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 40)

We'll Be Back? (Episode 1)
Air date: 2021-02-09
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Alan Yentob explores the huge ongoing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the UK's pioneering and world-renowned performing arts industry.

Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting (Episode 2)
Air date: 2021-03-28
Runtime: 76 min
Overview: A revealing profile of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, as he publishes his much-anticipated new book, Klara and the Sun.

Bernardine Evaristo: Never Give Up (Episode 3)
Air date: 2021-09-02
Runtime: 69 min
Overview: Alan Yentob explores the remarkable life and work of the trailblazing Anglo-Nigerian writer Bernardine Evaristo, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel Girl, Woman, Other.

Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life (Episode 4)
Air date: 2021-09-09
Runtime: 89 min
Overview: Playwright Tom Stoppard tells Alan Yentob the extraordinary story of his life and his latest play, Leopoldstadt, in which he faces up to the pain and loss in his past.

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TO BE DELETED (Episode 6)
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TO BE DELETED (Episode 7)
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