In My Own Words
In My Own Words: Season 1

Air Date

September 2, 2024

Episodes

5 episodes

In My Own Words

Season 1

Overview

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

Episodes

Billy Connolly

1. Billy Connolly

September 2, 2024
45 min

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.

Alison Lapper

2. Alison Lapper

September 9, 2024
44 min

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.

Hanif Kureishi

3. Hanif Kureishi

September 16, 2024
45 min

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.

Jackie Kay

4. Jackie Kay

September 23, 2024
45 min

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.

Jilly Cooper

5. Jilly Cooper

September 30, 2024
44 min

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.

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