Alan Ayckbourn: Television & Radio Documentaries

This page offers an at-a-glance guide to some of the major television and radio documentaries which have featured Alan Ayckbourn over the years. It is by no means comprehensive and does not include the vast quantity of minor features on Alan Ayckbourn particularly on regional television and radio stations. Many thanks to John O'Rourke, Jenny Macleod and the BBC’s Genome Project for their in compiling this list.

Note: This website / archive does not hold nor have access to any of the programmes listed below - this page is intended purely as a research and reference tool. If you are interested in the programmes listed, contact the original broadcaster or the British Film Institute for further information.

Title

○ Profile
○ Alan Ayckbourn
○ Desert Island Discs
○ Woman’s Hour
○ Aquarius
○ Summer Interview
○ Man Of Action
○ Calendar People
○ Arena
○ Tonight
○ The Brian Connell Interview
○ The Playwrights
○ Talking About Theatre
○ The Northerners
○ With Great Pleasure
○ Nationwide Goes North
○ Calendar: The Best Sellers
○ A Sense Of Theatre
○ Man Of Action
○ On Location
○ Newsnight
○ Drama Up To Now
○ Various Stages
○ Omnibus
○ Backstage
○ Northern Lights
○ Kaleidoscope
○ Meridian
○ Sixty Minutes
○ The Levin Interviews
○ Kaleidoscope
○ Meridian
○ Pebble Mill At One
○ Brian Matthew
○ Kaleidoscope
○ Today
○ Celebrity Interview
○ Review
○ Talking Theatre
○ Kaleidoscope
○ Wogan
○ Kaleidoscope
○ Meridian
○ The Tingle Factor
○ Third Ear
○ Omnibus
○ Arena
○ Radio 2 Arts Programme
○ Kaleidoscope
○ Kaleidoscope
○ Parkinson’s Sunday Supplement
○ Ayckbourn In Conversation
○ Ayckbourn Godber
○ Junkin’s Jokers
○ Radio 2 Arts Programme
○ The Michael Parkinson Show
○ The Lowdown
○ A View From The Boundary
○ Kaleidoscope
○ The Tingle Factor
○ Kaleidoscope
○ The South Bank Show
○ Kaleidoscope
○ Radio 2 Arts Programme
○ Ayckbourn's Ambition
○ The South Bank Show
○ Woman's Hour
○ Meridian
○ Front Row
○ Newsnight
○ Radio 2 Arts Programme
○ HARDTalk
○ Changing Stages
○ Biography
○ Songs Of Praise
○ Masterclass
○ Backstage
○ Filling The Empty Space
○ Woman's Hour
○ The Ticket
○ The Green Room
○ The Green Room
○ American Theatre Wing
○ The Culture Show
○ Fossilised Fish-Hooks!
○ Surrounded!
○ Front Row
○ Front Row
○ Front Row
○ With Great Pleasure
○ The Strand
○ Front Row
○ Nightwaves
○ LA Theatre Works
○ American Theatre Wing
○ The Liz Green Show
○ Ayckbourn In Action
○ Imagine
○ HARDtalk
○ One On One
○ In Confidence
○ Profile
○ Front Row
○ Front Row
○ Front Row
○ Essential Classics
○ Sir Peter Hall Remembered
○ Our Sarah Jane
○ Today
○ The Mid-Morning Show
○ Look North
○ Morning Edition
○ Front Row

Date

04 / 09 / 1973
01 / 09 / 1974
02 / 11 / 1974
21 / 08 / 1974
— / — / 1974
26 / 08 / 1975
13 / 12 / 1975
28 / 01 / 1976
04 / 02 / 1976
18 / 05 / 1976
04 / 07 / 1976
06 / 09 / 1976
27 / 08 / 1977
06 / 09 / 1977
31 / 12 / 1977
25 / 01 / 1978
07 / 08 / 1978
12 / 10 / 1978
06 / 01 / 1979
31 / 01 / 1979
04 / 06 / 1980
15 / 05 / 1981
31 / 10 / 1981
24 / 01 / 1982
11 / 04 / 1982
27 / 01 / 1984
08 / 05 / 1984
12 / 06 / 1984
18 / 06 / 1984
01 / 07 / 1984
21 / 11 / 1984
01 / 12 / 1984
10 / 12 / 1984
13 / 11 / 1986
08 / 06 / 1987
30 / 07 / 1987
-- / -- / 1987
06 / 03 / 1988
20 / 07 / 1988
13 / 12 / 1988
14 / 06 / 1989
15 / 06 / 1989
05 / 09 / 1989
31 / 12 / 1989
12 / 02 / 1990
13 / 02 / 1990
23 / 03 / 1990
15 / 06 / 1990
29 / 06 / 1990
05 / 10 / 1990
24 / 12 / 1990
01 / 05 / 1991
-- / 06 / 1991
10 / 07 / 1991
12 / 07 / 1991
-- / -- / 1991
07 / 04 / 1992
25 / 07 / 1992
20 / 08 / 1992
-- / -- / 1992
22 / 01 / 1994
30 / 10 / 1994
12 / 01 / 1996
26 / 04 / 1996
-- / 04 / 1996
28 / 07 / 1996
01 / 09 / 1999
08 / 02 / 2000
07 / 08 / 2000
09 / 08 / 2000
11 / 08 / 2000
21 / 10 / 2000
03 / 12 / 2000
-- / -- / 2000
12 / 08 / 2001
-- / -- / 2001
-- / -- / 2001
12 / 05 / 2002
14 / 12 / 2002
23 / 08 / 2003
30 / 04 / 2004
18 / 03 / 2005
01 / 06 / 2005
02 / 06 / 2005
22 / 10 / 2005
24 / 11 / 2005
21 / 10 / 2006
23 / 05 / 2007
23 / 06 / 2008
02 / 04 / 2009
09 / 04 / 2009
10 / 04 / 2009
13 / 04 / 2009
01 / 01 / 2011
05 / 01 / 2011
13 / 08 / 2011
15 / 09 / 2011
16 / 11 / 2011
28 / 03 / 2012
29 / 06 / 2012
03 / 09 / 2012
05 / 04 / 2014
29 / 08 / 2014
25 / 12 / 2014
11 / 07 / 2016
18 / 07 / 2016
12 / 09 / 2017
04 / 05 / 2020
20 / 05 / 2020
20 / 05 / 2020
21 / 05 / 2020
09 / 06 / 2020
06 / 10 / 2024

Channel

BBC Radio
BBC2
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
ITV
TV
BBC Radio 3
TV
BBC2
BBC1
ITV
ITV
BBC Radio 3
BBC1
BBC Radio 4
ITV
ITV
HTV
BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 4
BBC1
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 3
BBC1
BBC2
BBC1
BBC Radio 4
World Service
BBC1
BBC2
BBC Radio 4
World Service
BBC1
BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
LBC
BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC1
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 3
BBC1
BBC2
BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 2
Unknown
ITV
BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2
LBC
BBC1
BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
ITV
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 2
BBC1
ITV
BBC Radio 2
World Service
BBC Radio 4
BBC1
BBC Radio 2
BBC News
BBC2
Artsworld
BBC 1
Artsworld
Artsworld
BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 4
World Service
BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2
iTunes
BBC2
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC World Service
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 3
www.latw.org
iTunes
BBC Radio Leeds
BBC Radio 4
BBC1
BBC News
BBC Radio Leeds
Sky Arts 1
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 3
BBC2
Blu Ray
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio York
BBC1
NPR (USA)
BBC Radio 4

Subject

Career
Career
No details known
No details known
The Norman Conquests
No details known
Favourite music
Writing
Just Between Ourselves
Career
No details known
Career
Scarborough
Career
Favourite poetry & prose
Joking Apart
No details known
No details known
Favourite Albums
Yorkshire
Sisterly Feelings
‘Well Made’ theatre documentary
Way Upstream
Career
Behind the scenes at SJT
The 7 Deadly Virtues
A Chorus Of Disapproval
Intimate Exchanges
Intimate Exchanges
Career
Career
25th anniversary of first play
Artistic Director
Scarborough
A Small Family Business
Henceforward…
Interview with Bob Holness
’Tis Pity She’s A Whore
In conversation with Robert Cushman
Mr A's Amazing Maze Plays
Career
The Revengers’ Comedies
Career
Favourite music
No details known
Career
His agent Margaret Ramsay
In conversation with Austin Mitchell
Man Of The Moment
Othello
No details known
No details known
Writing
What makes people laugh
No details known
No details known
Documentary about invisible friends
Cricket / career - recorded at Headingly
Time Of My Life
Favourite music
Haunting Julia
Playwriting
Stephen Joseph Theatre
Stephen Joseph Theatre
Stephen Joseph Theatre
Playwriting
Comic Potential
Virtual Reality
House & Garden
House & Garden
House & Garden
Career
Career
Career
Scarborough
Directing masterclass
GamePlan
Discussing The Empty Space 30 years on
The Jollies
Sugar Daddies
Drowning On Dry Land
Stephen Joseph Theatre
Career
Improbable Fiction
Anthony Buckeridge / Jennings novels
Theatre-in-the-round
Career
Early career
Interview with Mark Lawson
Favourite readings
International popularity
Career
The Norman Conquests
Henceforward…
Career
BBC Radio career
Directing career
Career
Career
Career at BBC
Career
Life
Roundelay
Career / Roundelay
The Karaoke Theatre Company
Career
Sir Peter Hall
The actress Elisabeth Sladen
Anno Domino / Covid-19
Anno Domino / Covid-19
Anno Domino / Covid-19
Anno Domino / Covid-19
Show & Tell / Scarborough
All research in this section is by Simon Murgatroyd and should be credited if reproduced.