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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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Channel Episode Time
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Janet Suzman Remembers... Hedda Gabler
Janet Suzman Remembers... Hedda Gabler
Renowned actress Dame Janet Suzman reflects on her acclaimed 1972 portrayal of Ibsen’s formidable heroine Hedda Gabler.
Your Time
Sun 15 Mar · 22:00
UK
Sun 15 Mar · 22:00
Upcoming Release
Daniela Nardini Remembers... This Life
Daniela Nardini Remembers... This Life
Daniela Nardini looks back on the 1990s BBC drama series This Life, which followed the misadventures of a group of flat-sharing friends pursing careers in the law.
Your Time
Wed 18 Mar · 22:00
UK
Wed 18 Mar · 22:00
Channel
BBC Four
Upcoming Release
Episode
Janet Suzman Remembers... Hedda Gabler
Janet Suzman Remembers... Hedda Gabler
Renowned actress Dame Janet Suzman reflects on her acclaimed 1972 portrayal of Ibsen’s formidable heroine Hedda Gabler.
Time
Your Time
Sun 15 Mar · 22:00
UK
Sun 15 Mar · 22:00
Channel
BBC Four
Upcoming Release
Episode
Daniela Nardini Remembers... This Life
Daniela Nardini Remembers... This Life
Daniela Nardini looks back on the 1990s BBC drama series This Life, which followed the misadventures of a group of flat-sharing friends pursing careers in the law.
Time
Your Time
Wed 18 Mar · 22:00
UK
Wed 18 Mar · 22:00

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Episodes Graham Reid Remembers... Life After Life

Graham Reid Remembers... Life After Life

Playwright Graham Reid looks back on his 1995 TV drama Life After Life, a powerful addition to his work on the Troubles, about a murderer released into ceasefire Belfast.
Duration: 9 mins First broadcast: 11:30pm 12 Nov 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Mar 2030)
Episodes Graham Reid Remembers... The Precious Blood

Graham Reid Remembers... The Precious Blood

Writer Graham Reid looks back on his 1996 BBC drama The Precious Blood, set in a Belfast trying to secure a lasting peace and starring Amanda Burton and Kevin McNally.
Duration: 10 mins First broadcast: 10pm 12 Nov 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Mar 2030)
Episodes Matthew Bourne Remembers... Swan Lake

Matthew Bourne Remembers... Swan Lake

Acclaimed choreographer and director Sir Matthew Bourne discusses his groundbreaking reinterpretation of Tchaikovsky's classic ballet Swan Lake.
Duration: 20 mins First broadcast: 9pm 9 Nov 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Mar 2030)
Episodes Emma Thompson and Paul Murton Remember... The Blue Boy

Emma Thompson and Paul Murton Remember... The Blue Boy

Emma Thompson and Paul Murton discuss The Blue Boy, a film Paul was inspired to write after a spooky experience the pair shared during a late-night lock-in at a haunted inn as teenagers.
Duration: 19 mins First broadcast: 10pm 5 Nov 2025
Availability: Available for 11 months (until 05 Nov 2026)
Episodes Ian McNeice Remembers... Edge of Darkness

Ian McNeice Remembers... Edge of Darkness

Actor Ian McNeice looks back on the 1985 political thriller Edge of Darkness, which quickly established itself as a landmark series in British TV history.
Duration: 14 mins First broadcast: 9pm 1 Nov 2025
Availability: Available for 11 months (until 01 Nov 2026)
Episodes David Hare Remembers... The Absence of War

David Hare Remembers... The Absence of War

Screenwriter David Hare looks back on his 1995 political drama The Absence of War, a fictional account of a Labour general election campaign.
Duration: 14 mins First broadcast: 10pm 29 Oct 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Mar 2030)
Episodes Lord Mervyn King Remembers... The Age of Uncertainty

Lord Mervyn King Remembers... The Age of Uncertainty

Former governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King looks back on the BBC’s 1977 series on the history of economic thinking, The Age of Uncertainty.
Duration: 19 mins First broadcast: 10pm 19 Oct 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Mar 2030)
Episodes Professor Angie Hobbs Remembers... The Great Philosophers

Professor Angie Hobbs Remembers... The Great Philosophers

Professor Angie Hobbs gives a modern view on Bryan Magee’s highly influential series The Great Philosophers, explaining how it inspired her and many others to explore philosophy.
Duration: 14 mins First broadcast: 10:30pm 13 Oct 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Mar 2030)
Episodes William Nicholson Remembers... Sweet as You Are

William Nicholson Remembers... Sweet as You Are

Acclaimed screenwriter William Nicholson looks back on the BBC drama he still considers one of his finest achievements, 1988's As Sweet as You Are.
Duration: 17 mins First broadcast: 10pm 8 Oct 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Mar 2030)
Episodes Bhasker Patel Remembers... Brothers in Trouble

Bhasker Patel Remembers... Brothers in Trouble

Actor Bhasker Patel looks back on his experience playing Gholam in the 1995 film Brothers in Trouble.
Duration: 15 mins First broadcast: 10pm 1 Oct 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Mar 2030)
Episodes Waris Hussein Remembers... The Clothes in the Wardrobe

Waris Hussein Remembers... The Clothes in the Wardrobe

Director Waris Hussein talks about his memories of making the 1993 TV drama The Clothes in the Wardrobe, adapted from the Alice Thomas Ellis novel by Martin Sherman.
Duration: 14 mins First broadcast: 10pm 24 Sep 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Mar 2030)
Episodes Anthony Wall Remembers... Arena

Anthony Wall Remembers... Arena

Anthony Wall looks back on his time on Arena, from producer to series editor, and celebrates the films and people that made it groundbreaking, unmissable, unforgettable TV.
Duration: 15 mins First broadcast: 10pm 22 Sep 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Mar 2030)
Episodes Sarah Churchwell Remembers... The Great Gatsby

Sarah Churchwell Remembers... The Great Gatsby

Sarah Churchwell looks at the origins of The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald's evocative novel of the Roaring Twenties, and the inspiration behind its plot and characters.
Duration: 17 mins First broadcast: 9:30pm 18 Sep 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Mar 2030)
Episodes Phil Davis Remembers... The Firm

Phil Davis Remembers... The Firm

Phil Davis pays tribute to maverick director Alan Clarke as he looks back on his time acting in the 1989 made-for-television film The Firm.
Duration: 18 mins First broadcast: 10pm 17 Sep 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Mar 2030)
Episodes Stephen Poliakoff Remembers... Perfect Strangers

Stephen Poliakoff Remembers... Perfect Strangers

Stephen Poliakoff gives an insight into the making of his landmark BBC drama Perfect Strangers.
Duration: 16 mins First broadcast: 10pm 20 Aug 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Mar 2030)
Episodes Jasper Carrott Remembers...

Jasper Carrott Remembers...

Comedy hero Jasper Carrott marks hitting his 80th year with a look back over the unique career that has seen him gracing our screens for the past five decades.
Duration: 29 mins First broadcast: 9pm 19 Aug 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Mar 2030)
Episodes Stephen Poliakoff Remembers... Shooting the Past

Stephen Poliakoff Remembers... Shooting the Past

Stephen Poliakoff looks back on his 1999 TV series Shooting the Past, revealing how he was given the brief to write something 'totally different from anything seen before'.
Duration: 16 mins First broadcast: 10pm 13 Aug 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Mar 2030)
Episodes Paul Lewis Remembers... Alfred Brendel

Paul Lewis Remembers... Alfred Brendel

Paul Lewis provides a glimpse into the life and career of a performer assured of his place as one of the greatest musicians of the postwar era, classical pianist Alfred Brendel.
Duration: 13 mins First broadcast: 10 Aug 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Mar 2030)
Episodes Michael Aspel Remembers... The War Game

Michael Aspel Remembers... The War Game

TV presenter Michael Aspel looks back on one of the BBC’s most controversial programmes of the 1960s, The War Game.
Duration: 12 mins First broadcast: 10pm 30 Jul 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Mar 2030)
Episodes Helen Mirren Remembers... The Little Minister

Helen Mirren Remembers... The Little Minister

Dame Helen Mirren looks back on one of her earliest television roles in the BBC’s 1975 adaptation of JM Barrie’s The Little Minister.
Duration: 9 mins First broadcast: 10:10pm 27 Jul 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Mar 2030)

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