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The Smoking Diaries Update
As part of an evening of programmes celebrating the life and work of the playwright and diarist, Simon Gray, who died in 2008. This updated Imagine is a rare insight into one of Britain's foremost playwrights, author of many West End hits, but best known for his work with Harold Pinter, and as the writer of the notorious Cell Mates. This intimate film gives a darkly entertaining account of his childhood experiences and very personal views on addictions to smoking, alcohol and the traumas of modern day life for a writer.
Stars:
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Other episodes for this season
![Doris Lessing - The Reluctant Heroine](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/jonMbqdG8UKEYHxZ6Vr1xLwh8Gt.jpg)
![Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/jonMbqdG8UKEYHxZ6Vr1xLwh8Gt.jpg)
![Annie Leibovitz, Life Through A Lens](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/jonMbqdG8UKEYHxZ6Vr1xLwh8Gt.jpg)
![A Trip to Asia: on the Road with the Berlin Philharmonic](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/fLkxQ8Ff5J9MWL60q0eO85NFL0G.jpg)
![A Wild Sheep Chase: in Search of Haruki Murakami](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/5d3cdlLwDSNSDWQH1hJStLM1omt.jpg)
![Werner Herzog: Beyond Reason](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/5YCpuZg3HP7EjbxrZKIM9EDP4xp.jpg)
![Art in Troubled Times: Part II – The Home Front](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/jonMbqdG8UKEYHxZ6Vr1xLwh8Gt.jpg)
![The Smoking Diaries Update](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/jonMbqdG8UKEYHxZ6Vr1xLwh8Gt.jpg)
![Save the Last Dance for Me](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/jonMbqdG8UKEYHxZ6Vr1xLwh8Gt.jpg)
![Rufus Wainwright, Prima Donna](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/jonMbqdG8UKEYHxZ6Vr1xLwh8Gt.jpg)
![Art in Troubled Times: Part II – The Home Front](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/jonMbqdG8UKEYHxZ6Vr1xLwh8Gt.jpg)