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Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Documentary, using dramatised inserts, in which Denise Mina investigates the tortuous and peculiar relationships between horror writer Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Denise Mina
Virginia Poe:
Lucille Sharp
Eliza Poe:
Lauren Marcus
Frances Sargent Osgood:
Anita Vettesse
Sarah Helen Whitman:
Tamara Kennedy
Executive Producer:
Lindsay Shapero

Duration: 1 hour, 22 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland HD

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Drama telling the story of Hollywood's most glamorous couple, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, who acted together for the last time in Noel Coward's Private Lives in 1983. Show more

Contributors

Elizabeth Taylor:
Helena Bonham Carter
Richard Burton:
Dominic West
Kathryn Walker:
Sarah Hadland
John Cullum:
William Hope
Milton Katselas:
Stanley Townsend
Zev Bufman:
Greg Hicks
Liza Todd Burton:
Lucille Sharp
Sally Burton:
Cassie Raine
Journalist:
Trevor White
Journalist:
Jeff Mash