
National treasure Alison Steadman tells the story of one of the most groundbreaking and yet also most overlooked moments in British television. \n\nDespite the popular perception that Channel 4’s Brookside broadcast TV’s first lesbian kiss in 1994, in reality it was Alison and Myra Frances who first broke the taboo 20 years earlier, in the 1974 drama Girl. \n\nOnce thought lost forever, due to the fact that not every programme was archived back in those times, the drama later resurfaced, thanks to a random video recording – giving Alison the opportunity to share her memories of how she approached the moment and the reaction it received.
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Lord Mervyn King Remembers The Age Of Uncertainty
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Professor Angie Hobbs Remembers The Great Philosophers
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William Nicholson Remembers Sweet As You Are
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Bhasker Patel Remembers Brothers In Trouble
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Waris Hussein Remembers The Clothes In The Wardrobe
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Anthony Wall Remembers Arena
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Sarah Churchwell Remembers The Great Gatsby
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Phil Davis Remembers The Firm
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. \n\nPhil recalls how he was cast in t ...
17-09-2025
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Patrick Marber Remembers After Miss Julie
After years of success in comedy, writing for programmes like The Day Today and various Alan Partridge projects, Patrick Marber took many by surprise when he revealed in 1995 th ...
24-08-2025
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Stephen Poliakoff Remembers Perfect Strangers
Inspired by a similar incident in Stephen Poliakoff’s life, Perfect Strangers tells the tale of a family reunion, a gathering of the disparate clans of a family long separ ...
20-08-2025
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Waris Hussein Remembers The Clothes In The Wardrobe
The Clothes in the Wardrobe is a tale of contrasts: Egypt and Croydon, love and religion, conformity and liberation. Alice Thomas Ellis's novel was adapted for TV by Martin Sher ...
24-09-2025
BBC 4
Phil Davis Remembers The Firm
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. \n\nPhil recalls how he was cast in t ...
17-09-2025
BBC 4
Anthony Wall Remembers Arena
When Anthony Wall, a young music journalist and radio trainee, joined the BBC Arena team in 1978, he had no idea what lasting impact this documentary arts strand would have on h ...
22-09-2025
BBC 4
Sarah Churchwell Remembers The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald's evocative novel of the Roaring Twenties, is full of 'careless people' with voices 'full of money' chasing their versions of the Great Amer ...
18-09-2025
BBC 4
Lord Mervyn King Remembers The Age Of Uncertainty
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. \n\nWritten and present ...
19-10-2025
BBC 4
Bhasker Patel Remembers Brothers In Trouble
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01-10-2025
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Professor Angie Hobbs Remembers The Great Philosophers
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13-10-2025
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Gary Wilmot Remembers Showstoppers
Gary Wilmot looks back fondly on his time presenting Showstoppers, a 1995 series jam-packed with well-known hits from musical theatre. \n\nThe series started life as a one-off ...
04-05-2025
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Debbie Horsfield Remembers Poldark
In 2015, Aidan Turner's charismatic portrayal of Ross Poldark set the nation’s viewers’ hearts racing, thanks in no small part to the work of screenwriter and execut ...
09-07-2025
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Stephen Poliakoff Remembers Shooting The Past
Having forged a reputation with films such as She’s Been Away, City Sugar and the Bafta-winning Caught on a Train, Shooting the Past was Stephen Poliakoff’s first th ...
13-08-2025
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