23 Mar 2014
A Place of Our Own
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Nothing Like a Dame
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BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as they reminisce over a long summer weekend in a house Joan once shared with Sir Laurence Olivier.
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Maggie Smith Self
Judi Dench Self
Eileen Atkins Self
Joan Plowright Self
Frank Finlay Self (archive footage)
John Gielgud Self (archive footage)
Julian Glover Self (archive footage)
Sheridan Morley Self (archive footage)
Laurence Olivier Self (archive footage)
Kim Philby Self (archive footage)
Vanessa Redgrave Self (archive footage)
Robert Stephens Self (archive footage)
Michael Aspel Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alan Bates Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
George Devine Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Edith Evans Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bob Hoskins Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rory Kinnear Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robert Morley Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
King Charles III of the United Kingdom Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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