Ten years ago, in an award-winning series, Stephen Fry first spoke about living with manic depression and began a national conversation about mental health. A decade later, we return to the subject to understand where he and thousands of others diagnosed with bipolar (as it is now called) are now.
Acting
Fry's self-interrogation is performance and reality collapsed.
Writing
Questions asked that documentaries usually dodge.
Director
Ross Wilson
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This aired on BBC Two in 2016, when UK mental health funding was being slashed—making its optimism feel almost politically radical.
Fry's original 2006 documentary won the Emmy; this sequel exists because he promised to return in ten years, a commitment that nearly broke him.
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