In My Own Words

📊 Series Specifications

Network BBC One
Episode Runtime ~45 min
Total Seasons 2
Total Episodes 10
Original Language EN

In My Own Words (2024)

⭐ Not Rated Yet 🎬 2 Seasons 📼 10 Episodes 🏷️ Documentary 📡 Returning Series
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Series Status:

Currently airing weekly on international broadcast networks.

Returning Series

Synopsis

Get up close to artists, writers, actors, comedians and poets – and discover both what fires their imaginations and the forces that have shaped their extraordinary lives.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 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.

E2 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.

E3 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.

E4 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.

E5 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.

Episodes for this season are available via edge tracking. View Episode 1 →