The Interviews
- TV documentary
- U&Gold
- 2015 - 2016
- 12 episodes (2 series)
A series profiling comedians via their chat show appearances. Features Dawn French and Tamsin Greig.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 4 - Oliver Reed
Further details
This episode looks back over the life and career of one of this country's biggest film stars of the 1960s and 70s, shedding light on his childhood and early days as an actor, as well as charting his increasing dependence on alcohol through his drunken and erratic chat show appearances.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Wednesday 15th July 2015
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- U&Gold
- Length
- 60 minutes
Cast & crew
| Dawn French | Narrator |
| Oliver Reed | Self (Archive Material) |
| Michael Parkinson | Self (Archive Material) |
| Russell Harty | Self (Archive Material) |
| Michael Aspel | Self (Archive Material) |
| Des O'Connor | Self (Archive Material) |
| David Frost | Self (Archive Material) |
| Eamonn Andrews | Self (Archive Material) |
| Judy Finnigan | Self (Archive Material) |
| Richard Madeley | Self (Archive Material) |
| Johnny Carson | Self (Archive Material) |
| Kate Millett | Self (Archive Material) |
| Helena Kennedy | Self (Archive Material) |
| Mike Williams | Series Producer |
| John Quinn | Executive Producer |
| Iain Coyle | Executive Producer |
| Sean Doherty | Executive Producer |
| Tom Heaney | Editor |
Press
Dawn French narrates this profile of volatile actor Oliver Reed. Reed's life story is told through his many interviews, which were of inevitably variable quality due to his enduring fondness for the sauce. Although Reed lived up to his reputation as a hellraiser, for every encounter where he's slurring and the worse for wear, there's another in which he's the perfect gentleman. His anecdotes testify to a life lived richly as this entertaining hour of excerpts proves.
Hannah Verdier, The Guardian, 13th October 2017