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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Episode 1 - Rupert Everett: Born to be Wilde
Release Date: 2018-05-20The 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.
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Episode 2 - Orhan Pamuk: A Strange Mind
Release Date: 2018-05-27Turkey'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.
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Episode 3 - Rose Wylie: This Rose Is Blooming
Release Date: 2018-07-22Alan 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.
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Episode 4 - Tacita Dean: Looking to See
Release Date: 2018-07-29Alan 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.
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Episode 5 - Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar
Release Date: 2018-10-09David 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.
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Episode 6 - George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?
Release Date: 2018-10-16Tracking 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.
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Episode 7 - Tracey Emin: Where Do You Draw the Line?
Release Date: 2018-10-21Artist Tracey Emin talks to Alan Yentob about her life, from her troubled early years in Margate to a series of breakthroughs in the 1990s.
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Episode 8 - Becoming Cary Grant
Release Date: 2018-10-30A revealing insight into the life of Hollywood icon Cary Grant, featuring excerpts from his unpublished autobiography and newly discovered footage shot by Grant himself.
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Episode 9 - Andrea Levy: Her Island Story
Release Date: 2018-11-04Andrea 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.