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Christopher Eccleston

Christopher Fairbank

Allan Corduner

Andrew Scott

Naoko Mori

Michael Colgan

Craig Cheetham

Jack Morgan

Claudie Blakley

Rory Kinnear

Adrian Bower

Di Botcher

Eileen O'Brien

Debora Weston

Dave Legeno

Charlie Coulthard

Ray MacAllan

Jonathan Rigby

Annabel Leventon

David Annen

Patrick Drury

Helen Bradbury

Dylan Charles

Pieter Lawman

Roderick Smith

Edmund Coulthard

Katherine Lannon

Robert Jones

Lennon Naked

Drama: Biographical

23/06/2010

BBC Four - Lennon Naked

Drama which charts John Lennon's transition from Beatle to icon from 1967 to 1971.

Drama which charts John Lennon's transition from Beatle to enduring and enigmatic icon, covering issues of fatherhood and fame during the traumatic period of 1967 to 1971.

Christopher Eccleston is John Lennon in a drama which charts his transition from Beatle John to enduring and enigmatic icon.

Writer Robert Jones articulates the burden of genius, as well as issues of fatherhood and fame, covering a period of wildly fluctuating fortunes for Lennon from 1967-71. When the Beatles' manager Brian Epstein died unexpectedly in 1967 it was a turning point in Lennon's life and the film focuses on the turbulent and intense period of change that followed, and how John was haunted by his troubled childhood.

It also reveals the impact of re-establishing contact with his long-lost father and the events that led Lennon to shed everything both personally and creatively, including calling time on the Beatles. Meeting Yoko Ono was the catalyst for this new era and the film explores the development of their extraordinary relationship, their growing disillusionment with Britain and what caused Lennon to abandon the UK to start a new life in America - a process which ultimately led Lennon to record arguably the most powerful solo work of his career.

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