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Jun 11, 2003 (en) Documentary, News [50] Min
  • First Air Date
    Jun 11, 2003
  • Production
    BBC, BBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions
  • Rotten tomato
    56%
  • Original title
    imagine…
  • Release
    Jun 11, 2003
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Overview

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.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Producer

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  1. Alan Yentob

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Full Casts & Crew

Casts : 1 / Crews : 0

Specials ( 2004-11-24)

Arthur Miller - Finishing the Picture

Episode: 1

The Plinth, the Model, the Artist and his Sculpture

Episode: 2

The Beatles in Love

Episode: 3

Damon and Jamie's Excellent Adventure

Episode: 4

Vincent Van Gogh: Painted with Words

Episode: 5

Yes We Can! The Lost Art Of Oratory

Episode: 6

Stones in Exile

Episode: 7

U2: From the Sky Down

Episode: 8

The Fatwa - Salman's Story

Episode: 9

Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender

Episode: 10

Beyoncé: Life is But a Dream

Episode: 11

David Bowie - Cracked Actor

Episode: 12

Alan Yentob interviews Robert B Weide

Episode: 14

The Smoking Diaries Update

Episode: 15

Summer 2003 ( 2003-06-11)

The Saatchi Phenomenon

Episode: 1

Barbara Hepworth: Shapes Out of Feelings

Episode: 2

The Hip Hop Generation

Episode: 3

Stella's Story

Episode: 4

Carlos Acosta: The Reluctant Ballet Dancer

Episode: 5

The Potrait of Omai

Episode: 6

Sir John Mortimer: Owning Up at 80

Episode: 7

Autumn 2003 ( 2003-11-12)

The Voice of Bryn Terfel

Episode: 1

A Very Funny Business

Episode: 2

Entertaining Mr Soane

Episode: 3

The World According to Parr

Episode: 4

From Pencils to Pixels

Episode: 5

An A-Z of the OED

Episode: 6

Summer 2004 ( 2004-06-02)

The Mysterious Mr Hopper

Episode: 1

Sitting for Lucian Freud

Episode: 2

Saint John Coltrane

Episode: 3

Dirty But Clean Pierre

Episode: 4

Unsuitable for Children?

Episode: 5

The Smoking Diaries

Episode: 6

Episode 11

Episode: 101

Episode 102

Episode: 102

Episode 103

Episode: 103

Autumn 2004 ( 2004-11-24)

Arthur Miller - Finishing the Picture

Episode: 1

Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson’s Smile

Episode: 2

Bruce Nauman: the Godfather of Modem Art

Episode: 3

Brando

Episode: 4

Tony Pappano - a Year at the Opera

Episode: 5

A Short History of Tall Buildings - Episode 1

Episode: 101

A Short History of Tall Buildings - Episode 2

Episode: 102

A Short History of Tall Buildings - Episode 3

Episode: 103

Summer 2005 ( 2005-06-22)

Fantastic Mr Dahl

Episode: 1

Frida Kahlo

Episode: 2

Being a Concert Pianist

Episode: 3

Winter 2005 ( 2005-11-23)

Elgar and the Missing Concerto

Episode: 1

Amos Oz: The Conscience of Israel

Episode: 2

Chuck Close, Close Up

Episode: 3

Rhythm Is It!

Episode: 4

Sweet Home New Orleans

Episode: 5

Warhol: Denied

Episode: 6

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Studio

Episode: 7

Sitting Comfortably

Episode: 8

Spring 2006 ( 2006-05-23)

Being Hamlet

Episode: 1

The Artist Formerly Known as Cat Stevens

Episode: 2

The Ingenious Thomas Heatherwick

Episode: 3

A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin

Episode: 4

Autumn 2006 ( 2006-10-17)

Peter Pan, a Hard Act to Follow

Episode: 1

Velazquez, The Painter's Painter

Episode: 2

A Play for Today

Episode: 3

The Movie Brats, Take Two

Episode: 4

Who Cares About Art?

Episode: 5

Hans Holbein - International Man of Mystery

Episode: 6

Being a Diva

Episode: 7

www.herecomeseverybody.co.uk

Episode: 8

And Then There Was Television

Episode: 9

Spring 2007 ( 2007-05-08)

Gilbert And George: No Surrender

Episode: 1

Stealing Klimt

Episode: 2

Scott Walker

Episode: 3

It's The Surreal Thing

Episode: 4

Damon And Jamie's Excellent Adventure

Episode: 5

How to get on in the artworld

Episode: 7

The Secret of Life

Episode: 8

Autumn 2007 ( 2007-10-23)

Henry Perkins: Bolshoi Boy

Episode: 1

Bollywood's Big B

Episode: 2

Helvetica

Episode: 3

Louise Bourgeois: Spiderwoman

Episode: 4

How to Get on in the Art World

Episode: 5

Richard Rogers: Inside Out

Episode: 7

Richard Serra: Man of Steel

Episode: 10

Show 3

Episode: 13

Love, Loss and Anthony Minghella

Episode: 16

A Love Story

Episode: 17

Jay-Z: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered

Episode: 18

Let There Be Light

Episode: 19

The Story of the Guitar ( 2008-10-05)

The Story of the Guitar - In The Beginning

Episode: 1

The Story of the Guitar - Out of the Frying Pan

Episode: 2

The Story of the Guitar - This Time it's Personal

Episode: 3

Let There Be LIght

Episode: 4

Summer 2008 ( 2008-05-27)

Doris Lessing - The Reluctant Heroine

Episode: 1

Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain

Episode: 2

Annie Leibovitz, Life Through A Lens

Episode: 3

A Trip to Asia: on the Road with the Berlin Philharmonic

Episode: 4

A Wild Sheep Chase: in Search of Haruki Murakami

Episode: 5

Werner Herzog: Beyond Reason

Episode: 6

The Smoking Diaries Update

Episode: 101

Save the Last Dance for Me

Episode: 102

Rufus Wainwright, Prima Donna

Episode: 104

Art in Troubled Times: Part II – The Home Front

Episode: 107

Autumn 2008 ( 2008-10-14)

Dangerous Liaison: When Akram met Juliette

Episode: 1

A Love Story

Episode: 2

Jay-Z: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered

Episode: 3

Let There Be Light

Episode: 4

How an Orchestra Saved Venezuela's Children

Episode: 5

Richard Serra: Man of Steel

Episode: 6

Heavy Metal in Baghdad

Episode: 7

Summer 2009 ( 2009-06-23)

Save the Last Dance for Me

Episode: 1

David Hockney - A Bigger Picture

Episode: 2

Rufus Wainwright, Prima Donna

Episode: 3

The Colourful Mr Eggleston

Episode: 4

Art in Troubled Times: A New Deal for Art

Episode: 5

Art In Troubled Times: Part II - The Home Front

Episode: 6

The Stones in Exile

Episode: 101

Winter 2009 ( 2009-11-17)

The Year Of Anish Kapoor

Episode: 1

Dame Shirley Bassey: The Girl From Tiger Bay

Episode: 2

Own Art

Episode: 3

Joan Baez

Episode: 4

Plácido Domingo

Episode: 5

Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles

Episode: 6

The Trouble with Tolstoy - 1. At War with Himself

Episode: 7

The Trouble with Tolstoy - 2. In Search of Happiness

Episode: 8

Summer 2011 ( 2011-06-28)

The Man Who Forgot How to Read and Other Stories

Episode: 1

The Pharaohs' Museum on Liberation Square

Episode: 2

Lennon: The New York Years

Episode: 3

Harry Nilsson: The Missing Beatle

Episode: 4

Iraq in Venice

Episode: 5

U2: From the Sky Down

Episode: 6

Winter 2012 ( 2011-11-01)

Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman

Episode: 1

Simon and Garfunkel - The Harmony Game

Episode: 2

Alan Ayckbourn - Greetings from Scarborough

Episode: 3

Vidal Sassoon - A Cut Above

Episode: 4

The Lost Music of Rajasthan

Episode: 5

Books - The Last Chapter?

Episode: 6

The Art Of Stand-Up (Part One)

Episode: 7

The Art Of Stand-Up (Part Two)

Episode: 8

Summer 2012 ( 2012-06-26)

Theatre of War

Episode: 1

Paul Simon's Graceland - Under African Skies

Episode: 2

Just One Falsetto

Episode: 3

Glasgow: The Grit and the Glamour

Episode: 4

Dancing with Titian

Episode: 5

Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective

Episode: 6

Winter 2012 ( 2012-11-06)

Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective

Episode: 1

Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story

Episode: 2

Lang Lang

Episode: 3

The Many Lives of William Klein

Episode: 4

How Music Makes Us Feel

Episode: 5

Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me

Episode: 6

A Beauty is Born: Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty

Episode: 7

Summer 2013 & Winter 2013 ( 2013-06-25)

Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?

Episode: 1

McCullin

Episode: 2

Rod Stewart: Can't Stop Me Now

Episode: 3

Woody Allen: A Documentary - Part One

Episode: 4

Woody Allen: A Documentary - Part Two

Episode: 5

Zaha Hadid: Who Dares Wins

Episode: 6

Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin'

Episode: 7

Edmund de Waal: Make Pots or Die

Episode: 8

Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy

Episode: 9

Turning the Art World Inside Out

Episode: 10

Hitler, the Tiger and Me

Episode: 11

Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?

Episode: 12

Summer 2014 ( 2014-05-18)

Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca

Episode: 1

Philip Roth Unleashed Part 1

Episode: 2

Philip Roth Unleashed Part 2

Episode: 3

Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar

Episode: 4

To be deleted

Episode: 5

to be deleted

Episode: 6

Winter 2014 ( 2014-10-28)

The Art That Hitler Hated

Episode: 1

The Art That Hitler Hated: The Sins of the Fathers

Episode: 2

Bette Midler: The Divine Miss M

Episode: 3

Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future

Episode: 4

The One and Only Mike Leigh

Episode: 5

Colm Toibin: His Mother's Son

Episode: 6

Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On

Episode: 7

Autumn 2010 ( 2010-11-16)

Ai Weiwei - Without Fear or Favour

Episode: 1

Smash His Camera

Episode: 2

The Weird Adventures of Eadweard Muybridge

Episode: 3

Bruce Springsteen: Darkness Revisited

Episode: 4

Ben-Hur

Episode: 5

Ray Davies - Imaginary Man

Episode: 6

Season 31 ( 2018-03-19)

Andrew Lloyd Webber: Memories

Episode: 5

Summer 2015 ( 2015-06-23)

Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"

Episode: 1

Jeff Koons: Diary of a Seducer

Episode: 2

Beware of Mr Baker

Episode: 3

Toni Morrison Remembers

Episode: 4

Richard Flanagan: Life After Death

Episode: 5

Autumn 2015 ( 2015-10-27)

Shylock’s Ghost

Episode: 1

Antony Gormley: Being Human

Episode: 2

My Curious Documentary

Episode: 3

The Last Impresario

Episode: 4

The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson

Episode: 5

David Chipperfield: A Place to Be

Episode: 6

Carlos Acosta: Cuba Calls

Episode: 7

Summer 2016 ( 2016-07-17)

One Night in 2012

Episode: 1

DANGER! Cornelia Parker

Episode: 2

Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself

Episode: 3

Sir Roderick Stewart: Can't Stop Me Now

Episode: 4

Shorts (2016/17) ( 2016-11-23)

The Handmade Films of William Kentridge - Part 1

Episode: 1

The Handmade Films of William Kentridge - Part 2

Episode: 2

Autumn 2016 ( 2016-10-29)

The Seven Killings of Marlon James

Episode: 1

The Triumph and Laments of William Kentridge

Episode: 2

Serial Killers - The Women Who Write Crime Fiction

Episode: 3

The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan

Episode: 4

Listen to Me Marlon

Episode: 5

Winter 2017 ( 2017-02-21)

She Spoke the Unspeakable

Episode: 1

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

Episode: 2

Alice Neel: Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde

Episode: 3

Chris Ofili - The Caged Bird's Song

Episode: 4

Summer 2017 ( 2017-07-29)

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

Episode: 1

Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned!

Episode: 2

Alma Deutscher: Finding Cinderella

Episode: 3

Cameron Mackintosh: The Musical Man

Episode: 4

Winter 2017/18 ( 2017-12-02)

Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room

Episode: 1

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

Episode: 2

Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons

Episode: 4

Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words

Episode: 5

Andrew Lloyd Webber: Memories

Episode: 6

Habaneros: You Say You Want a Revolution? (1)

Episode: 7

Habaneros: You Say You Want a Revolution? (2)

Episode: 8

2018 ( 2018-05-20)

Rupert Everett: Born to be Wilde

Episode: 1

Orhan Pamuk: A Strange Mind

Episode: 2

Rose Wylie: This Rose Is Blooming

Episode: 3

Tacita Dean: Looking to See

Episode: 4

Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar

Episode: 5

George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?

Episode: 6

Tracey Emin: Where Do You Draw the Line?

Episode: 7

Becoming Cary Grant

Episode: 8

Andrea Levy: Her Island Story

Episode: 9

2019 ( 2019-01-21)

James Graham: In the Room Where It Happens

Episode: 1

Jo Brand: No Holds Barred

Episode: 2

Bill Viola: The Road to St Paul’s

Episode: 3

Edna O'Brien: Fearful… and Fearless

Episode: 4

Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is

Episode: 5

Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device

Episode: 6

EastSide Story

Episode: 7

2020 ( 2020-07-12)

This House is Full of Music

Episode: 1

Lemn Sissay: The Memory of Me

Episode: 2

Kate Prince: Every Move She Makes

Episode: 3

My Name Is Kwame

Episode: 4

Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling

Episode: 5

Lenny Henry: Young, Gifted and Black

Episode: 6

2021 ( 2021-02-09)

We'll Be Back?

Episode: 1

Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting

Episode: 2

Bernardine Evaristo: Never Give Up

Episode: 3

Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life

Episode: 4

2022 ( 2022-02-07)

Marian Keyes: My (not so) Perfect Life

Episode: 1

Labi Siffre: This Is My Song

Episode: 2

Wayne McGregor: Dancing on the Edge

Episode: 3

Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs

Episode: 4

Jacob Collier: The Room Where It Happens

Episode: 5

Malorie Blackman: What If?

Episode: 6

Sonia Boyce: Finding Her Voice

Episode: 7

Douglas Stuart: Love, Hope and Grit

Episode: 8

2023 ( 2023-03-20)

Stephen Frears: Director for Hire

Episode: 1

The Factory: Made in Manchester

Episode: 2

Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me

Episode: 3

French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter

Episode: 4

2024 ( 2024-04-16)

Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now

Episode: 1
Jun 11, 2003 (en)
Documentary, News
[50] Min
  • First Air Date Jun 11, 2003
  • Production
    BBC, BBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions
  • Rotten tomato 56%
Original Title imagine…
en

Overview

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.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Producer