Alan Yentob
imagine... (2003)
2018
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.
Released June 10, 2003
Episode 50 min
14+
Genres: Biography, Documentary, History, News
Keywords: imdb.art, imdb.architecture, imdb.architect
Production Companies: BBC, BBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S35E1 - Rupert Everett: Born to be Wilde
The story of Rupert Everett's ten-year quest to write, direct and star in his own film about the tragic last years of his hero Oscar Wilde.
May 20, 2018, midnight
S35E2 - Orhan Pamuk: A Strange Mind
Turkey's best-known writer, the Nobel Prize-winning Orhan Pamuk, glories in his city of Istanbul, showing Alan Yentob the places which have inspired his work.
May 27, 2018, midnight
S35E3 - Rose Wylie: This Rose Is Blooming
Alan Yentob meets Rose Wylie and delves into her curious and colourful world to discover how her memories and experiences have helped mould the artist that she is today.
July 22, 2018, midnight
S35E4 - Tacita Dean: Looking to See
Alan Yentob joins Tacita Dean in her studio in Berlin to discover how the city has infused her work, and visits her in LA where she is completing a film inspired by her sister.
July 29, 2018, midnight
S35E5 - Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar
David Hockney undertakes a commission to design and install a stained-glass window in Westminster Abbey to commemorate the sixty-fifth year of Queen Elizabeth II's reign.
Oct. 9, 2018, midnight
S35E6 - George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?
The programme tracks the creation of celebrated composer Sir George Benjamin's latest opera Lessons in Love and Violence, which premiered at the Royal Opera House this year.
Oct. 16, 2018, midnight
S35E7 - Tracey Emin: Where Do You Draw the Line?
Artist Tracey Emin talks to Alan Yentob about her life, from her troubled early years in Margate to a series of breakthroughs in the 1990s. Show more
Oct. 23, 2018, midnight
S35E8 - Becoming Cary Grant
A revealing insight into the life of Hollywood icon Cary Grant, featuring excerpts from his unpublished autobiography and newly discovered footage shot by Grant himself.
Oct. 30, 2018, midnight
S35E9 - Andrea Levy: Her Island Story
Andrea Levy's novel Small Island about the Windrush generation captured imaginations. imagine... finds out if the new adaptation of her book The Long Song follows suit.
Dec. 19, 2018, midnight
Network: BBC One
Episode Runtime: 50 min.
Season Runtime: 50 min.
Released: June 10, 2003
Last Air Date: April 16, 2024, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR / 14+
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