Imagine (TV series)
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Imagine is a wide ranging arts series first broadcast on BBC One in 2003, hosted and executive produced by Alan Yentob. Each series usually consists of 4 to 7 episodes, each on a different topic. Episodes have been directed by, among others, Geoff Wonfor, Lucy Blakstead, Roger Parsons and Zoë Silver.
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Series 1 (from 11 June 2003):
- Charles Saatchi - The Saatchi Phenomenon
- Barbara Hepworth - Shapes Out of Feelings
- The Hip Hop Generation
- Stella McCartney - Stella's Story
- Carlos Acosta - The Reluctant Ballet Dancer
- The Portrait of Omai
- John Mortimer - Owning Up at 80
Series 2 (from 12 November 2003):
- The Voice of Bryn Terfel
- A Funny Business - A look at UK and US sitcoms
- John Soane - Entertaining Mr Soane
- Martin Parr - The World According to Parr
- From Pencils to Pixels - Celebrating the phenomena of the animated feature film
- An A-Z of the OED
Series 3 (from 2 June 2004):
- Edward Hopper - The Mysterious Mr Hopper
- Sitting for Lucian Freud
- Saint John Coltrane
- Peter Finlay - Dirty But Clean Pierre
- Unsuitable for Children? - Exploring modern children's fiction
- Simon Gray's Smoking Diaries
Series 4 (from 24 November 2004):
- Arthur Miller - Finishing the Picture
- Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson's Smile
- Bruce Nauman - The Godfather of Modern Art
- Marlon Brando
- Antonio Pappano - A Year at the Opera
Series 5 (from 11 May 2005):
- A Short History of Tall Buildings (3 parts)
Series 6 (from 22 June 2005):
- Roald Dahl -Fantastic Mr Dahl
- Frida Kahlo
- Being a Concert Pianist
Series 7 (from 23 November 2005):
- Elgar and the Missing Concerto
- Amos Oz - The Conscience of Israel
- Chuck Close - Close Up
- Rhythm Is It!
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
- Yusuf, the Artist Formerly Known As Cat Stevens
- 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
- The Movie Brats, Take Two
- Who Cares About Art? - follows the work of five art curators
- Hans Holbein - International Man of Mystery
- Being a Diva - operatic divas
- www.herecomeseverybody.co.uk - A history of the World Wide Web (included Wikipedia)
- And Then There Was Television
- The Beatles in Love
Series 11 (from 8 May 2007)
- Gilbert and George - No Surrender
- Gustav Klimt - Stealing Klimt
- Scott Walker
- Imagine... It's the Surreal Thing
- Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett - Damon and Jamie's Excellent Adventure
Series 12 (from 23 October 2007)
- The Bolshoi Boy - following a British boy at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy
- Bollywood's Big B - Amitabh Bachchan
- Helvetica
- Louise Bourgeois - Spiderwoman (with interviews from leading British artists Tracey Emin, Antony Gormley and Stella Vine)
- How to Get on in the Art World
- The Secret of Life
- Richard Rodgers - Inside Out
- Marc Newson - Urban Spaceman
Series 13 (from 23 May 2008)
- Doris Lessing - The Hostess and The Alien
- Oliver Sacks - Tales of Music and The Brain
- Annie Leibovitz - Life Through a Lens
- A Trip to Asia: On the Road with the Berlin Philharmonic
- A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami
- Werner Herzog - Beyond Reason
- Love, Loss and Anthony Minghella
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)
- The Year of Anish Kapoor
- Dame Shirley Bassey - The Girl from Tiger Bay
- Own Art - looking at an Arts Council scheme that enables people from all walks of life to buy a piece of art
- Joan Baez - How Sweet the Sound
- Scrabble - A Night on the Tiles
Series 17 (from 16 November 2010)
- Ai Weiwei - Without Fear or Favour
- Ron Galella - Smash His Camera
- The Weird Adventures of Eadweard Muybridge
- Ben Hur in Bath
- Ray Davies - Imaginary Man
The Trouble with Tolstoy (from 27 March 2011)
- At War with Himself
- In Search of Happiness
Series 18 (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
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.
