Remembers…: 2023

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Michael Jayston Remembers... Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Jan 2, 2023

Michael Jayston looks back on the acclaimed drama series Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979).

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Glenda Jackson Remembers... Elizabeth R

Mar 29, 2023

Double Oscar winner Glenda Jackson remembers the role that brought her back to television after the huge success she had found on the big screen.

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Duncan Preston Remembers... Pat and Margaret

May 17, 2023

Actor Duncan Preston introduces Victoria Wood's comedy drama about two ill-matched sisters.

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Stephen Poliakoff Remembers… She's Been Away

Jun 21, 2023 · 12 min

Stephen Poliakoff introduces his drama about an unexpected pact between two women.

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Gyles Brandreth Remembers… Hinge and Bracket

Jul 11, 2023 · 14 min

Gyles Brandreth remembers the comedy and musical duo Hinge and Bracket.

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Alan Bennett Remembers… An Englishman Abroad

Jul 12, 2023 · 13 min

Alan Bennett remembers his 1983 television drama, based on the true story of a chance meeting in Moscow between actress Coral Browne and British defector Guy Burgess.

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Zoë Wanamaker Remembers… Bowie and Baal

Jul 26, 2023 · 10 min

Zoë Wanamaker remembers the 1982 BBC adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s first play, Baal, in which she appeared with David Bowie.

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Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice Remember… Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

Aug 1, 2023 · 29 min

It’s now 50 years since we first met and fell for accident-prone Frank Spencer and his long-suffering wife Betty in the very first episode of Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em. In all that

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Martin Amis, Money and Memories with William Boyd

Aug 2, 2023 · 13 min

Novelist William Boyd looks back on his long friendship with fellow writer Martin Amis, who died in May 2023 at the age of 73. Boyd’s focus is on what many consider to be Martin’s

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Sir Derek Jacobi Remembers… I, Claudius

Aug 16, 2023 · 14 min

Sir Derek Jacobi remembers the landmark 1976 TV series I, Claudius.

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Edward Heath Remembered by Michael Cockerell

Sep 11, 2023 · 14 min

Award-winning documentary maker Michael Cockerell is a master of the political profile, with a reputation for uncovering the human side of the men and women of Westminster and for

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Amanda Burton Remembers… Silent Witness

Sep 13, 2023 · 14 min

Contains some upsetting scenes. When the BBC’s long-running Silent Witness first combined doctors, DNA and detective work back in 1996, nobody could have known that the show that c

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Barbara Castle Remembered by Michael Cockerell

Sep 18, 2023 · 14 min

Acclaimed political profiler Michael Cockerell tells the story behind his encounter with one of the grand dames of Westminster, the formidable Labour MP Barbara Castle. A female ic

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Jed Mercurio Remembers… Cardiac Arrest

Sep 20, 2023 · 12 min

Line of Duty writer Jed Mercurio looks back on the first drama he wrote and the start of his extraordinary journey from junior doctor to award-winning TV showrunner. The acclaimed

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Roy Jenkins Remembered by Michael Cockerell

Sep 25, 2023 · 13 min

Political interviewer Michael Cockerell introduces his acclaimed profile of Roy Jenkins, the man who, as home secretary in the 1960s, helped transform British society by changing l

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David Tennant Remembers… Hamlet

Oct 1, 2023 · 16 min

David Tennant looks back on the role he time-travelled into after leaving the Tardis, playing Hamlet in Greg Doran’s award-winning 2008 production for the Royal Shakespeare Company

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Dame Janet Suzman Remembers… The Wars of the Roses

Oct 1, 2023 · 12 min

Dame Janet Suzman looks back on her role as Joan of Arc in the BBC adaptations of Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses. Under the direction of John Barton and Peter Hall at the Royal Sh

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Gregory Doran Remembers… Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

Oct 8, 2023 · 14 min

Gregory Doran, former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, looks back on the challenges he faced bringing together a cast of acclaimed actors and even members of the

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Sir Simon Russell Beale Remembers… The Hollow Crown

Oct 14, 2023 · 14 min

Actor Simon Russell Beale looks back on the The Hollow Crown, the BBC’s 2012 adaptations of the most vital of Shakespeare’s history plays: Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Par

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Damian Lewis, Matthew Macfadyen & Peter Kosminsky Remember… Warriors

Oct 18, 2023 · 29 min

Actors Damian Lewis and Matthew Macfayden and director Peter Kosminsky reunite to look back on 1999’s BBC drama Warriors and the roles that first set Lewis and Macfayden on the roa

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Hugh Quarshie Remembers… Othello

Oct 22, 2023 · 14 min

Hugh Quarshie looks back on his highly praised interpretation of Othello in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2015 production, directed by Iqbal Khan. He considers the extra responsi

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Dame Helen Mirren Remembers… As You Like It

Oct 29, 2023 · 13 min

Dame Helen Mirren looks back on one of her earliest television roles, filmed before she’d become a household name and international star, playing Rosalind in the BBC’s 1978 product

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Margi Clarke Remembers… Making Out

Nov 1, 2023 · 14 min

Actress Margi Clarke looks back on the BBC’s popular 1980s comedy drama series Making Out, written by Debbie Horsfield. Acclaimed for being a celebration of working women in the no

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Steven Berkoff Remembers… Hamlet at Elsinore

Nov 5, 2023 · 13 min

In 1964, a young Steven Berkoff was cast in one of his earliest screen roles, as a junior player in Hamlet in Elsinore, a BBC co-production with Danish television. Shot in Denmark

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Sir Richard Eyre Remembers… King Lear

Nov 8, 2023 · 16 min

Award-winning director and screenwriter Sir Richard Eyre looks back on his 2018 production of King Lear, which garnered huge critical acclaim upon its release and drew together a s

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Dame Siân Phillips Remembers… Under Milk Wood

Nov 9, 2023 · 11 min

Dame Siân Phillips looks back on Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood and her own experiences with the various adaptions that have brought perhaps the world’s most celebrated ‘play for v

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Horace Ové Remembered by Indra Ové

Dec 17, 2023 · 15 min

The groundbreaking director, photographer and artist Sir Horace Ové, who died in 2023 aged 86, was best known for his unique work exploring Britain's black culture, using drama and

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Ricky Tomlinson Remembers… The Royle Family

Dec 25, 2023 · 14 min

Ricky Tomlinson sits back in his chair and takes a fond look back at the much-loved comedy series The Royle Family, sharing his memories of playing head of the family Jim Royle and