Station:
BBC One (GB)
Status:
Running
Start:
2024-09-02
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A series of films made up of intimate first-person testimony, mixed with archive and actuality. In My Own Words will take viewers closer than ever before to major creative figures, delivering great arts stories combined with real psychological revelation.
There is no Next Episode of In My Own Words planned.
S1E3 - 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.
Air Date: 16 Sep 2024 16:40 (CDT)
S1E4 - Jackie Kay
Air Date: 23 Sep 2024 16:40 (CDT)
S1E5 - Jilly Cooper
Best-selling novelist and journalist Jilly Cooper reflects on her life and work. Now aged 87, she recalls her childhood in Yorkshire, and her early career in journalism and publishing in the 1950s and 1960s. Jilly revisits the home in south-west London she left 42 years ago, where she lived with her late husband Leo and her children. She also discusses married life, her attitude to sex, moving to the Cotswolds, and the breakthrough success of her 1985 novel, Riders.
Air Date: 30 Sep 2024 16:40 (CDT)