Stephen Fry unlocks a novelist's family secrets in 30 intimate minutes.
Stephen Fry interviews Patrick Gale about his home life and his best-selling novels as part of the BBC's Gay Britannia season, a series of documentaries and films marking 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality.
Writing
Gale's real life bleeds beautifully into his fiction.
Direction
Hardy farmhouse setting mirrors the emotional archaeology.
Director
Alex Harding
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of BBC's 2017 Gay Britannia season marking the 1967 Sexual Offences Act—rare mainstream TV space for intergenerational queer testimony.
Gale's mother burned his diaries; much of his fiction reconstructs what family destroyed.
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