Imagine... Season 13 Episodes

Episode 1

Doris Lessing - The Hostess and the Alien

Fri, May 23, 2008 50 mins

Episode 2

Annie Leibovitz - Life Through a Lens

Fri, Jun 6, 2008 50 mins

Alan Yentob explores the rapid rise of one of modern music's most mercurial talents, Rufus Wainwright.Wainwright talks candidly about his background, his family of musical luminaries - father Loudon Wainwright III, mother Kate McGarrigle and sister Martha Wainwright - his troubled personal history with drugs and the tensions that have informed his music.The film also follows his journey into the classical world as he creates his very first opera, Prima Donna.

Episode 3

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

Fri, Jun 13, 2008 50 mins

This compelling record of the Berlin Philharmonic during a concert tour of Asia proves as much an inner journey as an outer one, as musicans and their conductor Simon Rattle reflect on subjects such as the orchestra's organisation and traditions; its distinctive sound; life on the road; the demands of performance; and the effects of age on technique.

Episode 4

Werner Herzog: Beyond Reason

Fri, Jun 27, 2008 50 mins

Alan Yentob interviews German film director Werner Herzog, the uncompromising, often visionary director of more than 40 documentary and feature films including Rescue Dawn, Grizzly Man, Fitzcarraldo and Aguirre, Wrath of God. Herzog's back catalogue is littered with tales of casts, crews and studios tested to the extremes by his determination to capture the "real truth" on film.