Imagine (TV Series) - List of Episodes

List of Episodes

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 British and American 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
• 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
• U2: From the Sky Down

Series 19 (from 1 November 2011)

• Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
• Simon & Garfunkel - The Harmony Game
• Alan Ayckbourn - Greetings from Scarborough
• Vidal Sassoon - A Cut Above
• The Lost Music of Rajasthan
• Books - The Last Chapter?
• The Art of Stand-Up - Part One
• The Art of Stand-Up - Part Two

Series 20 (from 26 June 2012)

• Theatre of War
• Paul Simon's Graceland - Under African Skies
• Just One Falsetto
• Glasgow: The Grit and The Glamour
• Dancing with Titian

Series 21 (from 19 September 2012)

• The Fatwa - Salman's Story

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.