In My Own Words Season 1 Episode 5 - Jilly Cooper

Airdate: 2024-Sep-30

Episode summary:

Best-selling novelist and journalist Jilly Cooper reflects on her life and work. Now aged 87, she recalls her childhood in Yorkshire, and her early career in journalism and publishing in the 1950s and 1960s. Jilly revisits the home in south-west London she left 42 years ago, where she lived with her late husband Leo and her children. She also discusses married life, her attitude to sex, moving to the Cotswolds, and the breakthrough success of her 1985 novel, Riders.

About In My Own Words series:

A series of films made up of intimate first-person testimony, mixed with archive and actuality. In My Own Words will take viewers closer than ever ...Show more >