Remembers… — Season 1, Episode 3: Colin Baker Remembers… The Roads to Freedom

Episode synopsis

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.

About Remembers…

What are the secrets of our favourite TV shows? Famous names from both sides of the camera reflect on making some of the most popular and influential programmes of all time.

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• E2Bernard Hill Remembers... Boys from the Blackstuff
• E4Hanif Kureishi Remembers… The Buddha of Suburbia
• E5Moira Armstrong and Vivien Heilbron Remember… Sunset Song
• E6Christopher Eccleston Remembers… Our Friends in the North
• E7Kenneth Branagh Remembers… Billy Plays
• E8David Harewood Remembers… A Man from the Sun
• E9Siân Phillips Remembers… How Green Was My Valley
• E10Michael Dobbs Remembers… House of Cards
• E11Alison Steadman Remembers… The Singing Detective
• E12Joe McFadden Remembers… The Crow Road
• E13Peter Kosminsky Remembers… Wolf Hall