Remembers…: 2022
Episode Guide
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Jeanette Winterson Remembers... Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jun 29, 2022
Jeanette Winterson looks back on the iconic drama series Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1989).
Bernard Hill Remembers... Boys from the Blackstuff
Jul 6, 2022
Bernard Hill looks back on the iconic drama series Boys from the Blackstuff (1982).
Colin Baker Remembers… The Roads to Freedom
Jul 29, 2022 · 11 min
Colin Baker looks back on one of his earliest TV roles and discusses the significance of acclaimed 13-part drama series 'The Roads to Freedom', which is being shown on television f
Hanif Kureishi Remembers… The Buddha of Suburbia
Aug 17, 2022 · 10 min
Writer Hanif Kureishi looks back on how his semi-autobiographical novel The Buddha of Suburbia became one of the defining BBC dramas of the 1990s. He discusses the ways in which it
Moira Armstrong and Vivien Heilbron Remember… Sunset Song
Aug 31, 2022 · 11 min
Actor Vivien Heilbron and director Moira Armstrong look back on the 1971 BBC Scotland drama Sunset Song, based on Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic novel. Together, the friends discus
Christopher Eccleston Remembers… Our Friends in the North
Sep 14, 2022 · 12 min
To mark the rescreening of Our Friends in the North, as part of the BBC’s centenary celebrations, Christopher Eccleston looks back on Peter Flannery’s acclaimed 1996 drama. Followi
Kenneth Branagh Remembers… Billy Plays
Oct 5, 2022 · 12 min
Kenneth Branagh looks back on his experiences working on the first major production of his career: Graham Reid’s Billy Plays trilogy. The three Play for Today dramas won great prai
David Harewood Remembers… A Man from the Sun
Oct 19, 2022 · 12 min
Actor David Harewood shares his impressions of John Elliot’s game-changing 1956 BBC drama, which explored the challenges and racism encountered by Windrush immigrants from the West
Siân Phillips Remembers… How Green Was My Valley
Nov 2, 2022 · 10 min
Award-winning actress Siân Phillips takes a look back at the BBC’s landmark 1975 adaptation of Richard Llewellyn’s classic novel How Green Was My Valley. Siân’s role as Beth, the m
Michael Dobbs Remembers… House of Cards
Nov 16, 2022 · 11 min
Author, politician and member of the House of Lords Michael Dobbs looks back on the TV drama that had 90s Britain hooked on political intrigue and infighting. Based on his best-sel
Alison Steadman Remembers… The Singing Detective
Nov 30, 2022 · 12 min
Alison Steadman looks back at Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective, hailed as one of the most important and influential TV dramas ever made, and once described by Stephen King as
Joe McFadden Remembers… The Crow Road
Dec 14, 2022 · 11 min
Considered one of the finest TV adaptations of a novel ever made for television, BBC Scotland’s The Crow Road was first broadcast in 1996, four years after the publication of Iain
Peter Kosminsky Remembers… Wolf Hall
Dec 19, 2022 · 15 min
Wolf Hall, one of the most critically acclaimed television dramas of recent years, was based on the first two of the late Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell novels and brought togethe
Richard Wilson Remembers… Tutti Frutti
Dec 26, 2022 · 11 min
It’s a trip down rock 'n' roll’s memory lane for Richard Wilson as he recalls his role as manager of The Majestics in John Byrne’s 1987 acclaimed TV drama series Tutti Frutti. When