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.
imagine… (Season 35)
Rupert Everett: Born to be Wilde (Episode 1)
Air date: 2018-05-20
Runtime: 66 min
Overview: 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.
Orhan Pamuk: A Strange Mind (Episode 2)
Air date: 2018-05-27
Runtime: 68 min
Overview: 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.
Rose Wylie: This Rose Is Blooming (Episode 3)
Air date: 2018-07-22
Runtime: 68 min
Overview: 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.
Tacita Dean: Looking to See (Episode 4)
Air date: 2018-07-29
Runtime: 70 min
Overview: 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.
Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar (Episode 5)
Air date: 2018-10-09
Runtime: 63 min
Overview: 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.
George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up? (Episode 6)
Air date: 2018-10-16
Runtime: 83 min
Overview: 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.
Tracey Emin: Where Do You Draw the Line? (Episode 7)
Air date: 2018-10-23
Runtime: 76 min
Overview: 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
Becoming Cary Grant (Episode 8)
Air date: 2018-10-30
Runtime: 85 min
Overview: A revealing insight into the life of Hollywood icon Cary Grant, featuring excerpts from his unpublished autobiography and newly discovered footage shot by Grant himself.
Andrea Levy: Her Island Story (Episode 9)
Air date: 2018-12-19
Runtime: 71 min
Overview: 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.
