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Season 1

  • S01E01 Billy Connolly

    • September 2, 2024
    • BBC One

    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.

  • S01E02 Alison Lapper

    • September 9, 2024
    • BBC One

    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.

  • S01E03 Hanif Kureishi

    • September 16, 2024
    • BBC One

    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.

  • S01E04 Jackie Kay

    • September 23, 2024
    • BBC One

    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.

  • S01E05 Jilly Cooper

    • September 30, 2024
    • BBC One

    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.