Episodes 4

1 We'll Be Back?

February 9, 2021

59m

Alan Yentob explores the huge ongoing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the UK's pioneering and world-renowned performing arts industry.

2 Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting

March 28, 2021

1h 16m

Alan Yentob explores the remarkable life and work of the trailblazing Anglo-Nigerian writer Bernardine Evaristo, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel Girl, Woman, Other.

3 Bernardine Evaristo: Never Give Up

September 2, 2021

1h 9m

Playwright Tom Stoppard tells Alan Yentob the extraordinary story of his life and his latest play, Leopoldstadt, in which he faces up to the pain and loss in his past.

4 Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life

September 9, 2021

1h 29m

A revealing profile of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, as he publishes his much-anticipated new book, Klara and the Sun.

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