2018

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Episode 166 min2018-05-20

Rupert Everett: Born to be Wilde

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 268 min2018-05-27

Orhan Pamuk: A Strange Mind

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 368 min2018-07-22

Rose Wylie: This Rose Is Blooming

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 470 min2018-07-29

Tacita Dean: Looking to See

Alan 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.

Episode 563 min2018-10-09

Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar

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 683 min2018-10-16

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

The programme tracks 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.

Episode 776 min2018-10-23

Tracey Emin: Where Do You Draw the Line?

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. Show more

Episode 885 min2018-10-30

Becoming Cary Grant

A revealing insight into the life of Hollywood icon Cary Grant, featuring excerpts from his unpublished autobiography and newly discovered footage shot by Grant himself.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 971 min2018-12-19

Andrea Levy: Her Island Story

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.

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Alan Yentob

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