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    Remembers… Season 4 Episode 1 - Ruth Jones Remembers… Hattie
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    #1 - Ruth Jones Remembers… Hattie

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    A self-confessed comedy hero to Ruth Jones, Hattie Jacques was a core part of postwar British comedy history. Roles in the Carry On films and TV sitcoms such as Sykes and Hancock cemented her place in the nation’s heart. Yet her off-screen life was just as extraordinary – married to Dad’s Army star John Le Mesurier, she began an unconventional affair with her driver, a scandal that could have ended her career. Ruth looks back at Hattie, a one-off drama that captures the astonishing story. She discusses the origins of the project and the prep work she did for playing such an icon. She talks of the attention paid to period detail, the loving recreation of classic screen comedies, her joy in the costumes and the astonishing cast. And she tells us how Hattie Jacques was so much more than the larger-than-life persona we saw in the movies, a comic genius and role model who broke the mould.

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  2. Remembers… Season 4 Episode 2 - Vivien Heilbron Remembers… Cloud Howe
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    #2 - Vivien Heilbron Remembers… Cloud Howe

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    Actress Vivien Heilbron looks back on the 1982 drama series Cloud Howe, the second part of the BBC’s acclaimed adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic trilogy A Scots Quair. Vivien’s character Chris is now moving on from the death of her first husband, newly married to a church minister and trying to manage a new life in a small town where gossip and rumour runs rife.

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  3. Remembers… Season 4 Episode 3 - Vivien Heilbron Remembers… Grey Granite
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    #3 - Vivien Heilbron Remembers… Grey Granite

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    First broadcast in 1983, Grey Granite was the third and final part of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A Scots Quair trilogy that the BBC adapted for television. Leading actress Vivien Heilbron looks back on her time making the series and the challenges she faced when taking on the key role of Chris Guthrie one last time, over ten years since she was first cast in the part in Sunset Song. Grey Granite finds Chris struggling with the radical politics of her son Ewan and the amorous attentions of a friend from the past. Vivien outlines the challenges of bringing Gibbon’s story to the screen once again and shares an overview of her memories from across the entire trilogy, working with some of Scotland’s finest acting talent.

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  4. Remembers… Season 4 Episode 4 - David Herman Remembers… Face to Face
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    #4 - David Herman Remembers… Face to Face

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    From Tony Hancock to Martin Luther King, Yoko Ono to Salman Rushdie, Face to Face interrogated some of the key figures in 20th-century culture. From its start in 1959, to its return 30 years later, it pushed contributors into revealing places and gave insights into their characters. It reduced What’s My Line star Gilbert Harding to tears, and Evelyn Waugh into a sweating heap. It also saw Paul Eddington discussing the cancer that eventually killed him, and Edith Sitwell describing her connection to Dylan Thomas. David Herman, who produced Face to Face on its TV return in 1989, takes us through his memories, including an emotional screening of Spielberg’s Schindler’s List with Jeremy Isaacs and meeting Yoko Ono at the Dakota hotel. David also recalls John Freeman’s groundbreaking original and explains why it was right to resurrect the show. He brings to life a programme that has firmly established itself in British TV history.

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  5. Remembers… Season 4 Episode 5 - Adrian Lester Remembers… Company
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    #5 - Adrian Lester Remembers… Company

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    Actor Adrian Lester looks back on the celebrated 1996 Donmar Warehouse revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical Company.

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  6. Remembers… Season 4 Episode 6 - Tony Marchant Remembers… Take Me Home
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    #6 - Tony Marchant Remembers… Take Me Home

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    Writer Tony Marchant looks back on his 1989 drama Take Me Home, a troubled love story set amidst a political backdrop of changing attitudes, technological advances and residential development. The drama was Tony’s first serial for television, and he remembers its journey from page to screen, including the casting of well-known faces Keith Barron, Reece Dinsdale, Maggie O’Neill and Annette Crosbie. Tony reflects on how the drama has not lost its relevance. The story of two lost souls, both at odds with the fast-paced development of the modern world, coming together is just as meaningful today as it ever was.

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  7. Remembers… Season 4 Episode 7 - David Olusoga Remembers… Artists and Models
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    #7 - David Olusoga Remembers… Artists and Models

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    Historian David Olusoga looks back on the 1986 BBC drama documentary Artists and Models, which had a profound influence on him as a young man. David remembers how the series ignited in him a love of art and history that would go on to determine his own career and lifelong passions. The series was influential in its day for its use of long, thoughtful shots of classical artwork, which David says has had a lasting impact on the television series he makes today.

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  8. Remembers… Season 4 Episode 8 - Willard White Remembers… Porgy and Bess
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    #8 - Willard White Remembers… Porgy and Bess

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    The great opera singer Sir Willard White recalls his experiences on the first televised production of Porgy and Bess, based itself on Trevor Nunn’s acclaimed 1986 Glyndebourne staging of George Gershwin’s classic opera, and conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. Willard recalls the unusual challenges that arose during the project, including lip-syncing and performing in a TV studio instead of a stage, as well as what Porgy and Bess has meant to him throughout his esteemed career.

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  9. Remembers… Season 4 Episode 9 - Jimmy McGovern Remembers… The Lakes
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    #9 - Jimmy McGovern Remembers… The Lakes

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    Writer Jimmy McGovern looks back on The Lakes, his 1997 drama that showed viewers one of Britain’s most-loved beauty spots in a whole new light, riddled with crime, drugs, sex and adultery. Jimmy talks about the inspiration behind the series, working with cast members like John Simm, and how he feels looking back on the show today.

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  10. Remembers… Season 4 Episode 10 - Jimmy McGovern Remembers… Priest
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    #10 - Jimmy McGovern Remembers… Priest

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    Screenwriter Jimmy McGovern looks back on his acclaimed, but controversial, 1995 drama Priest, explaining how an initial desire to explore the notion of celibacy for Catholic priests became a tale tackling homosexuality. He discusses the writing of what were then eye-opening sex scenes and talks about the film’s far darker storyline, exploring child sexual abuse and the sanctity of confession. On its release, Priest would be boycotted by some but embraced by many others, from surprising quarters, and it remains to this day one of the screenplays that Jimmy is most proud of.

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  11. Remembers… Season 4 Episode 11 - Gary Wilmot Remembers… Showstoppers
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    #11 - Gary Wilmot Remembers… Showstoppers

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    Gary Wilmot looks back fondly on his time presenting Showstoppers, a 1995 series jam-packed with well-known hits from musical theatre. The series started life as a one-off special and was then extended to include a further six episodes after huge audience demand. Gary reminisces on what made the show so popular, working with the incredible BBC Concert Orchestra and learning more show tunes than he thought possible! Gary also shares his memories of the special guests on the show, from Luther Vandross and Sir Cliff Richard to stage greats Anthony Newley, Tom Conti and Elaine Paige and television favourites Bob Monkhouse and Dennis Waterman.

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  12. Remembers… Season 4 Episode 12 - Jimmy McGovern Remembers… Common
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    #12 - Jimmy McGovern Remembers… Common

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    Screenwriter Jimmy McGovern remembers his 2014 drama Common, which explores the concept and consequences of the law of joint association through the story of a fictional murder involving a group of Liverpool teenagers. Jimmy explains how he came to be persuaded to write Common, his approach and what he was trying to achieve, and whether he considers the endeavour to be a success.

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  13. Remembers… Season 4 Episode 13 - Elaine Paige Remembers… A Night on the Town
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    #13 - Elaine Paige Remembers… A Night on the Town

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    Elaine Paige looks back on A Night on the Town – a musical extravaganza from the early 1980s, filmed with a mostly American cast of singers and dancers, such as Ann Reinking, Hinton Battle, Frank Gorshin and the wonderful Eartha Kitt. Elaine recalls being drawn to the production, as it featured so many songs from writers she most admires – Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and Noel Coward. She had to play several parts, as each musical number had its own vignette, which allowed her to play a very loud and broad hat check girl from the 1930s, a dame from the Deep South and a Russian countess – much to the delight of fellow actor Lewis Collins, with whom she had great fun on set.

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  14. Remembers… Season 4 Episode 14 - Andrew Roberts Remembers… AJP Taylor's The War Lords
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    #14 - Andrew Roberts Remembers… AJP Taylor's The War Lords

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    AJP Taylor was rightly renowned as one of Britain’s finest historians, combining his academic work at Oxford with a successful career as author and broadcaster. Taylor established a reputation as one of the first television historians, noted for his ‘lecture’ style, programmes he made with no notes, covering subjects such as the Russian Revolution, the First World War and warlords. Historian Andrew Roberts looks back on Taylor's 1976 series The War Lords, in which he examines the lives and motives of the key leaders in the Second World War. Find out why Mussolini’s rise to power came despite an obvious laziness; why Churchill believed the Battle of Britain was as much a key moment in history as the Battle of Trafalgar; and that coincidentally, Mussolini, Churchill and Stalin were all published authors - Stalin’s book being particularly boring!

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  15. Remembers… Season 4 Episode 15 - Simon Schama Remembers… The Power of Art
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    #15 - Simon Schama Remembers… The Power of Art

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    Sir Simon Schama looks back on his 2006 series The Power of Art, which examined the works of eight artists and explored the question 'How powerful is art, can it change your life?'. It was a forensic study not of an artist’s life but of a moment in that life. A piece of work that was an unexpected triumph or a catastrophe. A look at the world in which that work was created and going back in time to explore what lead the artist to that moment. We find out why the series settled on a ‘no men with beards’ policy, every part played by established actors, including Andy Serkis and Allan Corduner. We see Simon’s joy in remembering his young self, discovering the power of Mark Rothko. We hear about the freedom they had to film some of the world’s finest artworks, given free rein in the Palazzo Borghese for Bernini for example. As Simon Schama explains, 'art has dreadful manners, it’s there to make us see the world in a different way.'

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  16. Remembers… Season 4 Episode 16 - Laurence Rees Remembers… The Nazis: A Warning from History
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    #16 - Laurence Rees Remembers… The Nazis: A Warning from History

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    Laurence Rees' landmark 1997 series explored the reasons why Germany fell in thrall to the Nazis. Combining astonishing archive, storytelling and interviews with figures at the heart of Hitler’s rise to power, it tells us of the Nazi mentality and the reasons behind their beliefs. Chillingly, it looks at those who still think the Nazis were right. Rees is an author and broadcaster, perfectly placed to look back at the series he wrote and produced. He tells us of the origins of the series - how the fall of the Berlin Wall opened possibilities for interviews with people who previously had been unreachable. He recalls the powerful moments when some of those closely associated with the horrors were challenged. And he explains how the regime rose out of chaos, both in Germany and within the Nazis themselves. Join Laurence as he takes us behind the scenes of this award-winning series, that has resonance to this day.

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  17. Remembers… Season 4 Episode 17 - Brian Cox Remembers… Bob Servant
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    #17 - Brian Cox Remembers… Bob Servant

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    Acting giant Brian Cox has enjoyed a stellar career and is known for the intensity of characters like Hannibal Lecter and Succession’s Logan Roy - but here we join him taking a fond look back at a character who, perhaps surprisingly, occupies a very special place in his heart – the would-be MP for Broughty Ferry, Bob Servant. Brian relates how Dundee and the east coast of Scotland, with its distinct brand of humour, was always part of Bob’s appeal and how he partly based his performance on his own brother. He also reveals how, despite the wide acclaim he’s received over the years for his unforgettable dramatic roles, he’s always considered himself to be more of a comic performer, for whom Bob Servant and his eccentric ways ended up being a perfect fit.

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  18. Remembers… Season 4 Episode 18 - Alison Steadman Remembers… Girl
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    #18 - Alison Steadman Remembers… Girl

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    Alison Steadman Remembers... Girl National treasure Alison Steadman tells the story of one of the most groundbreaking and yet also most overlooked moments in British television. Despite the popular perception that Channel 4’s Brookside broadcast TV’s first lesbian kiss in 1994, in reality it was Alison and Myra Frances who first broke the taboo 20 years earlier, in the 1974 drama Girl. Once thought lost forever, due to the fact that not every programme was archived back in those times, the drama later resurfaced, thanks to a random video recording – giving Alison the opportunity to share her memories of how she approached the moment and the reaction it received.

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  19. Remembers… Season 4 Episode 19 - Brian Cox Remembers… The Lost Language of Cranes
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    #19 - Brian Cox Remembers… The Lost Language of Cranes

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    Actor Brian Cox looks back on the filming of the 1991 movie The Lost Language of Cranes, about a man struggling to come to terms with his sexuality and family secrets.

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  20. Remembers… Season 4 Episode 20 - Romola Garai Remembers… Emma
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    #20 - Romola Garai Remembers… Emma

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    Romola Garai shares her experiences of filming the much-loved 2009 series Emma, recalling how she drew on the text to bring Austen’s complicated heroine to life.

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  21. Remembers… Season 4 Episode 21 - Katharine Schlesinger Remembers… Northanger Abbey
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    #21 - Katharine Schlesinger Remembers… Northanger Abbey

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    Katharine Schlesinger looks back on the filming of the 1987 adaptation of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey.

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  22. Remembers… Season 4 Episode 22 - Amanda Root and Sophie Thompson Remember… Persuasion
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    #22 - Amanda Root and Sophie Thompson Remember… Persuasion

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    Actors Amanda Root and Sophie Thompson look back on their roles in the BBC’s 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion, a story of missed opportunities and lost love.

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  23. Remembers… Season 4 Episode 23 - Frank McGuinness & Julie Nicholson Remember… A Song for Jenny
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    #23 - Frank McGuinness & Julie Nicholson Remember… A Song for Jenny

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    Frank McGuinness and Julie Nicholson look back on the 2015 drama that explored the impact of the 7/7 bombing at Edgware Road tube station.

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  24. Remembers… Season 4 Episode 24 - George Gallaccio Remembers… Miss Marple
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    #24 - George Gallaccio Remembers… Miss Marple

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    Producer George Gallaccio explains how Agatha Christie’s tales of death and deception were brought to life for the small screen and describes the pleasures of working with actress Joan Hickson.

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  25. Remembers… Season 4 Episode 25 - Debbie Horsfield Remembers… Poldark
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    #25 - Debbie Horsfield Remembers… Poldark

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    Screenwriter Debbie Horsfield shares the story of how her TV adaptation of Winston Graham's novels came about and describes the challenges of bringing it up to date for a modern audience.

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Ruth Jones Remembers… Hattie" is the best rated episode of "Remembers…" season 4. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/1/2025. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Vivien Heilbron Remembers… Cloud Howe".