imagine…
imagine…: Season 49

Air Date

July 12, 2020

Episodes

6 episodes

imagine…

Season 49

Episodes

This House is Full of Music

1. This House is Full of Music

July 12, 2020
59 min

Remote cameras capture a lockdown concert performed by the Kanneh-Mason family from their home in Nottingham, with interviews with the seven musically gifted siblings.

Lemn Sissay: The Memory of Me

2. Lemn Sissay: The Memory of Me

July 23, 2020
66 min

Following the publication of his new memoir My Name Is Why, writer Lemn Sissay tells Alan Yentob what it was like to grow up as the only black child in a sleepy market town outside Wigan in the 1970s.

Kate Prince: Every Move She Makes

3. Kate Prince: Every Move She Makes

July 30, 2020
65 min

Alan Yentob meets choreographer and director Kate Prince as her ZooNation dance company embarks on a new West End production, Message in a Bottle.

My Name Is Kwame

4. My Name Is Kwame

August 6, 2020
61 min

As the Young Vic celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, Alan Yentob meets its current artistic director, playwright and actor, Kwame Kwei-Armah, to discuss his life and career.

Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling

5. Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling

October 11, 2020
59 min

Performance artist Marina Abramovic invites Alan Yentob into her home, opens her archive, travels to her birthplace in Belgrade and talks about turning her life into art.

Lenny Henry: Young, Gifted and Black

6. Lenny Henry: Young, Gifted and Black

January 2, 2020
74 min

Alan Yentob meets Lenny Henry as he publishes a first volume of autobiography, charting his early years in show business.