About this season
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.
Episodes (5)
1. Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"
Aired 23 June 2015 • 75 min
Alan Yentob explores the colourful career of architect Frank Gehry, one of the world's most celebrated and famously provocative creative forces.
2. Jeff Koons: Diary of a Seducer
Aired 30 June 2015 • 75 min
As Jeff Koons' first retrospective takes over the Whitney Museum in New York and the Pompidou in Paris, imagine... asks what lies beneath the shiny surfaces.
3. Beware of Mr Baker
Aired 7 July 2015 • 90 min
Jay Bulger catches up with the irascible Cream drummer Ginger Baker at his ranch in South Africa. He reflects on his sixty-year career that led him to sellout stadium concerts.
4. Toni Morrison Remembers
Aired 14 July 2015 • 54 min
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.
5. Richard Flanagan: Life After Death
Aired 21 July 2015 • 70 min
2014 Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan journeys with Alan Yentob through his native Tasmania, visiting the places that have inspired his novels.