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In Confidence

Season 4 2012

  • 2012-07-01T23:00:00Z on Sky Arts
  • 55m
  • 4h 35m (5 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Talk Show
Professor Laurie Taylor confronts Britain's most culturally expressive characters in intimate interviews.

10 episodes

Season Premiere

2012-07-01T23:00:00Z

4x01 Brian Blessed

Season Premiere

4x01 Brian Blessed

  • 2012-07-01T23:00:00Z55m

Brian Blessed discusses acting, mountaineering and meditation with Laurie Taylor.

He also reveals how, as a child, he insulted Picasso and took on boxer Bruce Woodcock.

2012-07-08T23:00:00Z

4x02 Fay Weldon

4x02 Fay Weldon

  • 2012-07-08T23:00:00Z55m

2012-07-15T23:00:00Z

4x03 Terry Gilliam

4x03 Terry Gilliam

  • 2012-07-15T23:00:00Z55m

2012-07-22T23:00:00Z

4x04 Griff Rhys Jones

4x04 Griff Rhys Jones

  • 2012-07-22T23:00:00Z55m

Laurie Taylor discusses comic timing, Smith and Jones, Talkback Productions and the
pressures on comedians today with one of the richest people in British broadcasting.

2012-07-29T23:00:00Z

4x05 Lucinda Lambton

4x05 Lucinda Lambton

  • 2012-07-29T23:00:00Z55m

Writer, photographer and broadcaster Lady Lucinda Lambton gets a grilling by Laurie Taylor as they discuss her overwhelming family history, leaving school at the age of 13, and her crusade on behalf of England’s forgotten architectural heritage.

4x06 Grayson Perry

  • no air date55m

Laurie Taylor talks to Turner Prize-winning potter Grayson Perry, who reveals why he thinks conceptual art has become ordinary. He also discusses his working methods, including how he put together his British Museum exhibition The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman, and why he believes people are no longer shocked by his cross-dressing.

4x07 Michael Frayn

  • no air date55m

Laurie Taylor talks to Michael Frayn, who discusses the timeless popularity of his 1982 farce Noises Off, the differences between writing for the stage and prose fiction and how his work has helped him overcome his inner fears.

4x08 Tony Benn

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Laurie Taylor talks to politician Tony Benn, who offers an insider's perspective on the Labour party and offers his thoughts on former prime minister Tony Blair. He also reveals which politicians he retains an admiration for and reflects on his relationship with son Hilary, who followed in his father's footsteps to also become a Labour MP.

4x09 Anna Scher

  • no air date55m

Laurie Taylor interviews acclaimed acting teacher Anna Scher, whose former pupils include Kathy Burke, Pauline Quirke, Patsy Palmer, Linda Robson and Gary Kemp.

4x10 Alan Ayckbourn

  • no air date55m

The world’s most widely-performed living playwright. After falling in love with the theatre as a schoolboy, he tried unsuccessfully to earn a living as an actor, and only found his true vocation in 1959, when he turned in frustration to writing for the stage. Since then, he’s written more than 75 plays, including the hugely successful Relatively Speaking and Absurd Person Singular, and he still holds the record for the greatest number of plays ever performed simultaneously in the West End. His worldwide popular success is undeniable, but does he sometimes feel critically underestimated, because he writes comedies? And does he ever wish he was delivering the lines on stage, instead of writing them?

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