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Beautiful People

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Fabulous comedy with Layton Williams and Olivia Colman.

From Berkshire to the big time. The true(ish) tales of a teen yearning for glamour while stuck in 90s suburbia. Fanciful, fabulous comedy with Layton Williams and Olivia Colman.

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Beautiful People: Series 1

Layton Williams

Olivia Colman

Aidan McArdle

Meera Syal

Jonathan Harvey

Justin Davies

Beautiful People: Series 1: Episode 3: How I Got My Beads

Comedy: Sitcoms

How I Got My Beads

Episode 3

Episode 3: How I Got My Beads

BBC Two - Beautiful People, Series 1, How I Got My Beads

Simon Doonan, now in New York, remembers his grandmother's return from a mental hospital.

Simon Doonan remembers his mother's experiments with the occult and his grandmother's return from a mental hospital, which saw her change rather radically.

Simon Doonan now living in New York, remembers his extraordinary childhood growing up in Reading during the 90s where glamour was in short supply and his extended family were far from the beautiful people he and his best friend Kyle, known as Kylie, longed to move amongst.

Simon remembers his mother's experiments with the occult and his grandmother's return from a mental hospital, which saw her change rather radically from the nicest granny in the world. Featuring conjoined twins and a bingo caller.

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