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Season 1, Episode 16: Famous Gossips: The Years with Mother
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Alan Bennett, portraying the English writer Augustus Hare, recollects stories about Jenny Lind, Sam Johnson, Lord Nelson, Oscar Wilde and more. Adapted from Hare's autobiography. Originally broadcast in 1965.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
Graduation Ball
Episode 2
Ted
Episode 3
McLuhan Tutorial
Episode 4
Music of India
Episode 5
The Man Behind the Book, Part 1: The Writers of the Twenties
Episode 6
Julius Katchen
Episode 7
Concepts of Freedom
Episode 8
Romeo and Juliet
Episode 9
The Scriblerus Club
Episode 10
The Pre-Raphaelites
Episode 11
Dan Leno, Hys Book
Episode 12
Take on Craig
Episode 13
The Vegh Quartet
Episode 14
The Sunshine
Episode 15
Marble Arch to Edgware
Episode 16
Famous Gossips: The Years with Mother
Episode 17
Episode 17
Episode 18
Who Is Ahead of Whom?
Episode 19
The Knight Has Been Unruly
Episode 20
Small Wonder
Episode 21
Bold Nash
Episode 22
Simon Preston
Episode 23
A Writer and His Sword
Episode 24
The Green Table