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 37)
Lenny Henry: Young, Gifted and Black (Episode 1)
Air date: 2020-01-02
Runtime: 74 min
Overview: Alan Yentob meets Lenny Henry as he publishes a first volume of autobiography, charting his early years in show business.
This House Is Full of Music (Episode 2)
Air date: 2020-07-12
Runtime: 59 min
Overview: Remote cameras capture a lockdown concert performed by the Kanneh-Mason family from their home in Nottingham, with interviews with the seven musically gifted siblings.
Lemn Sissay: The Memory of Me (Episode 3)
Air date: 2020-07-23
Runtime: 90 min
Overview: Following the publication of his new memoir My Name Is Why, writer Lemn Sissay tells Alan Yentob what it was like to grow up as the only black child in a sleepy market town outside Wigan in the 1970s.
Kate Prince: Every Move She Makes (Episode 4)
Air date: 2020-07-30
Runtime: 65 min
Overview: Alan Yentob meets choreographer and director Kate Prince as her ZooNation dance company embarks on a new West End production, Message in a Bottle.
My Name Is Kwame (Episode 5)
Air date: 2020-08-06
Runtime: 61 min
Overview: As the Young Vic celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, Alan Yentob meets its current artistic director, playwright and actor, Kwame Kwei-Armah, to discuss his life and career.
Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling (Episode 6)
Air date: 2020-10-11
Runtime: 59 min
Overview: Performance artist Marina Abramovic invites Alan Yentob into her home, opens her archive, travels to her birthplace in Belgrade and talks about turning her life into art.
