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 (6)
1. This House is Full of Music
Aired 12 July 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.
2. Lemn Sissay: The Memory of Me
Aired 23 July 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.
3. Kate Prince: Every Move She Makes
Aired 30 July 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.
4. My Name Is Kwame
Aired 6 August 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.
5. Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling
Aired 11 October 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.
6. Lenny Henry: Young, Gifted and Black
Aired 2 January 2020 • 74 min
Alan Yentob meets Lenny Henry as he publishes a first volume of autobiography, charting his early years in show business.