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Running · 2003–

imagine...

The biggest names from the world of art, film, music, literature and dance. Alan Yentob gets close up with those shaping today's cultural world.

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Season 1 · 7 episodes
  1. S01 E01 · The Saatchi Phenomenon
  2. S01 E02 · Barbara Hepworth, Shapes out of Feelings
  3. S01 E03 · The Hip-Hop Generation
  4. S01 E04 · Stella's Story
  5. S01 E05 · Carlos Acosta, the Reluctant Ballet Dancer
  6. S01 E06 · The Portrait of Omai
  7. S01 E07 · John Mortimer Owning up at 80
Season 2 · 6 episodes
  1. S02 E01 · The Voice of Bryn Terfel
  2. S02 E02 · A Funny Business
  3. S02 E03 · Entertaining Mr Soane
  4. S02 E04 · The World According to Parr
  5. S02 E05 · From Pencils to Pixels
  6. S02 E06 · An A-Z of the OED
Season 3 · 6 episodes
  1. S03 E01 · The Mysterious Mr Hopper
  2. S03 E02 · Sitting for Lucian Freud
  3. S03 E03 · Saint John Coltrane
  4. S03 E04 · Dirty But Clean Pierre
  5. S03 E05 · Unsuitable for Children?
  6. S03 E06 · Simon Gray's Smoking Diaries
Season 4 · 5 episodes
  1. S04 E01 · Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture
  2. S04 E02 · Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson's Smile
  3. S04 E03 · Bruce Nauman: The Godfather of Modern Art
  4. S04 E04 · Marlon Brando
  5. S04 E05 · Antonio Pappano: A Year at the Opera
Season 5 · 3 episodes
  1. S05 E01 · A Short History of Tall Buildings - Episode 1
  2. S05 E02 · A Short History of Tall Buildings - Episode 2
  3. S05 E03 · A Short History of Tall Buildings - Episode 3
Season 6 · 3 episodes
  1. S06 E01 · Fantastic Mr Dahl
  2. S06 E02 · Frida Kahlo
  3. S06 E03 · Being a Concert Pianist
Season 7 · 4 episodes
  1. S07 E01 · Elgar and the Missing Concerto
  2. S07 E02 · Amos Oz: The Conscience of Israel
  3. S07 E03 · Chuck Close, Close Up
  4. S07 E04 · Rhythm Is It!
Season 8 · 4 episodes
  1. S08 E01 · Sweet Home New Orleans
  2. S08 E02 · Andy Warhol: Denied
  3. S08 E03 · A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Studio
  4. S08 E04 · Sitting Comfortably
Season 9 · 4 episodes
  1. S09 E01 · Being Hamlet
  2. S09 E02 · Yusuf, the Artist Formerly Known as Cat Stevens
  3. S09 E03 · The Ingenious Thomas Heatherwick
  4. S09 E04 · A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin
Season 10 · 10 episodes
  1. S10 E01 · Peter Pan, a Hard Act to Follow
  2. S10 E02 · Velazquez, The Painter's Painter
  3. S10 E03 · A Play for Today
  4. S10 E04 · The Movie Brats, Take Two
  5. S10 E05 · Who Cares About Art?
  6. S10 E06 · Hans Holbein, International Man of Mystery
  7. S10 E07 · Being a Diva
  8. S10 E08 · www.herecomeseverybody.co.uk
  9. S10 E09 · And Then There Was Television
  10. S10 E10 · The Beatles in Love
Season 11 · 5 episodes
  1. S11 E01 · Gilbert and George: No Surrender
  2. S11 E02 · Stealing Klimt
  3. S11 E03 · Scott Walker
  4. S11 E04 · It's The Surreal Thing
  5. S11 E05 · Damon and Jamie's Excellent Adventure
Season 12 · 8 episodes
  1. S12 E01 · Henry Perkins: Bolshoi Boy
  2. S12 E02 · Bollywood's Big B
  3. S12 E03 · Helvetica
  4. S12 E04 · Louise Bourgeois: Spiderwoman
  5. S12 E05 · How to Get on in the Art World
  6. S12 E06 · The Secret of Life
  7. S12 E07 · Richard Rogers, Inside Out
  8. S12 E08 · Marc Newson: Urban Spaceman
Season 13 · 7 episodes
  1. S13 E01 · Doris Lessing - The Reluctant Heroine
  2. S13 E02 · Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain
  3. S13 E03 · Annie Leibovitz - Life Through a Lens
  4. S13 E04 · A Trip to Asia: On the Road with the Berlin Philharmonic
  5. S13 E05 · A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami
  6. S13 E06 · Werner Herzog: Beyond Reason
  7. S13 E07 · Love, Loss and Anthony Minghella
Season 14 · 10 episodes
  1. S14 E01 · The Story of the Guitar - In The Beginning
  2. S14 E02 · The Story of the Guitar - Out of the Frying Pan
  3. S14 E03 · Dangerous Liaisons: When Akram met Juliette
  4. S14 E04 · The Story of the Guitar - This Time it's Personal
  5. S14 E05 · A Love Story
  6. S14 E06 · Jay-Z: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered
  7. S14 E07 · Let There Be Light
  8. S14 E08 · How an Orchestra Saved Venezuela's Children
  9. S14 E09 · Richard Serra: Man of Steel
  10. S14 E10 · Heavy Metal in Baghdad
Season 15 · 8 episodes
  1. S15 E01 · Yes We Can! The Lost Art Of Oratory
  2. S15 E02 · Save the Last Dance for Me
  3. S15 E03 · David Hockney: A Bigger Picture
  4. S15 E04 · Rufus Wainwright, Prima Donna
  5. S15 E05 · The Colourful Mr Eggleston
  6. S15 E06 · Art in Troubled Times: A New Deal for Art
  7. S15 E08 · Art in Troubled Times: Part II – The Home Front
  8. S15 E10 · The Smoking Diaries Update
Season 16 · 6 episodes
  1. S16 E01 · The Year of Anish Kapoor
  2. S16 E02 · Dame Shirley Bassey: The Girl from Tiger Bay
  3. S16 E03 · Own Art
  4. S16 E04 · Joan Baez... How Sweet the Sound
  5. S16 E05 · Placido Domingo: The Time of My Life
  6. S16 E06 · Scrabble - A Night on the Tiles
Season 17 · 2 episodes
  1. S17 E01 · Vincent Van Gogh: Painted with Words
  2. S17 E02 · The Stones in Exile
Season 18 · 4 episodes
  1. S18 E01 · Nigel Kennedy's Polish Adventure
  2. S18 E02 · Art Is Child's Play
  3. S18 E03 · Growing Old Disgracefully
  4. S18 E04 · Tom Jones - What Good Am I?
Season 19 · 6 episodes
  1. S19 E01 · Ai Weiwei - Without Fear or Favour
  2. S19 E02 · Smash His Camera
  3. S19 E03 · The Weird Adventures of Eadweard Muybridge
  4. S19 E04 · Bruce Springsteen: Darkness Revisited
  5. S19 E05 · Ben-Hur
  6. S19 E06 · Ray Davies - Imaginary Man
Season 20 · 7 episodes
  1. S20 E01 · The Trouble with Tolstoy - 1. At War with Himself
  2. S20 E02 · The Trouble with Tolstoy - 2. In Search of Happiness
  3. S20 E03 · The Man Who Forgot How to Read and Other Stories
  4. S20 E04 · The Pharaohs' Museum on Liberation Square
  5. S20 E05 · Lennon: The New York Years
  6. S20 E06 · Harry Nilsson: The Missing Beatle
  7. S20 E07 · Iraq in Venice
Season 21 · 9 episodes
  1. S21 E01 · U2: From the Sky Down
  2. S21 E02 · Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
  3. S21 E03 · Simon and Garfunkel - The Harmony Game
  4. S21 E04 · Alan Ayckbourn - Greetings from Scarborough
  5. S21 E05 · Vidal Sassoon - A Cut Above
  6. S21 E06 · The Lost Music of Rajasthan
  7. S21 E07 · Books - The Last Chapter?
  8. S21 E08 · The Art Of Stand-Up (Part One)
  9. S21 E09 · The Art Of Stand-Up (Part Two)
Season 22 · 5 episodes
  1. S22 E01 · Theatre of War
  2. S22 E02 · Paul Simon's Graceland - Under African Skies
  3. S22 E03 · Just One Falsetto
  4. S22 E04 · Glasgow: The Grit and the Glamour
  5. S22 E05 · Dancing with Titian
Season 23 · 9 episodes
  1. S23 E01 · The Fatwa - Salman's Story
  2. S23 E02 · Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender
  3. S23 E03 · Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective
  4. S23 E04 · Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story
  5. S23 E05 · Lang Lang
  6. S23 E06 · The Many Lives of William Klein
  7. S23 E07 · How Music Makes Us Feel
  8. S23 E08 · Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me
  9. S23 E09 · A Beauty is Born: Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty
Season 24 · 8 episodes
  1. S24 E01 · Beyoncé: Life is But a Dream
  2. S24 E02 · David Bowie - Cracked Actor
  3. S24 E03 · Vivian Maier - Who Took Nanny's Pictures?
  4. S24 E04 · McCullin
  5. S24 E05 · Rod Stewart: Can't Stop Me Now
  6. S24 E06 · Woody Allen: A Documentary - Part One
  7. S24 E07 · Woody Allen: A Documentary - Part Two
  8. S24 E08 · Zaha Hadid: Who Dares Wins
Season 25 · 6 episodes
  1. S25 E01 · Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin'
  2. S25 E02 · Edmund de Waal: Make Pots or Die
  3. S25 E03 · Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy
  4. S25 E04 · Turning the Art World Inside Out
  5. S25 E05 · Hitler, the Tiger, and Me
  6. S25 E06 · Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?
Season 26 · 4 episodes
  1. S26 E01 · Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca
  2. S26 E02 · Philip Roth Unleashed, Part One
  3. S26 E03 · Philip Roth Unleashed, Part Two
  4. S26 E04 · Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
Season 27 · 7 episodes
  1. S27 E01 · The Art That Hitler Hated
  2. S27 E02 · The Art That Hitler Hated: The Sins of the Fathers
  3. S27 E03 · Bette Midler: The Divine Miss M
  4. S27 E04 · Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On
  5. S27 E05 · Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future
  6. S27 E06 · The One and Only Mike Leigh
  7. S27 E07 · Colm Toibin: His Mother's Son
Season 28 · 5 episodes
  1. S28 E01 · Frank Gehry: The Architect Says
  2. S28 E02 · Jeff Koons: Diary of a Seducer
  3. S28 E03 · Beware of Mr Baker
  4. S28 E04 · Toni Morrison Remembers
  5. S28 E05 · Richard Flanagan: Life After Death
Season 29 · 7 episodes
  1. S29 E01 · Shylock's Ghost
  2. S29 E02 · Antony Gormley: Being Human
  3. S29 E03 · My Curious Documentary
  4. S29 E04 · The Last Impresario
  5. S29 E05 · The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson
  6. S29 E06 · David Chipperfield: A Place to Be
  7. S29 E07 · Carlos Acosta: Cuba Calls
Season 30 · 4 episodes
  1. S30 E01 · One Night in 2012 - An Imagine Special
  2. S30 E02 · Danger! Cornelia Parker
  3. S30 E03 · Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself
  4. S30 E04 · Sir Roderick Stewart: Can't Stop Me Now
Season 31 · 9 episodes
  1. S31 E01 · The Seven Killings of Marlon James
  2. S31 E02 · The Triumph and Laments of William Kentridge
  3. S31 E03 · Serial Killers - The Women Who Write Crime Fiction
  4. S31 E04 · The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan
  5. S31 E05 · Listen to Me Marlon
  6. S31 E06 · She Spoke the Unspeakable
  7. S31 E07 · Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
  8. S31 E08 · Alice Neel: Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde
  9. S31 E09 · Chris Ofili: The Caged Bird's Song
Season 32 · 4 episodes
  1. S32 E01 · Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
  2. S32 E02 · Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned!
  3. S32 E03 · Alma Deutscher: Finding Cinderella
  4. S32 E04 · Cameron Mackintosh: The Musical Man
Season 33 · 7 episodes
  1. S33 E01 · Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room
  2. S33 E02 · Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
  3. S33 E03 · Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons
  4. S33 E04 · Andrew Lloyd Webber: Memories
  5. S33 E05 · Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words
  6. S33 E06 · Habaneros: You Say You Want a Revolution? Part One
  7. S33 E07 · Habaneros: You Say You Want a Revolution? Part Two
Season 34 · 9 episodes
  1. S34 E01 · Rupert Everett: Born to be Wilde
  2. S34 E02 · Orhan Pamuk: A Strange Mind
  3. S34 E03 · Rose Wylie: This Rose is Blooming
  4. S34 E04 · Tacita Dean: Looking to See
  5. S34 E05 · Hockney, the Queen and the Royal Peculiar
  6. S34 E06 · George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?
  7. S34 E07 · Tracey Emin: Where Do You Draw The Line?
  8. S34 E08 · Becoming Cary Grant
  9. S34 E09 · Andrea Levy: Her Island Story
Season 35 · 7 episodes
  1. S35 E01 · James Graham: In the Room Where It Happens
  2. S35 E02 · Jo Brand: No Holds Barred
  3. S35 E03 · Bill Viola: The Road to St Paul's
  4. S35 E04 · Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless
  5. S35 E05 · Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is
  6. S35 E06 · Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device
  7. S35 E07 · EastSide Story
Season 36 · 6 episodes
  1. S36 E01 · Lenny Henry: Young, Gifted and Black
  2. S36 E02 · This House Is Full of Music
  3. S36 E03 · Lemn Sissay: The Memory of Me
  4. S36 E04 · Kate Prince: Every Move She Makes
  5. S36 E05 · My Name Is Kwame
  6. S36 E06 · Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling
Season 37 · 4 episodes
  1. S37 E01 · We'll Be Back?
  2. S37 E02 · Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting
  3. S37 E03 · Bernardine Evaristo: Never Give Up
  4. S37 E04 · Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life
Season 38 · 8 episodes
  1. S38 E01 · Marian Keyes: My (not so) Perfect Life
  2. S38 E02 · Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
  3. S38 E03 · Wayne McGregor: Dancing on the Edge
  4. S38 E04 · Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
  5. S38 E05 · Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
  6. S38 E06 · Malorie Blackman: What If?
  7. S38 E07 · Sonia Boyce: Finding Her Voice
  8. S38 E08 · Douglas Stuart: Love, Hope and Grit
Season 39 · 5 episodes
  1. S39 E01 · Stephen Frears: Director for Hire
  2. S39 E02 · The Factory: Made in Manchester
  3. S39 E03 · Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
  4. S39 E04 · French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
  5. S39 E05 · Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
Season 40 · 1 episodes
  1. S40 E01 · The Academy of Armando

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