Episodes
| Episode | Repeated | Comments |
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| 01 | 20100712 (BBC7) 20141201 (BBC7) | The playwright and diarist's frank, moving and often painfully funny account of coming to terms with his terminal cancer. Read by Toby Stephens. |
| 01 | 20120227 (BBC7) | The playwright and diarist's frank, moving and often painfully funny account of coming to terms with his terminal cancer. The playwright's moving and funny account of coming to terms with his terminal cancer. |
| 01 | 20100712 (BBC7) 20141202 (BBC7) | The playwright's moving and funny account of coming to terms with his terminal cancer. |
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| 02 | 20100713 (BBC7) 20141202 (BBC7) | The doctor reveals the bad news about the playwright's cancer in his 'last written words on the subject of myself'. Read by Toby Stephens. |
| 02 | 20120228 (BBC7) | The doctor reveals the bad news about the playwright's cancer in his 'last written words on the subject of myself'. Read by Toby Stephens. The doctor reveals the bad news about the playwright's cancer. Read by Toby Stephens. |
| 02 | 20100713 (BBC7) 20141203 (BBC7) | The playwright and diarist's 'last written words on the subject of myself'. |
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| 03 | 20100714 (BBC7) 20141203 (BBC7) | Facing terminal cancer, the playwright turns to newspaper obituaries and ends up wondering 'how many years did they manage?'. Read by Toby Stephens. |
| 03 | 20120229 (BBC7) | Facing terminal cancer, the playwright turns to newspaper obituaries and ends up wondering 'how many years did they manage?'. The playwright turns to newspaper obituaries, wondering 'how many years did they manage?'. |
| 03 | 20100714 (BBC7) 20141204 (BBC7) | The playwright turns to newspaper obituaries, wondering 'how many years did they manage?'. |
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| 04 | 20100715 (BBC7) 20141205 (BBC7) | An overcrowded airport provides the material for a darkly comic tableau. |
| 04 | 20100715 (BBC7) 20141204 (BBC7) | As the playwright faces terminal cancer, an overcrowded airport provides the material for a darkly comic tableau. Read by Toby Stephens. |
| 04 | 20120301 (BBC7) | As the playwright faces terminal cancer, an overcrowded airport provides the material for a darkly comic tableau. An overcrowded airport provides the material for a darkly comic tableau. |
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| 05 LAST | 20100716 (BBC7) 20141205 (BBC7) | Coming to terms with his terminal cancer, the playwright experiences the joys of a christening, then goes to collect the results of his scan. Read by Toby Stephens. |
| 05 LAST | 20120302 (BBC7) | Coming to terms with his terminal cancer, the playwright experiences the joys of a christening, then goes to collect the results of his scan. The playwright experiences the joys of a christening, then collects his scan results. |
| 05 LAST | 20100716 (BBC7) 20141206 (BBC7) | The playwright experiences the joys of a christening, then collects his scan results. |