Episode list

Jeanette Winterson looks back on the iconic drama series Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1989).

Bernard Hill looks back on the iconic drama series Boys from the Blackstuff (1982).

Colin Baker looks back on one of his earliest TV roles in the taboo-busting drama series The Roads to Freedom (1970).

Hanif Kureishi looks back on the iconic drama series The Buddha of Suburbia (1993).

Vivien Heilbron and Moira Armstrong looks back on the BBC Scotland drama series Sunset Song (1971).

Christopher Eccleston looks back on the iconic drama series Our Friends in the North (1996).

Kenneth Branagh looks back on his breakthrough role in Graham Reid's trilogy of plays set in Belfast.

David Harewood shares his impressions of the game-changing drama A Man from the Sun (1956), which explored the challenges and racism encountered by the Windrush generation.

Siân Phillips looks back on the iconic drama series How Green Was My Valley (1975).

Michael Dobbs looks back on the iconic drama series Château de cartes (1990).

Alison Steadman looks back on the iconic drama series The Singing Detective (1986).

Joe McFadden looks back on the drama series The Crow Road (1996).

Peter Kosminsky looks back on the drama series Wolf Hall (2015).

Richard Wilson looks back on the drama series Tutti Frutti (1987).

Michael Jayston looks back on the acclaimed drama series La taupe (1979).

Glenda Jackson looks back on Elizabeth R (1971).

Duncan Preston looks back on Pat and Margaret (1994).

Writer Stephen Poliakoff looks back on his drama She's Been Away (1989).

Gyles Brandreth remembers the comedy duo Hinge and Bracket and his involvement with their sitcom, Dear Ladies (1983).

Alan Bennett looks back on his drama An Englishman Abroad (1983).

Zoë Wanamaker looks back on the 1982 BBC adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's first play, Baal (1982), in which she appeared with David Bowie.

Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice look back on their time working on the hit sitcom Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1973).

William Boyd looks back on his long friendship with fellow writer Martin Amis, and the drama Money (2010) that was adapted from his novel.

Derek Jacobi looks back on the landmark drama series Moi Claude empereur (1976).

Michael Cockerell looks back on his encounter with Edward Heath and the filming of A Very Singular Man: A Film Portrait of Edward Heath (1998).

Amanda Burton looks back on the early days of Affaires non classées (1996).

Michael Cockerell looks back on his encounter with Barbara Castle and the filming of The Red Queen: A Portrait of Barbara Castle (1995).

Jed Mercurio looks back on his medical drama series Cardiac Arrest (1994).

Michael Cockerell looks back on his encounter with Roy Jenkins and the filming of A Very Social Democrat: A Portrait of Roy Jenkins (1996).

David Tennant looks back on his role as Hamlet in the award-winning production Hamlet (2009) for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Janet Suzman looks back on her role as Joan of Arc in the BBC adaptation of the landmark Royal Shakespeare Company production The Wars of the Roses (1965).

Gregory Doran looks back on Shakespeare Live! From the RSC (2016), his live BBC extravaganza marking 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare.

Simon Russell Beale looks back on his role as Falstaff in the BBC's 2012 adaptation of Shakespeare's history plays, The Hollow Crown (2012).

Russell T. Davies looks back on his adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016).

Actors Damian Lewis and Matthew Macfadyen and director Peter Kosminsky reunite to look back on the drama Warriors - L'impossible mission (1999).

Hugh Quarshie looks back on his interpretation of Othello in RSC Live: Othello (2015).

Helen Mirren looks back on one of her earliest television roles, playing Rosalind in As You Like It (1978).

Margi Clarke looks back on the comedy drama series Making Out (1989).

Steven Berkoff looks back on Hamlet at Elsinore (1964), a Danish co-production of Hamlet filmed in Elsinore where the play is set.

Richard Eyre looks back on his production of King Lear (2018).

Siân Phillips looks back on Under Milk Wood (2014) and her own experiences with other adaptations of the play.

Marin Alsop looks back on her experiences with the legendary composer Leonard Bernstein.

Indra Ové remembers the life and career of her father, Horace Ové, and his acclaimed film A Hole in Babylon (1979).

Ricky Tomlinson looks back on the much-loved sitcom The Royle Family (1998) and his memories of working on the series.

Darcey Bussell introduces a series from the BBC's archives, The Magic of Dance (1979).

Penelope Keith looks back on the much-loved sitcom To the Manor Born (1979) and her memories of working on the series.

Andrew Davies looks back on Orgueil et préjugés (1995) and talks about how he adapted the story from Jane Austen's classic novel.

Alan Yentob looks back on his encounters with Orson Welles and the making of the two-part documentary "The Orson Wells Story" for Arena (1975).

Waris Hussein shares his memories of directing A Passage to India (1965).

Alan Yentob looks back on his relationship with Mel Brooks.