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Marian Keyes: My (not so) Perfect Life

imagine... 2022

Alan Yentob meets Marian Keyes to explore her incredible journey from hard-partying waitress to best-selling author and everything she's learned about life, love and storytelling.

Author Marian Keyes is loved and ired the world over for her darkly comic and confessional writing. Her novels, which are often described as comedy romance or chick lit, draw on her own experience of growing up in a rowdy Irish Catholic family, her struggles with alcohol addiction and depression and the quest to find her very own Mr Right in the shape of her husband, Tony. Alan Yentob meets Marian to explore her incredible journey from hard-partying waitress to internationally best-selling author and everything that she's learnt about life, love and story-telling along the way.

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58 minutes

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Mon 7 Feb 2022 23:35
BBC One Northern Ireland HD & Northern Ireland only

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Credits

Presenter Alan Yentob
Interviewed Guest Marian Keyes
Director Katy Homan
Producer Katy Homan
Executive Producer Tanya Hudson
Series Editor Alan Yentob

Broadcasts

  • Mon 7 Feb 2022 22:35
    BBC One except Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland HD, Wales & Wales HD
  • Mon 7 Feb 2022 23:05
    BBC One Wales & Wales HD only
  • Mon 7 Feb 2022 23:35
    BBC One Northern Ireland HD & Northern Ireland only

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