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Eddie Izzard
Believe Me

Believe Me

  • Radio factual
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2017
  • 5 episodes (1 series)

Eddie Izzard reads an abridged version of her new memoir, Believe Me.

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Key details

Genre
Factual
Broadcast
2017
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Episodes
5 (1 series)
Features
Eddie Izzard
Writers
Eddie Izzard and Jill Waters
Producers
Jill Waters
Company

When Eddie Izzard was six, she and her brother Mark lost their mother. That day, she lost her childhood too. Despite or perhaps because of this, she has always felt she needed to take on things that some people would consider impossible.

In Believe Me, Eddie takes us on a journey which begins in Yemen before the revolution, then takes us to Northern Ireland before The Troubles, England and Wales, then across the seas to Europe and America. In a story jam-packed with incident, she tells of teddy bear shows on boarding school beds, renouncing accountancy for sword fighting and making those first tentative steps towards becoming an Action Transvestite, touring France in French, and playing the Hollywood Bowl.

Above all, this is a tale about someone who has always done everything her own way - which often didn't work at first - and, sometimes almost by accident but always with grit and determination, achieving what she set out to do.

Brimming with the surreal humour and disarming candour of her shows, with occasional digressions, Believe Me tells the story of a little girl who lost her mother yet who has risen to become a star of comedy and drama, a leading advocate of total clothing rights, a British European and an extreme runner of marathons who bestrides the world stage as a world stage bestrider.

Abridged from Izzard's memoir, Believe Me.

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Production
Studio

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Monday 26th June 2017 at 9:45am on BBC Radio 4
Most recent repeats
  • Sunday 13th February 2022 at 7:00am on Radio 4 Extra - Episode 5
  • Sunday 13th February 2022 at 6:45am on Radio 4 Extra - Episode 4
  • Sunday 13th February 2022 at 6:30am on Radio 4 Extra - Episode 3

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