In My Own Words - Season 1

In My Own Words - Season 1

Season 1

BBC Arts has announced the subjects of major new strand In My Own Words – ranging from comedian, actor, writer and musician Billy Connolly and author Jilly Cooper, to poet and novelist Jackie Kay; playwright, screenwriter and author Hanif Kureishi and artist Alison Lapper. Together, they will take BBC audiences closer than they've ever been into the life and work of some of the UK's leading cultural figures.

Network
Episodes6
DatesSep 2, 2024 - Sep 30, 2024

Episodes

Billy Connolly
Season 1Episode 145 min

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.

Sep 2, 2024
Alison Lapper
Season 1Episode 245 min

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.

Sep 9, 2024
Hanif Kureishi
Season 1Episode 345 min

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.

Sep 16, 2024
Jackie Kay
Season 1Episode 445 min

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.
Sep 23, 2024
Jilly Cooper
Season 1Episode 545 min

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.

Sep 30, 2024

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