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Remembers…
Season 4 · Episode 53
William Nicholson Remembers… Shadowlands
0.019mDecember 17, 2025
Screenwriter William Nicholson recalls the making of the 1985 BBC drama Shadowlands, an exploration of faith, love and loss starring Joss Ackland and Claire Bloom.
Episodes
- Episode 1Ruth Jones Remembers… Hattie
- Episode 2Vivien Heilbron Remembers… Cloud Howe
- Episode 3Vivien Heilbron Remembers… Grey Granite
- Episode 4David Herman Remembers… Face to Face
- Episode 5Adrian Lester Remembers… Company
- Episode 6Tony Marchant Remembers… Take Me Home
- Episode 7David Olusoga Remembers… Artists and Models
- Episode 8Willard White Remembers… Porgy and Bess
- Episode 9Jimmy McGovern Remembers… The Lakes
- Episode 10Jimmy McGovern Remembers… Priest
- Episode 11Gary Wilmot Remembers… Showstoppers
- Episode 12Jimmy McGovern Remembers… Common
- Episode 13Elaine Paige Remembers… A Night on the Town
- Episode 14Andrew Roberts Remembers… AJP Taylor's The War Lords
- Episode 15Simon Schama Remembers… The Power of Art
- Episode 16Laurence Rees Remembers… The Nazis: A Warning from History
- Episode 17Brian Cox Remembers… Bob Servant
- Episode 18Alison Steadman Remembers… Girl
- Episode 19Brian Cox Remembers… The Lost Language of Cranes
- Episode 20Romola Garai Remembers… Emma
- Episode 21Katharine Schlesinger Remembers… Northanger Abbey
- Episode 22Amanda Root and Sophie Thompson Remember… Persuasion
- Episode 23Frank McGuinness & Julie Nicholson Remember… A Song for Jenny
- Episode 24George Gallaccio Remembers… Miss Marple
- Episode 25Debbie Horsfield Remembers… Poldark
- Episode 26Nicholas Shakespeare Remembers… Mario Vargas Llosa
- Episode 27Debbie Horsfield Remembers… Cutting It
- Episode 28Patrick Marber Remembers… After Miss Julie
- Episode 29Helen Mirren Remembers… Gosford Park
- Episode 30Helen Mirren Remembers… The Little Minister
- Episode 31Michael Aspel Remembers… The War Game
- Episode 32Paul Lewis Remembers… Alfred Brendel
- Episode 33Stephen Poliakoff Remembers… Shooting the Past
- Episode 34Jasper Carrott Remembers…
- Episode 35Stephen Poliakoff Remembers… Perfect Strangers
- Episode 36Phil Davis Remembers… The Firm
- Episode 37Sarah Churchwell Remembers… The Great Gatsby
- Episode 38Anthony Wall Remembers… Arena
- Episode 39Waris Hussein Remembers… The Clothes in the Wardrobe
- Episode 40Bhasker Patel Remembers… Brothers in Trouble
- Episode 41William Nicholson Remembers… Sweet as You Are
- Episode 42Professor Angie Hobbs Remembers… The Great Philosophers
- Episode 43Lord Mervyn King Remembers… The Age of Uncertainty
- Episode 44David Hare Remembers… The Absence of War
- Episode 45Ian McNeice Remembers… Edge of Darkness
- Episode 46Emma Thompson and Paul Murton Remember… The Blue Boy
- Episode 47Matthew Bourne Remembers… Swan Lake
- Episode 48Graham Reid Remembers… The Precious Blood
- Episode 49Graham Reid Remembers… Life After Life
- Episode 50Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens Remember… Jane Eyre
- Episode 51Kay Adshead Remembers… Wuthering Heights
- Episode 52Michael Aspel Remembers… The Evacuees
- Episode 53William Nicholson Remembers… Shadowlands
- Episode 54Derek Griffiths Remembers… Bod
- Episode 55Michael Palin Remembers… East of Ipswich
- Episode 56Peter Egan and Penelope Wilton Remember… Ever Decreasing Circles
- Episode 57Samuel West Remembers… Prunella Scales