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This documentary celebrates Jilly Cooper as a supremely insightful, funny and sharp-eyed chronicler of our lives and times.

This documentary celebrates Jilly Cooper as a supremely insightful, funny and sharp-eyed chronicler of our lives and times. Other English writers may have won more literary prizes but few have so consistently held up a mirror to the English as they really are, their foibles and fantasies, attitudes to sex, love, money, manners and class. In doing so she has created a vision of England that the whole world has fallen in love with.

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44 minutes

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Mon 6 Oct 202523:00
BBC Two

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Credits

Featured ArtistJilly Cooper
ProducerJohn Shirley
Executive ProducerNeil Crombie
Executive ProducerJoe Evans
DirectorMichael Waldman
Production CompanySwan Films

Broadcasts

  • Mon 30 Sep 202422:40
    BBC One except Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland HD, Wales & Wales HD
  • Mon 30 Sep 202423:40
    BBC One Wales & Wales HD only
  • Tue 1 Oct 202400:05
    BBC One Northern Ireland & Northern Ireland HD only
  • Fri 4 Oct 202400:10
    BBC One except Northern Ireland & Northern Ireland HD
  • Fri 4 Oct 202400:50
    BBC One Northern Ireland & Northern Ireland HD only
  • Thu 10 Oct 202400:50
    BBC Two
  • Mon 6 Oct 202523:00
    BBC Two

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