His wife was told to burn it all. She didn't. Doddy's secrets are OUT.
Produced over four years with full access from Ken’s widow Lady Dodd, the film takes an in-depth look into Doddy’s private world, exploring the many secrets of his comic talent, revealing never-before-seen home-videos, stage performances and extracts from some of the thousands of Ken’s diary notebooks which he’d asked his wife to burn after his death. Wrestling with her conscience for quite some time, Lady Dodd, finally agrees with entertainment historians, museum curators and many of Ken’s admirers like Stephen K Amos, Harry Hill, Shaparak Khorsandi, Lee Mack, Paul O’Grady, Johnny Vegas, and Sir Ian McKellen to preserve Doddy’s notebooks for posterity. These stars explore their passion and memories of Ken in this candid, insightful film which takes you backstage behind the red curtain to reveal a far more intriguing man than the public or even his wife ever realised.
Acting
Miriam Margolyes narrates with absolute *devastating* tenderness.
Production
Diary notebooks that nearly became ash — the ultimate found-footage tension.
Director
Eric Harwood
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ken Dodd kept diaries for decades but never told his wife their contents — she discovered them after his death.
The title's 'The Man I Loved' is Lady Dodd's direct address — she married him at 71, spent only their final years together, and still wrestled with his ghost.
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