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September 2, 2024

Series 1

Get up close to artists, writers, actors, comedians and poets.

01. Billy Connolly

An astonishingly intimate self-portrait. With unflinching honesty and brilliant humour, Sir Billy looks back on his triumphs and failings as an entertainer, husband and father.

45min
September 2, 2024

02. Alison Lapper

Alison Lapper – an artist, a muse, a mother – explores her life through art and archive in this visually rich and emotionally intimate documentary as she emerges from the most difficult period of her life after the loss of her son Parys.

44min
September 9, 2024

03. Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi explores his life and career using personal archive footage and his films to reveal a portrait of a man who is as honest, challenging and witty as his work.

45min
September 16, 2024

04. Jackie Kay

One of Britian’s most loved poets, Jackie Kay, on how her powerful work draws from her life’s journey, considering race, gender and identity with tenderness and humour.

45min
September 23, 2024

05. Jilly Cooper

Best-selling novelist and journalist Dame Jilly Cooper candidly reflects on her life and work, and how it has held up a mirror to our sex lives, class obsessions and relationships.

44min
September 30, 2024