imagine...
imagine... is a TV show on BBC1. 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. The long-running program has been available since 2012. A total of 139 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in April 2024.
Last broadcast:16/04/2024 at 22:40
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1:10:00
Alan Yentob with the story of a nanny who died in 2009 and left behind a secret hoard of photographs. Never seen in her lifetime, and found by chance, they now sell for thousands.
February 2024
January 2024
55:00
Alan Yentob gains an insight into the creative world of Dame Shirley Bassey, and takes a look back over her life and career, complete with archive of her greatest performances.
December 2023
1:05:00
Alan Yentob joins Anselm Kiefer at his studios in France and Germany as he prepares for a retrospective at the Royal Academy.
November 2023
58:00
Alan Yentob accompanies novelist Marlon James back to James's home country of Jamaica and finds in his novels a complex portrait of the turbulent history of his native country.
October 2023
1:10:00
Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison, America's first lady of literature, talks to Alan Yentob about her life and work. Contributors include Angela Davis and singer Jessye Norman.
1:15:00
Alan Yentob meets Lenny Henry as he publishes a first volume of autobiography, charting his early years in show business.
14:00
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.
September 2023
1:07:00
Thirty years after her death, to coincide with a major Tate Modern show, imagine... tells the story of Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the most inspiring artists ever.