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 most recent episode is from 11 November 2026.
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Ken Loach Remembers... Cathy Come Home of Remembers... was added on Wednesday 11 November 2026.
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Steven Berkoff remembers one of his earliest screen roles, as a junior player in Hamlet in Elsinore, a BBC co-production with Danish television that starred Christopher Plummer as the prince.
October 2026
Film-maker Chris Terrill looks back on his seminal 1996 series Soho Stories.
Sir Derek Jacobi looks back on the 1967 filmed version of Franco Zeffirelli's famous National Theatre production of Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing.
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’.
Dame Helen Mirren looks back on one of her earliest TV roles, playing Rosalind in the BBC's 1978 production of the Shakespeare comedy As You Like It.
Dame Janet Suzman shares her memories of making The Singing Detective, the groundbreaking Dennis Potter drama which is widely regarded as a landmark television moment.
Lesley Manville looks back on Caryl Churchill's play Top Girls, a landmark in British theatre. She shares her memories of the original 1982 stage show and the 1991 BBC adaptation.
David Bamber looks back on the BBC adaptation of Kevin Elyot's play My Night with Reg.
September 2026
British sculptor Henry Moore's daughter Mary looks back on her father's life, work and relationship with television.
Writer David Ireland shares his recollections of his award-winning play Cyprus Avenue, which won huge international praise and gave actor Stephen Rea the role of a lifetime.
Screenwriter Andrew Davies looks back on his acclaimed 1994 adaptation of George Eliot's Middlemarch.
Performance artist Selina Thompson looks back on the 2021 TV adaptation of her award-winning one-woman show Salt.
Stephen Tompkinson looks back on his role in the BBC's 1994 adaptation of the acclaimed Terence Rattigan play The Deep Blue Sea, directed by pioneer of British film Karel Reisz.
Actor Spencer Banks reflects on his leading role in the 1974 Play for Today Penda's Fen, a remarkable coming-of-age story written by David Rudkin and directed by Alan Clarke.
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.
Peter Egan looks back on the 1984 adaptation of Shelagh Delaney's landmark play A Taste of Honey.
August 2026
Maureen Lipman looks back on the filming of the 1985 TV adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn's Absurd Person Singular.
Simon Sebag Montefiore talks about the challenges he faced filming in Rome and about his joy at telling audiences the stories of a city he so clearly loves.
Lady Antonia Fraser looks back fondly on the BBC's 1987 acclaimed adaptation of her husband Harold Pinter's play The Birthday Party.