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 49)
This House is Full of Music (Episode 1)
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 2)
Air date: 2020-07-23
Runtime: 66 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 3)
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 4)
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 5)
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.
Lenny Henry: Young, Gifted and Black (Episode 6)
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.
