imagine… (2003)

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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Seasons

Season 1

Summer 2003

Season 2

Autumn 2003

Season 3

Summer 2004

Season 4

Winter 2004

Season 5

A Short History of Tall Buildings

Season 6

Summer 2005

Season 7

Winter 2005

Season 8

Winter 2006

Season 9

Autumn 2006

Season 10

Autumn 2006

Season 11

Spring 2007

Season 12

Autumn 2007

Season 13

Summer 2008

Season 14

Autumn 2008

Season 15

Summer 2009

Season 16

Winter 2009

Season 17

Spring 2010

Season 18

Summer 2010

Season 19

Autumn 2010

Season 20

Summer 2011

Season 21

Winter 2011

Season 22

Summer 2012

Season 23

Winter 2012

Season 24

Spring 2013

Season 25

Winter 2013

Season 26

Summer 2014

Season 27

Winter 2014

Season 28

Summer 2015

Season 29

Autumn 2015

Season 30

Summer 2016

Season 31

Autumn 2016

Season 32

Winter 2017

Season 33

Summer 2017

Season 34

Winter 2017/18

Season 35

2018

Season 36

2019

Season 37

2020

Season 40

2021

Season 41

2022

Season 42

2023/24

Season 43

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Season 44

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Season 45

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Season 46

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Season 47

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Season 48

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Season 49

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Season 50

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Season 52

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Season 53

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Season 54

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Episodes season 0

  • 0x1

    To be deleted - not a special

  • 0x2

    The plinth, the model, the artist and his sculpture

  • 0x3

    The beatles in love

  • 0x4

    Damon and jamie's excellent adventure

  • 0x5

    Vincent van gogh: painted with words

  • 0x6

    Yes we can! the lost art of oratory

  • 0x7

    Stones in exile

  • 0x8

    U2: from the sky down

  • 0x9

    To be deleted - not a special

  • 0x10

    Freddie mercury: the great pretender

  • 0x11

    Beyoncé: life is but a dream

  • 0x12

    David bowie - cracked actor

  • 0x14

    Alan yentob interviews robert b weide

  • 0x15

    The smoking diaries update

  • 0x16

    When alan yentob met jenny saville

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    The saatchi phenomenon

  • 1x2

    Barbara hepworth: shapes out of feelings

  • 1x3

    The hip hop generation

  • 1x4

    Stella's story

  • 1x5

    Carlos acosta: the reluctant ballet dancer

  • 1x6

    The potrait of omai

  • 1x7

    Sir john mortimer: owning up at 80

Episodes season 2

  • 2x1

    The voice of bryn terfel

  • 2x2

    A very funny business

  • 2x3

    Entertaining mr soane

  • 2x4

    The world according to parr

  • 2x5

    From pencils to pixels

  • 2x6

    An a-z of the oed

Episodes season 3

  • 3x1

    The mysterious mr hopper

  • 3x2

    Sitting for lucian freud

  • 3x3

    Saint john coltrane

  • 3x4

    Dirty but clean pierre

  • 3x5

    Unsuitable for children?

  • 3x6

    The smoking diaries

  • 3x101

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Episodes season 4

  • 4x1

    Arthur miller - finishing the picture

  • 4x2

    Beautiful dreamer: brian wilson’s smile

  • 4x3

    Bruce nauman: the godfather of modem art

  • 4x4

    Brando

  • 4x5

    Tony pappano - a year at the opera

  • 4x101

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Episodes season 5

  • 5x1

    A short history of tall buildings - episode 1

  • 5x2

    A short history of tall buildings - episode 2

  • 5x3

    A short history of tall buildings - episode 3

Episodes season 6

  • 6x1

    Fantastic mr dahl

  • 6x2

    Frida kahlo

  • 6x3

    Being a concert pianist

  • 6x4

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Episodes season 7

  • 7x1

    Elgar and the missing concerto

  • 7x2

    Amos oz: the conscience of israel

  • 7x3

    Chuck close, close up

  • 7x4

    Rhythm is it!

  • 7x5

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Episodes season 8

  • 8x1

    Sweet home new orleans

  • 8x2

    Warhol: denied

  • 8x3

    A funny thing happened on the way to the studio

  • 8x4

    Sitting comfortably

Episodes season 9

  • 9x1

    Being hamlet

  • 9x2

    The artist formerly known as cat stevens

  • 9x3

    The ingenious thomas heatherwick

  • 9x4

    A picture of the painter howard hodgkin

  • 9x5

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Episodes season 10

  • 10x1

    Peter pan, a hard act to follow

  • 10x2

    Velazquez, the painter's painter

  • 10x3

    A play for today

  • 10x4

    The movie brats, take two

  • 10x5

    Who cares about art?

  • 10x7

    Being a diva

  • 10x8

    Www.herecomeseverybody.co.uk

  • 10x9

    And then there was television

Episodes season 11

  • 11x1

    Gilbert and george: no surrender

  • 11x2

    Stealing klimt

  • 11x3

    Scott walker

  • 11x4

    It's the surreal thing

  • 11x5

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Episodes season 12

  • 12x1

    Henry perkins: bolshoi boy

  • 12x2

    Bollywood's big b

  • 12x3

    Helvetica

  • 12x4

    Louise bourgeois: spiderwoman

  • 12x5

    How to get on in the art world

  • 12x6

    The secret of life

  • 12x7

    Richard rogers: inside out

  • 12x8

    Marc newson: urban spaceman

Episodes season 13

  • 13x1

    Doris lessing - the reluctant heroine

  • 13x2

    Oliver sacks: tales of music and the brain

  • 13x3

    Annie leibovitz, life through a lens

  • 13x4

    A trip to asia: on the road with the berlin philharmonic

  • 13x5

    A wild sheep chase: in search of haruki murakami

  • 13x6

    Werner herzog: beyond reason

  • 13x7

    Love, loss and anthony minghella

  • 13x102

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Episodes season 14

  • 14x1

    The story of the guitar: episode 1: in the beginning

  • 14x2

    The story of the guitar: episode 2: out of the frying pan

  • 14x3

    Dangerous liaison: when akram met juliette

  • 14x4

    The story of the guitar: episode 3: this time it's personal

  • 14x5

    A love story

  • 14x6

    Jay-z: he came, he saw, he conquered

  • 14x7

    Let there be light

  • 14x8

    How an orchestra saved venezuela's children

  • 14x9

    Richard serra: man of steel

  • 14x10

    Heavy metal in baghdad

Episodes season 15

  • 15x1

    Save the last dance for me

  • 15x2

    David hockney - a bigger picture

  • 15x3

    Rufus wainwright, prima donna

  • 15x4

    The colourful mr eggleston

  • 15x5

    Art in troubled times: a new deal for art

  • 15x6

    Art in troubled times: part ii - the home front

  • 15x101

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Episodes season 16

  • 16x1

    The year of anish kapoor

  • 16x2

    Dame shirley bassey: the girl from tiger bay

  • 16x3

    Own art

  • 16x4

    Joan baez

  • 16x5

    Plácido domingo

  • 16x6

    Scrabble: a night on the tiles

  • 16x7

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Episodes season 17

  • 17x1

    Vincent van gogh: painted with words

  • 17x2

    The stones in exile

  • 17x3

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Episodes season 18

  • 18x1

    Nigel kennedy's polish adventure

  • 18x2

    Art is child's play

  • 18x3

    Diana athill – growing old disgracefully

  • 18x4

    Tom jones – what good am i?

  • 18x5

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Episodes season 19

  • 19x1

    Ai weiwei - without fear or favour

  • 19x2

    Smash his camera

  • 19x3

    The weird adventures of eadweard muybridge

  • 19x4

    Bruce springsteen: darkness revisited

  • 19x5

    Ben-hur

  • 19x6

    Ray davies - imaginary man

Episodes season 20

  • 20x1

    The trouble with tolstoy: part 1: at war with himself

  • 20x2

    The trouble with tolstoy: part 2: in search of happiness

  • 20x3

    The man who forgot how to read and other stories

  • 20x4

    The pharaohs' museum on liberation square

  • 20x5

    Lennon: the new york years

  • 20x6

    Harry nilsson: the missing beatle

  • 20x7

    Iraq in venice

Episodes season 21

  • 21x1

    Grayson perry and the tomb of the unknown craftsman

  • 21x2

    Simon and garfunkel - the harmony game

  • 21x3

    Alan ayckbourn - greetings from scarborough

  • 21x4

    Vidal sassoon - a cut above

  • 21x5

    The lost music of rajasthan

  • 21x6

    Books - the last chapter?

  • 21x7

    The art of stand-up - part one

  • 21x8

    The art of stand-up - part two

  • 21x9

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  • 21x10

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  • 21x11

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  • 21x12

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Episodes season 22

  • 22x1

    Theatre of war

  • 22x2

    Paul simon's graceland - under african skies

  • 22x3

    Just one falsetto

  • 22x4

    Glasgow: the grit and the glamour

  • 22x5

    Dancing with titian

  • 22x6

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Episodes season 23

  • 23x1

    The fatwa - salman's story

  • 23x2

    Ian rankin and the case of the disappearing detective

  • 23x3

    Do or die: lang lang's story

  • 23x4

    Lang lang

  • 23x5

    The many lives of william klein

  • 23x6

    How music makes us feel

  • 23x7

    Jeanette winterson: my monster and me

  • 23x8

    A beauty is born: matthew bourne's sleeping beauty

Episodes season 24

  • 24x1

    Beyoncé: life is but a dream

  • 24x2

    David bowie: cracked actor

  • 24x3

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Episodes season 25

  • 25x1

    Jimi hendrix: hear my train a comin'

  • 25x2

    Edmund de waal: make pots or die

  • 25x3

    Broadway musicals: a jewish legacy

  • 25x4

    Turning the art world inside out

  • 25x5

    Hitler, the tiger and me

  • 25x6

    Who's afraid of machiavelli?

Episodes season 26

  • 26x1

    Rio 50 degrees: carry on carioca

  • 26x2

    Philip roth unleashed part 1

  • 26x3

    Philip roth unleashed part 2

  • 26x4

    Monty python: and now for something rather similar

Episodes season 27

  • 27x1

    The art that hitler hated

  • 27x2

    The art that hitler hated: the sins of the fathers

  • 27x3

    Bette midler: the divine miss m

  • 27x4

    Bette midler: the showgirl must go on

  • 27x5

    Anselm kiefer: remembering the future

  • 27x6

    The one and only mike leigh

  • 27x7

    Colm toibin: his mother's son

Episodes season 28

  • 28x1

    Frank gehry: the architect says "why can't i?"

  • 28x2

    Jeff koons: diary of a seducer

  • 28x3

    Beware of mr baker

  • 28x4

    Toni morrison remembers

  • 28x5

    Richard flanagan: life after death

Episodes season 29

  • 29x1

    Shylock's ghost

  • 29x2

    Antony gormley: being human

  • 29x3

    My curious documentary

  • 29x4

    The last impresario

  • 29x5

    The ecstasy of wilko johnson

  • 29x6

    David chipperfield: a place to be

  • 29x7

    Carlos acosta: cuba calls

Episodes season 30

  • 30x1

    One night in 2012

  • 30x2

    Danger! cornelia parker

  • 30x3

    Georgia o'keeffe: by myself

  • 30x4

    Sir roderick stewart: can't stop me now

Episodes season 31

  • 31x1

    The seven killings of marlon james

  • 31x2

    The triumphs and laments of william kentridge

  • 31x3

    Serial killers - the women who write crime fiction

  • 31x4

    The art world's prankster: maurizio cattelan

  • 31x5

    Listen to me marlon

Episodes season 32

  • 32x1

    She spoke the unspeakable

  • 32x2

    Maya angelou: and still i rise

  • 32x3

    Alice neel: dr jekyll and mrs hyde

  • 32x4

    Chris ofili - the caged bird's song

Episodes season 33

  • 33x1

    Mapplethorpe: look at the pictures

  • 33x2

    Margaret atwood: you have been warned!

  • 33x3

    Alma deutscher: finding cinderella

  • 33x4

    Cameron mackintosh: the musical man

Episodes season 34

  • 34x1

    Rachel whiteread: ghost in the room

  • 34x2

    Mel brooks: unwrapped

  • 34x4

    Philip pullman: angels and daemons

  • 34x5

    Ingrid bergman in her own words

  • 34x6

    Andrew lloyd webber: memories

  • 34x7

    Habaneros: you say you want a revolution? part one

  • 34x8

    Habaneros: you say you want a revolution? part two

Episodes season 35

  • 35x1

    Rupert everett: born to be wilde

  • 35x2

    Orhan pamuk: a strange mind

  • 35x3

    Rose wylie: this rose is blooming

  • 35x4

    Tacita dean: looking to see

  • 35x5

    Hockney, the queen and the royal peculiar

  • 35x6

    George benjamin: what do you want to do when you grow up?

  • 35x7

    Tracey emin: where do you draw the line?

  • 35x8

    Becoming cary grant

  • 35x9

    Andrea levy: her island story

Episodes season 36

  • 36x1

    James graham: in the room where it happens

  • 36x2

    Jo brand: no holds barred

  • 36x3

    Bill viola: the road to st paul's

  • 36x4

    Edna o'brien: fearful... and fearless

  • 36x5

    Faith ringgold: tell it like it is

  • 36x6

    Olafur eliasson: miracles of rare device

  • 36x7

    Eastside story

Episodes season 37

  • 37x1

    Lenny henry: young, gifted and black

  • 37x2

    This house is full of music

  • 37x3

    Lemn sissay: the memory of me

  • 37x4

    Kate prince: every move she makes

  • 37x5

    My name is kwame

  • 37x6

    Marina abramovic: the ugly duckling

Episodes season 40

  • 40x1

    We'll be back?

  • 40x2

    Kazuo ishiguro: remembering and forgetting

  • 40x3

    Bernardine evaristo: never give up

  • 40x4

    Tom stoppard: a charmed life

  • 40x5

    To be deleted

  • 40x6

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  • 40x7

    To be deleted

Episodes season 41

  • 41x1

    Marian keyes: my (not so) perfect life

  • 41x2

    Labi siffre: this is my song

  • 41x3

    Wayne mcgregor: dancing on the edge

  • 41x4

    Miriam margolyes: up for grabs

  • 41x5

    Jacob collier: in the room where it happens

  • 41x6

    Malorie blackman: what if?

  • 41x7

    Sonia boyce: finding her voice

  • 41x8

    Douglas stuart: love, hope and grit

Episodes season 42

  • 42x1

    Stephen frears: director for hire

  • 42x2

    The factory: made in manchester

  • 42x3

    French & saunders: pointed, bitchy, bitter

  • 42x4

    Pet shop boys: then and now

Episodes season 43

  • 43x1

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Episodes season 44

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Episodes season 45

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Episodes season 46

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  • 46x6

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  • 46x7

    Habaneros: you say you want a revolution? (1)

  • 46x8

    Habaneros: you say you want a revolution? (2)

Episodes season 47

  • 47x1

    Rupert everett: born to be wilde

  • 47x2

    Orhan pamuk: a strange mind

  • 47x3

    Rose wylie: this rose is blooming

  • 47x4

    Tacita dean: looking to see

  • 47x5

    Hockney, the queen and the royal peculiar

  • 47x6

    George benjamin: what do you want to do when you grow up?

  • 47x7

    Tracey emin: where do you draw the line?

  • 47x8

    Becoming cary grant

  • 47x9

    Andrea levy: her island story

Episodes season 48

  • 48x1

    James graham: in the room where it happens

  • 48x2

    Jo brand: no holds barred

  • 48x3

    Bill viola: the road to st paul’s

  • 48x4

    Edna o'brien: fearful… and fearless

  • 48x5

    Faith ringgold: tell it like it is

  • 48x6

    Olafur eliasson: miracles of rare device

  • 48x7

    Eastside story

Episodes season 49

  • 49x1

    This house is full of music

  • 49x2

    Lemn sissay: the memory of me

  • 49x3

    Kate prince: every move she makes

  • 49x4

    My name is kwame

  • 49x5

    Marina abramovic: the ugly duckling

  • 49x6

    Lenny henry: young, gifted and black

Episodes season 50

  • 50x1

    We'll be back?

  • 50x2

    Kazuo ishiguro: remembering and forgetting

  • 50x3

    Bernardine evaristo: never give up

  • 50x4

    Tom stoppard: a charmed life

Episodes season 52

  • 52x1

    Marian keyes: my (not so) perfect life

  • 52x2

    Labi siffre: this is my song

  • 52x3

    Wayne mcgregor: dancing on the edge

  • 52x4

    Miriam margolyes: up for grabs

  • 52x5

    Jacob collier: the room where it happens

  • 52x6

    Malorie blackman: what if?

  • 52x7

    Sonia boyce: finding her voice

  • 52x8

    Douglas stuart: love, hope and grit

Episodes season 53

  • 53x1

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Episodes season 54

  • 54x1

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