Remembers...
Remembers... is a TV show on BBC4. 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. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 52 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in November 2025.
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Playwright Graham Reid looks back on his 1995 TV drama Life After Life, a powerful addition to his work on the Troubles, about a murderer released into ceasefire Belfast.
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Writer Graham Reid looks back on his 1996 BBC drama The Precious Blood, set in a Belfast trying to secure a lasting peace and starring Amanda Burton and Kevin McNally.
Acclaimed choreographer and director Sir Matthew Bourne discusses his groundbreaking reinterpretation of Tchaikovsky's classic ballet Swan Lake.
Emma Thompson and Paul Murton discuss The Blue Boy, a film Paul was inspired to write after a spooky experience the pair shared during a late-night lock-in at a haunted inn as teenagers.
Actor Ian McNeice looks back on the 1985 political thriller Edge of Darkness, which quickly established itself as a landmark series in British TV history.
October 2025
Screenwriter David Hare looks back on his 1995 political drama The Absence of War, a fictional account of a Labour general election campaign.
Dame Patricia Routledge recalls how the character of Hyacinth Bucket first entered her life and looks back on the part she played in bringing to life one of TV’s most formidable comedy characters.
Dame Patricia Routledge recalls Miss Pym's Day Out, in which she portrayed legendary author Barbara Pym in an RTS Award-winning episode of Bookmark, set on the day of the 1977 Booker Prize Awards.
Talking Heads was Alan Bennett’s acclaimed series of one-off tele-plays, written specifically for a selection of some of his favourite actors, including the great Dame Patricia Routledge.
Former governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King looks back on the BBC’s 1977 series on the history of economic thinking, The Age of Uncertainty.
Professor Angie Hobbs gives a modern view on Bryan Magee’s highly influential series The Great Philosophers, explaining how it inspired her and many others to explore philosophy.
Acclaimed screenwriter William Nicholson looks back on the BBC drama he still considers one of his finest achievements, 1988's As Sweet as You Are.
Actor Bhasker Patel looks back on his experience playing Gholam in the 1995 film Brothers in Trouble.
September 2025
Director Waris Hussein talks about his memories of making the 1993 TV drama The Clothes in the Wardrobe, adapted from the Alice Thomas Ellis novel by Martin Sherman.
Anthony Wall looks back on his time on Arena, from producer to series editor, and celebrates the films and people that made it groundbreaking, unmissable, unforgettable TV.
Sarah Churchwell looks at the origins of The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald's evocative novel of the Roaring Twenties, and the inspiration behind its plot and characters.
Phil Davis pays tribute to maverick director Alan Clarke as he looks back on his time acting in the 1989 made-for-television film The Firm.
August 2025
Dame Eileen Atkins tells the story of her lifelong fascination with Virginia Woolf and recalls how she took on the challenge of adapting Woolf's Mrs Dalloway for the big screen.
Patrick Marber looks back on his 1995 adaptation of August Strindberg's classic play Miss Julie.
Stephen Poliakoff gives an insight into the making of his landmark BBC drama Perfect Strangers.