Title: Blanche Hunt
  Passage: Blanche Hunt (also Linfield) was a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, "Coronation Street".  She was originally played by Patricia Cutts; however, the actress committed suicide after appearing in just two episodes in 1974.  Maggie Jones took over the role, playing Blanche in over 830 episodes from 1974 to her death in 2009.  The character subsequently died off screen in 2010.  Blanche was the mother of Deirdre Barlow (Anne Kirkbride), grandmother of Tracy Barlow (Kate Ford) and great-grandmother of Amy.  Her storylines have revolved around her family life, various romances and her "acerbic tongue".  The character's "gallows humour" has been well received by critics, and saw Jones win The British Soap Award for "Best Comedy Performance" in 2005 and 2008.  Blanche has been described as "a true "Coronation Street" icon".
  Title: Maggie Jones (actress)
  Passage: Margaret "Maggie" Jones (21 June 1934 – 2 December 2009) was an English actress, best known for playing Blanche Hunt in the British soap opera "Coronation Street", a role which she first portrayed in 1974 and played regularly from the late 1990s until shortly before her death.  She won the British Soap Award for Best Comedy Performance in 2005 and 2008.
citations: Anne Kirkbride Blanche Hunt