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 (9)
1. Rupert Everett: Born to be Wilde
Aired 20 May 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.
2. Orhan Pamuk: A Strange Mind
Aired 27 May 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.
3. Rose Wylie: This Rose Is Blooming
Aired 22 July 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.
4. Tacita Dean: Looking to See
Aired 29 July 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.
5. Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar
Aired 9 October 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.
6. George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?
Aired 16 October 2018 • 83 min
The programme tracks 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.
7. Tracey Emin: Where Do You Draw the Line?
Aired 23 October 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. Show more
8. Becoming Cary Grant
Aired 30 October 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A revealing insight into the life of Hollywood icon Cary Grant, featuring excerpts from his unpublished autobiography and newly discovered footage shot by Grant himself.
9. Andrea Levy: Her Island Story
Aired 19 December 2018 • 71 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.