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 17 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in June 2025.
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Alison Steadman tells the story of groundbreaking 1974 TV drama Girl. Once thought lost forever, the film later resurfaced, giving Alison the opportunity to share her memories.
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Actor Brian Cox takes a fond look back on a character who occupies a very special place in his heart, the would-be MP for Broughty Ferry, Bob Servant.
Laurence Rees looks back on his acclaimed 1997 documentary series The Nazis: A Warning from History, which explored the reasons why Germany fell in thrall to the Nazis.
Alison Steadman looks back at Dennis Potter’s influential TV drama series The Singing Detective, once described by Stephen King as ‘television’s Citizen Kane’.
Sir Simon Schama looks back on his 2006 series The Power of Art, which examined the works of eight artists and explored the question 'How powerful is art, can it change your life?'.
Historian Andrew Roberts looks back on AJP Taylor's 1976 series The War Lords, in which he examines the lives and motives of the key leaders in the Second World War.
Elaine Paige looks back on A Night on the Town – a musical extravaganza from the early 1980s, filmed with a mostly American cast of singers and dancers.
Writer Jimmy McGovern looks back on his 2014 drama based on the UK's controversial joint enterprise law.
Gary Wilmot looks back fondly on his time presenting Showstoppers, a 1995 series jam-packed with well-known hits from musical theatre.
Screenwriter Jimmy McGovern looks back on his acclaimed, but controversial, 1995 drama Priest.
Writer Jimmy McGovern looks back on his 1997 TV drama The Lakes.
The great opera singer Sir Willard White recalls his experiences on the first televised production of George Gershwin’s classic opera Porgy and Bess.
Dame Janet Suzman looks back on her role as Joan of Arc in the BBC's groundbreaking productions of the landmark Royal Shakespeare Company's The War of the Roses.
David Olusoga looks back on the 1986 BBC drama documentary series about French artists David, Ingres and Géricault, which had a profound influence on him as a young man.
Writer Tony Marchant looks back on his 1989 drama Take Me Home, a troubled love story set amidst a political backdrop of changing attitudes, technological advances and residential development.
Actor Adrian Lester looks back on the celebrated 1996 Donmar Warehouse revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical Company.
Dame Sian Phillips looks back on Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood and her own experiences with the adaptions that have brought the celebrated ‘play for voices’ to cinema and television audiences.