Remembers…
Remembers…
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Remembers…

2022
5 seasons
171 episodes
DocumentaryTalk

What are the secrets of our favourite TV shows? Famous names from both sides of the camera reflect on making some of the most popular and influential programmes of all time.

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  • Jeanette Winterson Remembers... Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

    1.Jeanette Winterson Remembers... Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

    29-06-2022

    Jeanette Winterson looks back on the iconic drama series Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1989).

  • Bernard Hill Remembers... Boys from the Blackstuff

    2.Bernard Hill Remembers... Boys from the Blackstuff

    06-07-2022

    Bernard Hill looks back on the iconic drama series Boys from the Blackstuff (1982).

  • Colin Baker Remembers… The Roads to Freedom

    3.Colin Baker Remembers… The Roads to Freedom

    29-07-202211m

    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

    4.Hanif Kureishi Remembers… The Buddha of Suburbia

    17-08-202210m

    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

    5.Moira Armstrong and Vivien Heilbron Remember… Sunset Song

    31-08-202211m

    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

    6.Christopher Eccleston Remembers… Our Friends in the North

    14-09-202212m

    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

    7.Kenneth Branagh Remembers… Billy Plays

    05-10-202212m

    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

    8.David Harewood Remembers… A Man from the Sun

    19-10-202212m

    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

    9.Siân Phillips Remembers… How Green Was My Valley

    02-11-202210m

    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

    10.Michael Dobbs Remembers… House of Cards

    16-11-202211m

    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

    11.Alison Steadman Remembers… The Singing Detective

    30-11-202212m

    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

    12.Joe McFadden Remembers… The Crow Road

    14-12-202211m

    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

    13.Peter Kosminsky Remembers… Wolf Hall

    19-12-202215m

    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

    14.Richard Wilson Remembers… Tutti Frutti

    26-12-202211m

    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...

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