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18 Episodes 2018 - 2018
Episode 1
Sun, May 20, 2018 50 mins
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.
Episode 2
Sun, May 27, 2018 50 mins
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.
Episode 3
Sun, Jul 22, 2018 50 mins
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.
Episode 4
Sun, Jul 29, 2018 50 mins
Tacita Dean is celebrated for her works on analogue film.
Episode 5
Tue, Oct 9, 2018 50 mins
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.
Episode 6
Tue, Oct 16, 2018 50 mins
Following the creation of composer Sir George Benjamin's latest opera and his journey composing songs.
Episode 7
Tue, Oct 23, 2018 50 mins
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.
Episode 8
Tue, Oct 30, 2018 50 mins
A revealing insight into the life of Hollywood icon Cary Grant, featuring excerpts from his unpublished autobiography and newly discovered footage shot by Grant himself.
Episode 9
Wed, Dec 19, 2018 50 mins
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.
Episode 10
Sat, Jan 5, 2019 50 mins
Alan Yentob presents a portrait of Israel's most celebrated writer and political commentator, Amos Oz, whose childhood memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness gives an eyewitness account of the birth of Israel. Yentob takes Oz back to the settings of the childhood in Israel and reveals a fascinating portrait of the early years of Israel, the tragic story of Oz's family and his widely respected views on the conflict with Palestine.
Episode 11
Mon, Jan 28, 2019 50 mins
Alan Yentob looks into the life of comedian Jo Brand. Brand burst on to the nation's largely male stand-up comedy scene in the 1980s. In doing so, she revolutionised what women could be - and say - on stage. From her working-class roots in south London, through her teenage tearaway years in Hastings to the decade that she spent as a psychiatric nurse, Jo's journey into comedy has not been an easy one.
Episode 12
Mon, Feb 4, 2019 50 mins
Charting the career of Bill Viola over 12 years, following him as he creates a permanent video installation for St Paul's Cathedral.
Episode 13
Wed, Feb 20, 2019 50 mins
Alan Yentob follows celebrated young British playwright James Graham, whose award-winning works take audiences to the very heart of key political events.
Episode 14
Wed, Feb 27, 2019 50 mins
Alan Yentob looks into the life of comedian Jo Brand, marking a diverse career which began in 1980s stand-up comedy and has moved through writing, performing and presenting.
Episode 15
Sun, Jul 7, 2019 50 mins
Alan Yentob meets Irish novelist Edna O'Brien to discuss sex, books and a lifetime of defiance.
Episode 16
Sun, Jul 14, 2019 50 mins
Alan Yentob interviews and feature the works of the artist, author, and activist Faith Ringgold. The Harlem-born champion of civil rights and gender equality is known for her masterpieces that reflect the struggles of African Americans in the '60s and '70s.
Episode 17
Sun, Jul 28, 2019 50 mins
Episode 18
Mon, Sep 30, 2019 50 mins
Following a ground-breaking arts intervention programme designed to change the course of the lives of young people from two east London estates.