Imagine (TV series)

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Imagine
Genre Documentary
Presented by Alan Yentob
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of series 22
Production
Executive producer(s) Alan Yentob
Broadcast
Original channel BBC One
Picture format 576i (16:9 SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
Original run 11 June 2003 (2003-06-11) – present
External links
Website

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.

List of episodes

Series 1 (from 11 June 2003):

Series 2 (from 12 November 2003):

Series 3 (from 2 June 2004):

Series 4 (from 24 November 2004):

Series 5 (from 11 May 2005):

  • A Short History of Tall Buildings (3 parts)

Series 6 (from 22 June 2005):

Series 7 (from 23 November 2005):

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)

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)

Series 12 (from 23 October 2007)

Series 13 (from 23 May 2008)

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)

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)

Series 20 (from 26 June 2012)

Series 21 (from 19 September 2012)

  • The Fatwa - Salman's Story
  • Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender
  • Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective
  • Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story
  • The Many Lives of William Klein
  • How Music Makes Us Feel
  • Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me
  • A Beauty is Born: Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty

Series 22 (from 28 March 2013)

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.

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