imagine…
imagine…: Season 47

Air Date

May 20, 2018

Episodes

9 episodes

imagine…

Season 47

Episodes

Rupert Everett: Born to be Wilde

1. Rupert Everett: Born to be Wilde

May 20, 2018
66 min

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.

Orhan Pamuk: A Strange Mind

2. Orhan Pamuk: A Strange Mind

May 27, 2018
68 min

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.

Rose Wylie: This Rose Is Blooming

3. Rose Wylie: This Rose Is Blooming

July 22, 2018
68 min

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.

Tacita Dean: Looking to See

4. Tacita Dean: Looking to See

July 29, 2018
70 min

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.

Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar

5. Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar

October 9, 2018
63 min

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.

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

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

October 16, 2018
83 min

Tracking 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.

Tracey Emin: Where Do You Draw the Line?

7. Tracey Emin: Where Do You Draw the Line?

October 21, 2018
76 min

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.

Becoming Cary Grant

8. Becoming Cary Grant

October 30, 2018
85 min

A revealing insight into the life of Hollywood icon Cary Grant, featuring excerpts from his unpublished autobiography and newly discovered footage shot by Grant himself.

Andrea Levy: Her Island Story

9. Andrea Levy: Her Island Story

November 4, 2018
72 min

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.