Poppy Goodheart
Director
In My Own Words (2024)
Series 1
Get up close to artists, writers, actors, comedians and poets.
Released Sept. 2, 2024
Episode 44 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Moonshine Features (GB), Chalk Productions, BBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions, Whisper Films
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - 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.
Sept. 2, 2024, midnight
S1E2 - 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.
Sept. 9, 2024, midnight
S1E3 - 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.
Sept. 16, 2024, midnight
S1E4 - 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.
Sept. 23, 2024, midnight
S1E5 - Jilly Cooper
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.
Sept. 30, 2024, midnight
Network: BBC One
Episode Runtime: 44 min.
Season Runtime: 442 min.
Released: Sept. 2, 2024
Last Air Date: Nov. 18, 2025, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR
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