In My Own Words: Jilly Cooper
In My Own Words: Jilly Cooper
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
In My Own Words: Jilly Cooper airs on BBC One North West at 12:10 AM, Friday 4 October. (Subtitles, repeat, audio description.)
Topics
Arts ➝ Culture (without music)
General
Jilly Cooper
Contributor
John Shirley
Producer
Michael Waldman
Director