In My Own Words — Season 1
Get up close to artists, writers, actors, comedians and poets.
About this season
Get up close to artists, writers, actors, comedians and poets.
Episodes (5)
1. Billy Connolly
Aired 2 September 2024 • 45 min
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.
2. Alison Lapper
Aired 9 September 2024 • 44 min
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.
3. Hanif Kureishi
Aired 16 September 2024 • 45 min
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.
4. Jackie Kay
Aired 23 September 2024 • 45 min
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.
5. Jilly Cooper
Aired 30 September 2024 • 44 min
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.