Urban Myths

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  E1Les Dawson's Parisienne Adventure

  Oct 7, 2020· 23m

  Inspired by his heroes, the writers Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, a young Les Dawson leaving his home in Manchester to live in Paris in order to pursue his dream of becoming a serious novelist. Unfortunately, things didn't quite work out as he planned, and he ended up becoming a pianist in a brothel.

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  E2When Joan Kissed Barbra

  Oct 14, 2020· 23m

  As Joan Rivers told it, before she and Barbra Streisand were famous, they were in an off-Broadway play together. Failing as a club comic and returning to more artistic pursuits, Rivers demanded she be cast in the production without even reading the script. The result: the role she was given called for a love scene between herself and Streisand.

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  E3Hendrix & Handel

  Oct 21, 2020· 23m

  Housemates separated by time, Jimi Hendrix and George Frideric Handel grapple with the stresses of the music business in this funny and intimate portrait of two eccentric musical geniuses and the events leading up to a transformative moment when Jimi saw Handel's ghost.

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  E4Orson Welles in NorwichFinale

  Oct 28, 2020· 23m

  A story of how the great star briefly went missing in Norwich in 1972 whilst working on F for Fake, a faux documentary now regarded as his last masterpiece.

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  E1Princess Diana, Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett

  Apr 10, 2019· 23m

  Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett put a disguise on their good friend, Princess Diana, and take her out for a night on the town, ending up at a club which results in an encounter with Gareth, a drag artist with a painful secret.

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  E2Andy & The Donald

  Apr 17, 2019· 23m

  In 1984, property magnate and entrepreneur Donald Trump bought an American football team. In an attempt to stir up some publicity, he held cheerleader auditions in the basement of Trump Tower with a panel of celebrity judges, including Andy Warhol.

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  E3Bleak House Guest

  Apr 24, 2019· 23m

  The true-ish story of when Dickens superfan Hans Christian Andersen turned up unexpectedly on Charles and Catherine Dickens' doorstep quickly proving to be the most impossible (and unshakeable) house-guest imaginable.

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  E4The Trial of Joan Collins

  May 1, 2019· 44m

  The film will cover Collins' extraordinary real-life 1996 court case with publishers Random House, who had paid her a whopping advance for a novel, only to claim that her submitted manuscript was "unreadable".

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  E5Grace Under Pressure

  May 8, 2019· 23m

  A burglar stumbled into Grace Jones and artist Jean-Paul Goude’s New York apartment, armed with a very small gun. When he inadvertently chose to break into Grace and Jean-Paul’s home, he ended up with more than he bargained, having to deal with these two flamboyant, volatile lovers.

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  E6Madonna and Basquiat

  May 15, 2019· 23m

  Before she was famous, Madonna had a short but passionate and influential relationship with Jean Michel Basquiat, a pioneer and darling of the 1980s New York art scene. This myth takes place across one night on the New York subway, just before Madonna infamously door-stepped music producer Seymour Stein at his hospital bedside where he signed her on the spot.

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  E7Paul McCartney's Scrambled Eggs

  May 22, 2019· 23m

  Paul McCartney dreams a tune, and become obsessed with finding out what it is. The story of how the song "Yesterday" was made.

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  E8Mick Jagger and Princess MargaretFinale

  May 29, 2019· 23m

  Examining the decades-long friendship between Mick Jagger and Princess Margaret, we find out that Tony Blair submitted Jagger’s name for the Queen’s Honours’ List annually, from 1997 to 2002. However, every year the Queen turned him down. This comic tale travels from London to the Caribbean and dives head-first into the worlds of rock and royalty to ponder exactly why that was.

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  E1Marilyn Monroe and Billy Wilder: 'It's Me, Sugar'

  Apr 12, 2018· 23m

  Comedy about Marilyn Monroe's bust-up with Billy Wilder.

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  E213.7.85: Backstage at Live Aid

  Apr 19, 2018· 23m

  Behind the scenes at Love Aid, as Bob Geldof, Midge Ure, Elton John, Sade, Freddie Mercury, Status Quo and many more cross paths

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  E3Johnny Cash and the Ostrich

  Apr 26, 2018· 23m

  The tale of Johnny Cash's dramatic run-in with a killer ostrich in a Nottingham hotel

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  E4The Dali and The Cooper

  May 3, 2018· 23m

  Alice Cooper and Salvador Dali spend a weird weekend in 1970s New York City

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  E5When Bowie Met Bolan

  May 10, 2018· 23m

  In the 1960s, the young rock superstars spend an afternoon decorating their manager's Soho office.

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  E6The Mysterious Case of Agatha Christie

  May 17, 2018· 23m

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Dorothy L Sayers join the manhunt when fellow crime writer Agatha Christie mysteriously disappears without trace

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  E7Public Enemy (Feat. Kev Wells)

  May 24, 2018· 23m

  When the rap icons find themselves late for a gig and without transport, a kindly local fan offers them a lift

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  E8Sex Pistols Vs Bill GrundyFinale

  May 31, 2018· 23m

  The punk band unleash hell on live TV in 1976

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