British TV series or programme
Imagine (typeset as imagine...)[1] is a wide-ranging arts series first broadcast on BBC One in 2003, hosted and executive produced by Alan Yentob. Most series consist of 4 to 7 episodes, each on a different topic. Episodes have been directed by, among others, Geoff Wonfor, Lucy Blakstead, Jill Nicholls, Roger Parsons and Zoë Silver.
List of episodes
Series 1 (from 11 June 2003):
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 phenomenon of the animated feature film
- "An A-Z of the OED"
Series 3 (from 2 June 2004):
Series 4 (from 24 November 2004):
Series 5 (from 11 May 2005):
- "A Short History of Tall Buildings" (3 parts)
Series 6 (from 22 June 2005):
Series 7 (from 23 November 2005):
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)
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)
Series 13 (from 23 May 2008)
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)
Series 17 (from 5 April 2010)
Series 18 (from 15 June 2010)
Series 19 (from 16 November 2010)
Special (23 February 2011)
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)
Series 22 (from 26 June 2012)
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"[2][3]
- "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)
Series 25 (from 5 Nov 2013)
Series 26 (from 18 May 2014)
Series 27 (from Winter 2014)
Series 28 (from Summer 2015)
Series 29 (from Autumn 2015)
- "Shylock's Ghost"
- "Antony Gormley: Being Human"
- "My Curious Documentary"
- "The Last Impresario"
- "The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson"
- "David Chipperfield: A Place to Be"
- "Carlos Acosta: Cuba Calls"
Summer 2016
Shorts (2016-7)
- "The Handmade Films of William Kentridge - Part 1"
- "The Handmade Films of William Kentridge - Part 2"
Autumn 2016
- "The Seven Killings of Marlon James"
- "The Triumph and Laments of William Kentridge"
- "Serial Killers - The Women Who Write Crime Fiction"
- "The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan"
- "Listen to Me Marlon"
Winter 2016
- "She Spoke the Unspeakable"
- "Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise"
- "Alice Neel: Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde"
- "Chris Ofili - The Caged Bird's Song"
Summer 2017
- "Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures"
- "Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned!"
- "Alma Deutscher: Finding Cinderella"
- "Cameron Mackintosh: The Musical Man"
Winter 2017-8
- "Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room"
- "Mel Brooks: Unwrapped"
- "Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons"
- "Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words"
- "Andrew Lloyd Webber: Memories"
- "Habaneros: You Say You Want a Revolution? Part One"
- "Habaneros: You Say You Want a Revolution? Part Two"
2018
- "Rupert Everett: Born to be Wilde"
- "Orhan Pamuk: A Strange Mind"
- "Rose Wylie: This Rose Is Blooming"
- "Tacita Dean: Looking to See"
- "Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar"
- "George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?"
- "Tracey Emin: Where Do You Draw the Line?"
- "Becoming Cary Grant"
- "Andrea Levy: Her Island Story"
2019
- "James Graham: In the Room Where It Happens"
- "Jo Brand: No Holds Barred"
- "Bill Viola: The Road to St Paul's"
- "Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless"
- "Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is"
- "Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device"
- "EastSide Story"
2020
- "This House is Full of Music"
- "Lemn Sissay: The Memory of Me"
- "Kate Prince: Every Move She Makes"
- "Kwame Kwei-Armah: ... My Name is Kwame"[4]
- "Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling"
2021[5][6]
2022[9]
- "Marian Keyes: My (not so) Perfect Life"[10]
- "Labi Siffre: This Is My Song"[11]
- "Wayne McGregor: Dancing on the Edge"[12]
- "Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs"[13][14]
- "Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens"[15]
2023
- “Stephen Frears: Director for Hire”
- “The Factory: Made in Manchester”
- “French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter”
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.