Episode guide
imagine…: 2018
9 episodes · premiered May 20, 2018
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- Episode 1: Rupert Everett: Born to be Wilde May 20, 2018 · 1h 6m 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.
- Episode 2: Orhan Pamuk: A Strange Mind May 27, 2018 · 1h 8m 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.
- Episode 3: Rose Wylie: This Rose Is Blooming Jul 22, 2018 · 1h 8m 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.
- Episode 4: Tacita Dean: Looking to See Jul 29, 2018 · 1h 10m 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.
- Episode 5: Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar Oct 9, 2018 · 1h 3m 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.
- Episode 6: George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up? Oct 16, 2018 · 1h 23m 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.
- Episode 7: Tracey Emin: Where Do You Draw the Line? Oct 23, 2018 · 1h 16m 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
- Episode 8: Becoming Cary Grant Oct 30, 2018 · 1h 25m A revealing insight into the life of Hollywood icon Cary Grant, featuring excerpts from his unpublished autobiography and newly discovered footage shot by Grant himself.
- Episode 9: Andrea Levy: Her Island Story Dec 19, 2018 · 1h 11m 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.