Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life - Imagine

BBC Two Northern Ireland

1:25 AM to 3:00 AM

Monday 9 June

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Tom Stoppard is one of the world's leading, funniest and cleverest playwrights. Ever since he hit the ground running in the 1960s with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, there has always been a streak of melancholy beneath the sparkling surface of his work. In this programme from 2021, he recounts his extraordinary life story to Alan Yentob and talks about his 2020 play Leopoldstadt, in which he came full circle and faced up to the pain and loss in his past