6/6. The Smoking Diaries. Playwright and author Simon Gray 's recent autobiography offers a turbulent mixture of memoir and anecdote and charts his addictions to smoking and alcohol. To mark its publication and the opening of his latest play The Old Masters, Alan Yentob presents a rare insight into the 50-year career of one of Britain's foremost dramatists. The series returns in the autumn.
Director Margy Kinmonth ; Series producer Ian MacMillan