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    Remembers… Season 1 Episode 1 - Jeanette Winterson Remembers... Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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    #1 - Jeanette Winterson Remembers... Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

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    Jeanette Winterson looks back on the iconic drama series Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1989).

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  2. Remembers… Season 1 Episode 2 - Bernard Hill Remembers... Boys from the Blackstuff
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    #2 - Bernard Hill Remembers... Boys from the Blackstuff

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    Bernard Hill looks back on the iconic drama series Boys from the Blackstuff (1982).

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  3. Remembers… Season 1 Episode 3 - Colin Baker Remembers… The Roads to Freedom
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    #3 - Colin Baker Remembers… The Roads to Freedom

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    Colin Baker looks back on one of his earliest TV roles and discusses the significance of acclaimed 13-part drama series 'The Roads to Freedom', which is being shown on television for the first time since 1977 as part of the BBC’s centenary celebrations. Based on the novels by Jean-Paul Sartre and set in Nazi-occupied France, it has been described as an amazing, potent and subversive viewing experience, that saw taboos broken with every weekly broadcast. That assessment can now be tested by first-time viewers, as well those who saw it at the time and who have long campaigned for the BBC to screen it again.

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  4. Remembers… Season 1 Episode 4 - Hanif Kureishi Remembers… The Buddha of Suburbia
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    #4 - Hanif Kureishi Remembers… The Buddha of Suburbia

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    Writer Hanif Kureishi looks back on how his semi-autobiographical novel The Buddha of Suburbia became one of the defining BBC dramas of the 1990s. He discusses the ways in which it set new standards in representing multicultural Britain, the importance that humour plays in pushing forward serious ideas, and what it was like working with his musical hero, after David Bowie unexpectedly suggested that he write the soundtrack.

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  5. Remembers… Season 1 Episode 5 - Moira Armstrong and Vivien Heilbron Remember… Sunset Song
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    #5 - Moira Armstrong and Vivien Heilbron Remember… Sunset Song

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    Actor Vivien Heilbron and director Moira Armstrong look back on the 1971 BBC Scotland drama Sunset Song, based on Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic novel. Together, the friends discuss how their collaboration worked and the pressures of filming nude scenes, arguing over accents and working with animals. The pair also consider why Sunset Song was such a significant production and the legacy it has left behind.

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  6. Remembers… Season 1 Episode 6 - Christopher Eccleston Remembers… Our Friends in the North
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    #6 - Christopher Eccleston Remembers… Our Friends in the North

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    To mark the rescreening of Our Friends in the North, as part of the BBC’s centenary celebrations, Christopher Eccleston looks back on Peter Flannery’s acclaimed 1996 drama. Following the lives of four friends from Newcastle over a period of three decades, the series struck a chord with the nation’s viewers and turned its young cast into household names. In this introduction to the series, Eccleston shares behind-the-scenes stories of how the drama was made and assesses the impact it had on audiences, himself and his fellow cast members.

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  7. Remembers… Season 1 Episode 7 - Kenneth Branagh Remembers… Billy Plays
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    #7 - Kenneth Branagh Remembers… Billy Plays

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    Kenneth Branagh looks back on his experiences working on the first major production of his career: Graham Reid’s Billy Plays trilogy. The three Play for Today dramas won great praise for the way they captured ordinary working class lives in Belfast, set against the backdrop of The Troubles. The acclaim Branagh received for his portrayal of big-hearted, hot-headed Billy got his career off to a perfect start. He gives his perspective on why the drama was so well-received, recalls working with his fellow cast, and casts an experienced, critical eye over his own youthful performance.

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  8. Remembers… Season 1 Episode 8 - David Harewood Remembers… A Man from the Sun
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    #8 - David Harewood Remembers… A Man from the Sun

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    Actor David Harewood shares his impressions of John Elliot’s game-changing 1956 BBC drama, which explored the challenges and racism encountered by Windrush immigrants from the West Indies, who had come to Britain after being promised work and a secure future. David discusses the impact A Man From the Sun still holds today, the performances of cast members Errol John, Cy Grant and Earl Cameron, and the context and attitudes of a decade that saw the BBC bring viewers issue-led dramas like this while at the same time creating series such as The Black and White Minstrels.

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  9. Remembers… Season 1 Episode 9 - Siân Phillips Remembers… How Green Was My Valley
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    #9 - Siân Phillips Remembers… How Green Was My Valley

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    Award-winning actress Siân Phillips takes a look back at the BBC’s landmark 1975 adaptation of Richard Llewellyn’s classic novel How Green Was My Valley. Siân’s role as Beth, the matriarch and heart of the Morgan family, was crucial to this portrayal of a traditional Welsh mining community during a time of huge upheaval. She recalls how the production came together and what it was like working with her fellow cast, including Welsh icon Stanley Baker in what would be one of his final roles. As well as some of her favourite personal memories, she also considers the drama’s legacy and explores how it has stood the test of time.

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  10. Remembers… Season 1 Episode 10 - Michael Dobbs Remembers… House of Cards
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    #10 - Michael Dobbs Remembers… House of Cards

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    Author, politician and member of the House of Lords Michael Dobbs looks back on the TV drama that had 90s Britain hooked on political intrigue and infighting. Based on his best-selling novel, the BBC adaptation of House of Cards introduced television viewers to Francis Urquhart, the chief whip pulling the strings as a Conservative government experiences a leadership crisis that sees reputations and lives destroyed. Lord Dobbs considers the seductive appeal of Urquhart and how Ian Richardson’s portrayal of the character helped him instantly become one of the great TV villains. He also recalls how the very week that the BBC first broadcast House of Cards coincided with a real-life political meltdown as Margaret Thatcher was forced from office, and the fact that the latest screening comes after some of the biggest political upsets for decades. Coincidence? To quote Urquhart himself: ‘You might think that... I couldn’t possibly comment.’

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  11. Remembers… Season 1 Episode 11 - Alison Steadman Remembers… The Singing Detective
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    #11 - Alison Steadman Remembers… The Singing Detective

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    Alison Steadman looks back at Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective, hailed as one of the most important and influential TV dramas ever made, and once described by Stephen King as ‘television’s Citizen Kane’. From memories of happy times working with leading man Michael Gambon, and the pride of being involved in a piece that got the whole nation talking, to the stresses of being caught up in the controversy surrounding her character’s notorious outdoor sex scene, Alison brings her unique perspective to a series she ranks amongst her favourites.

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  12. Remembers… Season 1 Episode 12 - Joe McFadden Remembers… The Crow Road
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    #12 - Joe McFadden Remembers… The Crow Road

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    Considered one of the finest TV adaptations of a novel ever made for television, BBC Scotland’s The Crow Road was first broadcast in 1996, four years after the publication of Iain Banks’s acclaimed bestseller. Here, actor Joe McFadden, who played the central role of Prentice McHoan, looks back on the series that had 90s audiences hooked, and discusses his work alongside an impressive cast that included Bill Paterson, Dougray Scott and Peter Capaldi as Prentice’s mysterious missing Uncle Rory.

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  13. Remembers… Season 1 Episode 13 - Peter Kosminsky Remembers… Wolf Hall
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    #13 - Peter Kosminsky Remembers… Wolf Hall

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    Wolf Hall, one of the most critically acclaimed television dramas of recent years, was based on the first two of the late Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell novels and brought together a stellar cast that included Mark Rylance as Cromwell, Claire Foy as Anne Boleyn and Damien Lewis as King Henry VIII. Director Peter Kosminsky looks back on the making of the drama, with anecdotes and insights into his working with the cast, the joy of collaborating with Mantel herself, and his determination to honour her legacy with the adaptation of the final chapter in Cromwell’s story, The Mirror and the Light.

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  14. Remembers… Season 1 Episode 14 - Richard Wilson Remembers… Tutti Frutti
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    #14 - Richard Wilson Remembers… Tutti Frutti

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    It’s a trip down rock 'n' roll’s memory lane for Richard Wilson as he recalls his role as manager of The Majestics in John Byrne’s 1987 acclaimed TV drama series Tutti Frutti. When it first hit our television screens, the series was instantly hailed as a modern classic that thrust many of its cast into the mainstream and transformed the career of leading man – and Majestics frontman – the late, great Robbie Coltrane. Here, Richard looks back on his own experience on the series, recalls what it was like being part of the Tutti Frutti success story, and remembers of course what it was like working alongside Robbie on a programme they both loved.

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  15. Remembers… Season 2 Episode 1 - Michael Jayston Remembers... Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
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    #15 - Michael Jayston Remembers... Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

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    Michael Jayston looks back on the acclaimed drama series Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979).

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  16. Remembers… Season 2 Episode 2 - Glenda Jackson Remembers... Elizabeth R
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    #16 - Glenda Jackson Remembers... Elizabeth R

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    Double Oscar winner Glenda Jackson remembers the role that brought her back to television after the huge success she had found on the big screen.

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  17. Remembers… Season 2 Episode 3 - Duncan Preston Remembers... Pat and Margaret
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    #17 - Duncan Preston Remembers... Pat and Margaret

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    Actor Duncan Preston introduces Victoria Wood's comedy drama about two ill-matched sisters.

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  18. Remembers… Season 2 Episode 4 - Stephen Poliakoff Remembers… She's Been Away
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    #18 - Stephen Poliakoff Remembers… She's Been Away

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    Stephen Poliakoff introduces his drama about an unexpected pact between two women.

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  19. Remembers… Season 2 Episode 5 - Gyles Brandreth Remembers… Hinge and Bracket
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    #19 - Gyles Brandreth Remembers… Hinge and Bracket

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    Gyles Brandreth remembers the comedy and musical duo Hinge and Bracket.

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  20. Remembers… Season 2 Episode 6 - Alan Bennett Remembers… An Englishman Abroad
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    #20 - Alan Bennett Remembers… An Englishman Abroad

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    Alan Bennett remembers his 1983 television drama, based on the true story of a chance meeting in Moscow between actress Coral Browne and British defector Guy Burgess.

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  21. Remembers… Season 2 Episode 7 - Zoë Wanamaker Remembers… Bowie and Baal
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    #21 - Zoë Wanamaker Remembers… Bowie and Baal

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    Zoë Wanamaker remembers the 1982 BBC adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s first play, Baal, in which she appeared with David Bowie.

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  22. Remembers… Season 2 Episode 8 - Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice Remember… Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
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    #22 - Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice Remember… Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

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    It’s now 50 years since we first met and fell for accident-prone Frank Spencer and his long-suffering wife Betty in the very first episode of Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em. In all that time, actors Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice have never sat down together to discuss the programme - until now. Here, we find them reunited and looking back on one of Britain’s most-loved sitcoms, and the parts they both played in its creation. They reveal how they came to be cast, what it was like to film the series, celebrated stunts and all, the impact the show’s phenomenal success had on their lives and careers, and the point at which they knew it was time to stop. It’s a conversation glowing with Michael and Michele’s affection for the series and for each other, and fans should find it as enjoyable as its stars clearly have done.

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  23. Remembers… Season 2 Episode 9 - Martin Amis, Money and Memories with William Boyd
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    #23 - Martin Amis, Money and Memories with William Boyd

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    Novelist William Boyd looks back on his long friendship with fellow writer Martin Amis, who died in May 2023 at the age of 73. Boyd’s focus is on what many consider to be Martin’s most successful work, 1984’s Money, which introduced readers to the hedonistic would-be film-maker John Self. The character would be portrayed by actor Nick Frost in the BBC’s dramatisation of the novel in 2010, and here Boyd also discusses the challenges of screen adaptation generally, and why bringing Amis’s work to the small screen was always going to be particularly challenging.

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  24. Remembers… Season 2 Episode 10 - Sir Derek Jacobi Remembers… I, Claudius
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    #24 - Sir Derek Jacobi Remembers… I, Claudius

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    Sir Derek Jacobi remembers the landmark 1976 TV series I, Claudius.

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  25. Remembers… Season 2 Episode 11 - Edward Heath Remembered by Michael Cockerell
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    #25 - Edward Heath Remembered by Michael Cockerell

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    Award-winning documentary maker Michael Cockerell is a master of the political profile, with a reputation for uncovering the human side of the men and women of Westminster and for really getting under the skin of the great, the good and the not-so-good who have governed postwar Britain. Here, Michael looks back on one of the most challenging encounters of his long career and recounts what it was like dealing with former Conservative prime minister Edward Heath, the man who took us into the European Union but wanted us all to keep very much out of his private life.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Jeanette Winterson Remembers... Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" is the best rated episode of "Remembers…". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 6/29/2022. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Bernard Hill Remembers... Boys from the Blackstuff".