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Rating:3.0 of 5Total number of episodes:24Last broadcast:15/11/2015 at 20:00
2015
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November 15, 2015

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Award-winning writer and director Sir David Hare talks frankly to Mark Lawson following the publication of his much-anticipated memoir The Blue Touch Paper. Hare, one of Britain's foremost political playwrights, rose to fame in the 1970s with Plenty, his play about post-war disillusion. He then went on to write a string of successes for the National Theatre, most notably his 1990s state-of-the-nation trilogy. Hare has also written screenplays including The Hours and The Reader and recently wrot...
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Jonathan Pryce

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From princes to professors and cardinals to comedians, star of stage and screen Jonathan Pryce is one of Britain's most versatile actors. Here he talks to Mark Lawson about his life and extensive career.
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Alexander McCall Smith

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Mark Lawson talks to the internationally successful author Alexander McCall Smith, whose No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series of books, set in Botswana and centring on the investigations of the redoubtable Precious Ramotswe, have sold in their millions around the world.
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Kazuo Ishiguro

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Mark Lawson talks to the Booker Prize-winning writer Kazuo Ishiguro about his life and career.
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Celia Imrie

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From Calendar Girls to Cranford, Celia Imrie has been a familiar face on both TV and film for more than four decades. Ahead of her latest cinema release The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and the publication of her first novel Not Quite Nice, the actress talks to Mark Lawson about her life and career.
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Frances de la Tour

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From the long-suffering Miss Jones in Rising Damp to headmistress Madame Maxime in Harry Potter, Tony and triple Olivier award-winning actress Frances de la Tour has a career spanning five decades. The star of stage, screen and television started out at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1960s and is currently thrilling audiences as the giant in Hollywood blockbuster Into the Woods. Mark Lawson talks to her about her life and career.
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PD James

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Mark Lawson talks to one of Britain's greatest exponents of the detective novel, the late PD James. In this frank discussion she talks about her need to write, the impact that the two world wars have had on her, religion and death.
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Michael Morpurgo

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An extended interview with the author and former children's laureate Michael Morpurgo, who has written over 100 books.

Born Lippy: Jo Brand

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Mark Lawson talks to comedian, writer and actress Jo Brand. After a decade working as a psychiatric nurse, Jo turned her hand to comedy in the 1980s and has spent nearly 30 years at the top of what is widely accepted to be a male-dominated genre, receiving recognition by BAFTA in 2011 for her performance in the sitcom Getting On.

Julian Barnes

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Booker Prize-winning novelist Julian Barnes talks about love, death, memory and grief.
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