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 32 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in August 2025.
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Stephen Poliakoff looks back on his 1999 TV series Shooting the Past, revealing how he was given the brief to write something 'totally different from anything seen before'.
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Paul Lewis provides a glimpse into the life and career of a performer assured of his place as one of the greatest musicians of the postwar era, classical pianist Alfred Brendel.
July 2025
TV presenter Michael Aspel looks back on one of the BBC’s most controversial programmes of the 1960s, The War Game.
Dame Helen Mirren looks back on one of her earliest television roles in the BBC’s 1975 adaptation of JM Barrie’s The Little Minister.
Helen Mirren looks back on her role in Robert Altman’s acclaimed and multi-award-winning 2001 film Gosford Park, written by Downton Abbeycreator Julian Fellowes.
Patrick Marber looks back on his 1995 adaptation of August Strindberg's classic play Miss Julie.
Writer Debbie Horsfield looks back on Cutting It, her drama series following the personal and professional rivalries of two competing Manchester hair salons.
Nicholas Shakespeare looks back on the film he made for Omnibus that followed his friend and fellow writer Mario Vargas Llosa in his bid to become president of Peru.
Screenwriter Debbie Horsfield shares the story of how her TV adaptation of Winston Graham's novels came about and describes the challenges of bringing it up to date for a modern audience.
Producer George Gallaccio explains how Agatha Christie’s tales of death and deception were brought to life for the small screen and describes the pleasures of working with actress Joan Hickson.
Frank McGuinness and Julie Nicholson look back on the 2015 drama that explored the impact of the 7/7 bombing at Edgware Road tube station.
June 2025
Actors Amanda Root and Sophie Thompson look back on their roles in the BBC’s 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion, a story of missed opportunities and lost love.
Katharine Schlesinger looks back on the filming of the 1987 adaptation of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey.
Romola Garai shares her experiences of filming the much-loved 2009 series Emma, recalling how she drew on the text to bring Austen’s complicated heroine to life.
Actor Brian Cox looks back on the filming of the 1991 movie The Lost Language of Cranes, about a man struggling to come to terms with his sexuality and family secrets.
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.
May 2025
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?'.