Imagine Season 35 Episodes

Episode 1

Lenny Henry: Young, Gifted and Black

74 mins

Alan Yentob follows the entertainer as he publishes a first volume of autobiography, looking back at his rise to fame at 16, his varied television roles and his more recent roles as a serious actor.

Episode 2

Lemn Sissay: The Memory of Me

60 mins

Episode 3

This House is Full of Music

60 mins

Episode 4

My Name is Kwame

60 mins

Kwame Kwei-Armah is one of British theatre's most exciting creative leaders. Currently the artistic director of London's Young Vic, he has had a successful career as an actor, writer and director on both sides of the Atlantic. He came to fame playing paramedic Finlay Newton in the BBC drama Casualty, and his groundbreaking play Elmina's Kitchen was one of the first by a black British writer to be staged at the National Theatre and in the West End. In his first two years at the Young Vic, he has programmed a run of sell-out shows, including Death of a Salesman, Twelfth Night, Tree and the controversial Pulitzer Prize-winning Fairview. As the Young Vic celebrates its 50th anniversary, Alan Yentob hears how a young Southall boy called Ian Roberts became the artist Kwame Kwei-Armah.

Episode 5

Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling

60 mins

Alan Yentob talks to performance artist Marina Abramovic about turning her life into art.