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Dennis Potter

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Available for 8 months

1987 edition in which Alan Yentob interviews TV dramatist Dennis Potter about his work through the years, touching on subjects such as why and how he started writing, his sense of being different as a child, the insularity of his past in Forest of Dean, starting at the BBC in 1959 and a failed attempt at going into politics. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Alan Yentob
Interviewed Guest:
Dennis Potter
Producer:
Anthony Wall

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