Imagine (TV series)

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Imagine is a wide-ranging arts series first broadcast on BBC One in 2003, hosted and executive produced by Alan Yentob. Each series usually consists of 4 to 7 episodes, each on a different topic. Episodes have been directed by, among others, Geoff Wonfor, Lucy Blakstead, Roger Parsons and Zoë Silver.

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List of episodes

Series 1 (from 11 June 2003):

• "The Saatchi Phenomenon" - about businessman Charles Saatchi
• "Barbara Hepworth: Shapes Out of Feelings"
• "The Hip Hop Generation"
• "Stella McCartney: Stella's Story"
• "Carlos Acosta: The Reluctant Ballet Dancer"
• "The Portrait of Omai"
• "John Mortimer: Owning Up at 80"

Series 2 (from 12 November 2003):

• "The Voice of Bryn Terfel"
• "A Funny Business" - A look at British and American sitcoms
• "John Soane - Entertaining Mr Soane"
• "Martin Parr - The World According to Parr"
• "From Pencils to Pixels" - Celebrating the phenomena of the animated feature film
• "An A-Z of the OED"

Series 3 (from 2 June 2004):

• "Edward Hopper - The Mysterious Mr Hopper"
• "Sitting for Lucian Freud"
• "Saint John Coltrane"
• "Peter Finlay - Dirty But Clean Pierre"
• "Unsuitable for Children?" - Exploring modern children's fiction
• "The Smoking Diaries" - about playwright Simon Gray

Series 4 (from 24 November 2004):

• "Arthur Miller - Finishing the Picture"
• "Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson's Smile"
• "Bruce Nauman - The Godfather of Modern Art"
• "Marlon Brando"
• "Antonio Pappano - A Year at the Opera"

Series 5 (from 11 May 2005):

• "A Short History of Tall Buildings" (3 parts)

Series 6 (from 22 June 2005):

• Fantastic Mr Dahl - about children's author Roald Dahl
• Frida Kahlo
• "Being a Concert Pianist"

Series 7 (from 23 November 2005):

• "Elgar and the Missing Concerto"
• "Amos Oz - The Conscience of Israel"
• "Chuck Close - Close Up"
• "Rhythm Is It!"

Series 8 (from 17 January 2006)

• "Sweet Home New Orleans" - examining the city's musical heritage
• "Andy Warhol - Warhol Denied"
• "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Studio"
• "Sitting Comfortably" - Tracing the changing styles of the modern chair

Series 9 (from 23 May 2006)

• "Being Hamlet" - about actor Wayne Cater as he prepares to play Hamlet
• "The Artist Formerly Known As Cat Stevens" - telling the story of pop star Cat Stevens and how he became Yusuf Islam.
• "The Ingenious Thomas Heatherwick"
• "A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin"

Series 10 (from 17 October 2006)

• "Peter Pan: a Hard Act to Follow"
• "Velazquez, the Painter's Painter"
• "A Play for Today" - about Jeremy Weller's play, The Foolish Young Man
• "The Movie Brats, Take Two" - about a group of maverick American directors
• "Who Cares About Art?" - follows the work of five art curators
• "Hans Holbein, International Man of Mystery"
• "Being a Diva" - about operatic divas
• www.herecomeseverybody.co.uk - a history of the World Wide Web
• "And Then There Was Television" - about the early days of television

Special (27 December 2006)

• "The Beatles in Love" - documenting the creation of The Beatles project Love

Series 11 (from 8 May 2007)

• "Gilbert and George" - No Surrender
• "Stealing Klimt" - the story of a 90-year-old's struggle to recover her family's paintings.
• "Scott Walker"
• "It's the Surreal Thing" - a history of Surrealism

Special (4 July 2007)

• Damon and Jamie's Excellent Adventure - documentary about cartoon pop group Gorillaz' foray into opera

Series 12 (from 23 October 2007)

• "Henry Perkins: Bolshoi Boy" - following a British boy at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy
• "Bollywood's Big B" - a profile of Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan
• "Helvetica"
• "Louise Bourgeois: Spiderwoman" - (with interviews from leading British artists Tracey Emin, Antony Gormley and Stella Vine)
• "How to Get on in the Art World" - featuring material on the Frieze Art Fair
• "The Secret of Life" - looking at the popularity of self-help books
• "Richard Rogers, Inside Out"
• "Marc Newson: Urban Spaceman"

Series 13 (from 23 May 2008)

• "Doris Lessing - The Hostess and The Alien"
• "Oliver Sacks - Tales of Music and The Brain"
• "Annie Leibovitz - Life Through a Lens"
• "A Trip to Asia: On the Road with the Berlin Philharmonic"
• "A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami"
• "Werner Herzog - Beyond Reason"
• "Love, Loss and Anthony Minghella"

Series 14 (from 5 October 2008)

• "The Story of the Guitar - In the Beginning"
• "The Story of the Guitar - Out of the Frying Pan"
• "Dangerous Liaisons: When Akram Met Juliette"
• "The Story of the Guitar - This Time It's Personal"
• "A Love Story"
• "Jay-Z: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered"
• "Let There Be Light"
• "How an Orchestra Saved Venezuela's Children"
• "Richard Serra: Man of Steel"
• "Heavy Metal in Baghdad"

Series 15 (from 23 June 2009)

• "Save the Last Dance for Me: The Company of Elders"
• "David Hockney - A Bigger Picture"
• "Rufus Wainwright - Prima Donna"
• "William Eggleston - The Colourful Mr Eggleston"
• "Art in Troubled Times: A New Deal for Art"
• "Art in Troubled Times: The Home Front"

Series 16 (from 17 November 2009)

• "The Year of Anish Kapoor"
• "Dame Shirley Bassey - The Girl from Tiger Bay"
• "Own Art" - looking at an Arts Council scheme that enables people from all walks of life to buy a piece of art
• "Joan Baez - How Sweet the Sound"
• "Scrabble - A Night on the Tiles"

Series 17 (from 5 April 2010)

• "Vincent Van Gogh: Painted with Words"
• "The Rolling Stones - The Stones in Exile"

Series 18 (from 15 June 2010)

• "Nigel Kennedy's Polish Adventure"
• "Art Is Child's Play"
• "Diana Athill - Growing Old Disgracefully"
• "Tom Jones - What Good Am I?"

Series 19 (from 16 November 2010)

• "Ai Weiwei - Without Fear or Favour"
• "Ron Galella - Smash His Camera"
• "The Weird Adventures of Eadweard Muybridge"
• "Ben Hur in Bath"
• "Ray Davies - Imaginary Man"

Special (23 February 2011)

• The Plinth, the Model, the Artist and his Sculpture - Film about Marc Quinn's sculpture "Alison Lapper Pregnant" in place on Trafalgar Square's Fourth plinth during 2005 to 2007.

The Trouble with Tolstoy (from 27 March 2011)

• "At War with Himself"
• "In Search of Happiness"

Series 20 (from 28 June 2011)

• "The Man Who Forgot How to Read and Other Stories"
• "The Pharaohs' Museum on Liberation Square"
• "Lennon: The New York Years"
• "Harry Nilsson: The Missing Beatle"
• "Iraq in Venice"
• "U2: From the Sky Down"

Series 21 (from 1 November 2011)

• "Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
• "Simon & Garfunkel - The Harmony Game"
• "Alan Ayckbourn - Greetings from Scarborough"
• "Vidal Sassoon - A Cut Above"
• "The Lost Music of Rajasthan"
• "Books - The Last Chapter?"
• "The Art of Stand-Up - Part One"
• "The Art of Stand-Up - Part Two"

Series 22 (from 26 June 2012)

• "Theatre of War"
• "Paul Simon's Graceland - Under African Skies"
• "Just One Falsetto"
• "Glasgow: The Grit and The Glamour"
• "Dancing with Titian"

Series 23 (from 19 September 2012)

• "The Fatwa - Salman's Story"
• "Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender"
• "Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective"
• "Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story"
• "The Many Lives of William Klein"
• "How Music Makes Us Feel"
• "Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me"
• "A Beauty is Born: Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty"

Series 24 (from 28 March 2013)

• Beyoncé: Life Is But a Dream
• "David Bowie - Cracked Actor"
• "Vivian Maier - Who Took Nanny's Pictures?"

Series 25 (from 5 Nov 2013)

• "Edmund de Waal: Make Pots or Die"
• "Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy"
• "Turning the Art World Inside Out"
• "Hitler, the Tiger and Me"
• "Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?"

Series 26 (from 18 May 2014)

• "Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca"
• "Philip Roth Unleashed" (2 parts)
• Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar

Series 27

• The Art That Hitler Hated
• The Art That Hitler Hated: The Sins Of The Fathers
• Bette Midler: The Divine Miss M
• Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On
• Anselm Kiefer: Remembering The Future
• The One and Only Mike Leigh
• Colm Toibin: His Mother's Son

Series 28

• Frank Gehry: The Architect Says, Why Can't I?
• Jeff Koons: Diary of A Seducer
• Beware Of Mr Baker
• Toni Morrison Remembers
• Richard Flanagan: Life After Death

Series 29

• Shylock's Ghost

Other (2006)

• Imagine... A Mildly Amusing Panel Show - a special highlights edition of Never Mind the Buzzcocks, a parody of the Imagine series, presented by Yentob himself.

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References

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External links

• Imagine at BBC Programmes
• Imagine on IMDb

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