Stephen Fry in Conversation with Alan Yentob

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Alan Yentob talks to Bob Geldof and Stephen Fry about their extraordinary lives.

From the BFI Imax in London, Alan Yentob talks to Bob Geldof and Stephen Fry about their achievements and the challenges they have faced in their extraordinary lives.

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Stephen Fry reflects on both the challenges and achievements of an extraordinary life.

Stephen Fry talks to Alan Yentob about the personal challenges he has faced, and the professional achievements he has enjoyed, before a sell-out audience at the BFI Imax.

At the BFI Imax, in the context of a TV festival leading up to the centennial of the BBC and before a sell-out audience, Alan Yentob engages Stephen Fry - writer, presenter, comedian, actor - in a wide-ranging discussion of the deeply personal challenges he has faced, and the professional achievements he has enjoyed, in his extraordinary life so far, from his jail time as a teenager convicted of credit card theft to his four-decade relationship with the BBC.

Fry reflects on his high-achieving Jewish family roots, his love of language, his life-changing times at Cambridge University, discovering the work of Oscar Wilde, the realisation he was gay, the extraordinary thrill of falling in love, and the mental health challenges he has bravely and publicly confronted.

Some of the TV highlights of his career are screened and discussed, including a comedy classic with Hugh Laurie and Rowan Atkinson.

In Conversation with Alan Yentob: Series 1

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