Episodes 9

1 Rupert Everett: Born to be Wilde

May 20, 2018

1h 6m

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.

2 Orhan Pamuk: A Strange Mind

May 27, 2018

1h 8m

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.

3 Rose Wylie: This Rose Is Blooming

July 22, 2018

1h 8m

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.

4 Tacita Dean: Looking to See

July 29, 2018

1h 10m

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.

5 Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar

October 9, 2018

1h 3m

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.

6 George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?

October 16, 2018

1h 23m

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.

7 Tracey Emin: Where Do You Draw the Line?

October 23, 2018

1h 16m

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

8 Becoming Cary Grant

October 30, 2018

1h 25m

A revealing insight into the life of Hollywood icon Cary Grant, featuring excerpts from his unpublished autobiography and newly discovered footage shot by Grant himself.

9 Andrea Levy: Her Island Story

December 19, 2018

1h 11m

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.

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