Hollyoaks will air a special episode on Tuesday dedicated to the topic of unconscious bias, with Kelle Bryan, who plays Martine Devereux, giving an inspiring and powerful monologue.

The Channel 4 soap has also created a "Don't Filter Feelings" podcast episode as a companion piece to the episode.

Martine finds a lump on her breast, and her love rival Grace Black (Tamara Wall) also needs medical attention on the same day.

The episode will chart the women's differing experiences through the day due to Martine being black, with microaggressions and uncomfortable encounters being highlighted and compared to Grace's experience as a white woman.

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Soap expert Sharon Marshall spoke to This Morning hosts Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary about the episode, and said: "I think it's the best episode I've seen in yonks.

"I watched the preview last night, I text the bosses afterwards and said 'this is brilliant'.

"It's not a big explosion, it's not all wow and flash and bang, it's exploring unconscious bias.

Martine Devereux, played by Kelle Bryan, delivers a powerful monologue (
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The episode charts Martine's experience as a black woman needing medical attention (
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"Apparently they went all around the writers room and asked 'what is worrying you?' And this is what one of the writers came back and said.

"There is a monologue tonight from Martine from Kelle, it will blow you away, if this isn't in the awards ceremonies, I will be surprised."

"It should be in schools, it's brilliant," added Sharon.

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Richard Blackwood, who plays Felix Westwood, who Martine and Grace are competing for, said on the Hollyoaks podcast: "It’s really weird because of all of those micros (aggressions) that were shown, I’ve been through, but in the previous 10 years it wasn’t micro it was just in your face.

"So it’s nice that Karla could teach me the new way that people are showing their racism."

* Hollyoaks airs weeknights at 6:30pm on Channel 4, with the next episode at 7pm on E4.