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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.
Season 1
11 Jun 2003 – 23 Jul 2003 · 7 episodes
- 1The Saatchi Phenomenon11 Jun 2003
- 2Barbara Hepworth, Shapes out of Feelings18 Jun 2003
- 3The Hip-Hop Generation25 Jun 2003
- 4Stella's Story2 Jul 2003
- 5Carlos Acosta, the Reluctant Ballet Dancer9 Jul 2003
- 6The Portrait of Omai16 Jul 2003
- 7John Mortimer Owning up at 8023 Jul 2003
Season 2
12 Nov 2003 – 17 Dec 2003 · 6 episodes
- 1The Voice of Bryn Terfel12 Nov 2003
- 2A Funny Business19 Nov 2003
- 3Entertaining Mr Soane26 Nov 2003
- 4The World According to Parr3 Dec 2003
- 5From Pencils to Pixels10 Dec 2003
- 6An A-Z of the OED17 Dec 2003
Season 3
2 Jun 2004 – 7 Jul 2004 · 6 episodes
- 1The Mysterious Mr Hopper2 Jun 2004
- 2Sitting for Lucian Freud9 Jun 2004
- 3Saint John Coltrane16 Jun 2004
- 4Dirty But Clean Pierre23 Jun 2004
- 5Unsuitable for Children?30 Jun 2004
- 6Simon Gray's Smoking Diaries7 Jul 2004
Season 4
24 Nov 2004 – 22 Dec 2004 · 5 episodes
- 1Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture24 Nov 2004
- 2Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson's Smile1 Dec 2004
- 3Bruce Nauman: The Godfather of Modern Art8 Dec 2004
- 4Marlon Brando15 Dec 2004
- 5Antonio Pappano: A Year at the Opera22 Dec 2004
Season 5
11 May 2005 – 25 May 2005 · 3 episodes
- 1A Short History of Tall Buildings - Episode 111 May 2005
- 2A Short History of Tall Buildings - Episode 218 May 2005
- 3A Short History of Tall Buildings - Episode 325 May 2005
Season 6
22 Jun 2005 – 6 Jun 2005 · 3 episodes
- 1Fantastic Mr Dahl22 Jun 2005
- 2Frida Kahlo29 Jun 2005
- 3Being a Concert Pianist6 Jun 2005
Season 7
23 Nov 2005 – 14 Dec 2005 · 4 episodes
- 1Elgar and the Missing Concerto23 Nov 2005
- 2Amos Oz: The Conscience of Israel30 Nov 2005
- 3Chuck Close, Close Up7 Dec 2005
- 4Rhythm Is It!14 Dec 2005
Season 8
17 Jan 2006 – 7 Feb 2006 · 4 episodes
- 1Sweet Home New Orleans17 Jan 2006
- 2Andy Warhol: Denied24 Jan 2006
- 3A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Studio31 Jan 2006
- 4Sitting Comfortably7 Feb 2006
Season 9
23 May 2006 – 13 Jun 2006 · 4 episodes
- 1Being Hamlet23 May 2006
- 2Yusuf, the Artist Formerly Known as Cat Stevens30 May 2006
- 3The Ingenious Thomas Heatherwick6 Jun 2006
- 4A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin13 Jun 2006
Season 10
17 Oct 2006 – 27 Dec 2006 · 10 episodes
- 1Peter Pan, a Hard Act to Follow17 Oct 2006
- 2Velazquez, The Painter's Painter24 Oct 2006
- 3A Play for Today31 Oct 2006
- 4The Movie Brats, Take Two7 Nov 2006
- 5Who Cares About Art?14 Nov 2006
- 6Hans Holbein, International Man of Mystery21 Nov 2006
- 7Being a Diva28 Nov 2006
- 8www.herecomeseverybody.co.uk19 Dec 2006
- 9And Then There Was Television19 Dec 2006
- 10The Beatles in Love27 Dec 2006
Season 11
8 May 2007 – 4 Jul 2007 · 5 episodes
- 1Gilbert and George: No Surrender8 May 2007
- 2Stealing Klimt15 May 2007
- 3Scott Walker22 May 2007
- 4It's The Surreal Thing29 May 2007
- 5Damon and Jamie's Excellent Adventure4 Jul 2007
Season 12
23 Oct 2007 – 4 Mar 2008 · 8 episodes
- 1Henry Perkins: Bolshoi Boy23 Oct 2007
- 2Bollywood's Big B30 Oct 2007
- 3Helvetica6 Nov 2007
- 4Louise Bourgeois: Spiderwoman13 Nov 2007
- 5How to Get on in the Art World20 Nov 2007
- 6The Secret of Life19 Feb 2008
- 7Richard Rogers, Inside Out26 Feb 2008
- 8Marc Newson: Urban Spaceman4 Mar 2008
Season 13
27 May 2008 – 8 Jul 2008 · 7 episodes
- 1Doris Lessing - The Reluctant Heroine27 May 2008
- 2Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain3 Jun 2008
- 3Annie Leibovitz - Life Through a Lens10 Jun 2008
- 4A Trip to Asia: On the Road with the Berlin Philharmonic17 Jun 2008
- 5A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami24 Jun 2008
- 6Werner Herzog: Beyond Reason1 Jul 2008
- 7Love, Loss and Anthony Minghella8 Jul 2008
Season 14
5 Oct 2008 – 2 Dec 2008 · 10 episodes
- 1The Story of the Guitar - In The Beginning5 Oct 2008
- 2The Story of the Guitar - Out of the Frying Pan12 Oct 2008
- 3Dangerous Liaisons: When Akram met Juliette14 Oct 2008
- 4The Story of the Guitar - This Time it's Personal19 Oct 2008
- 5A Love Story21 Oct 2008
- 6Jay-Z: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered28 Oct 2008
- 7Let There Be Light11 Nov 2008
- 8How an Orchestra Saved Venezuela's Children18 Nov 2008
- 9Richard Serra: Man of Steel25 Nov 2008
- 10Heavy Metal in Baghdad2 Dec 2008
Season 15
5 Apr 2009 – 25 Jul 2009 · 8 episodes
- 1Yes We Can! The Lost Art Of Oratory5 Apr 2009
- 2Save the Last Dance for Me23 Jun 2009
- 3David Hockney: A Bigger Picture30 Jun 2009
- 4Rufus Wainwright, Prima Donna7 Jul 2009
- 5The Colourful Mr Eggleston14 Jul 2009
- 6Art in Troubled Times: A New Deal for Art21 Jul 2009
- 8Art in Troubled Times: Part II – The Home Front28 Jul 2009
- 10The Smoking Diaries Update25 Jul 2009
Season 16
17 Nov 2009 – 22 Dec 2009 · 6 episodes
- 1The Year of Anish Kapoor17 Nov 2009
- 2Dame Shirley Bassey: The Girl from Tiger Bay24 Nov 2009
- 3Own Art1 Dec 2009
- 4Joan Baez... How Sweet the Sound8 Dec 2009
- 5Placido Domingo: The Time of My Life15 Dec 2009
- 6Scrabble - A Night on the Tiles22 Dec 2009
Season 17
5 Apr 2010 – 23 May 2010 · 2 episodes
- 1Vincent Van Gogh: Painted with Words5 Apr 2010
- 2The Stones in Exile23 May 2010
Season 18
15 Jun 2010 – 6 Jul 2010 · 4 episodes
- 1Nigel Kennedy's Polish Adventure15 Jun 2010
- 2Art Is Child's Play22 Jun 2010
- 3Growing Old Disgracefully29 Jun 2010
- 4Tom Jones - What Good Am I?6 Jul 2010
Season 19
16 Nov 2010 – 21 Dec 2010 · 6 episodes
- 1Ai Weiwei - Without Fear or Favour16 Nov 2010
- 2Smash His Camera23 Nov 2010
- 3The Weird Adventures of Eadweard Muybridge30 Nov 2010
- 4Bruce Springsteen: Darkness Revisited7 Dec 2010
- 5Ben-Hur14 Dec 2010
- 6Ray Davies - Imaginary Man21 Dec 2010
Season 20
27 Mar 2011 – 26 Jul 2011 · 7 episodes
- 1The Trouble with Tolstoy - 1. At War with Himself27 Mar 2011
- 2The Trouble with Tolstoy - 2. In Search of Happiness3 Apr 2011
- 3The Man Who Forgot How to Read and Other Stories28 Jun 2011
- 4The Pharaohs' Museum on Liberation Square5 Jul 2011
- 5Lennon: The New York Years12 Jul 2011
- 6Harry Nilsson: The Missing Beatle19 Jul 2011
- 7Iraq in Venice26 Jul 2011
Season 21
9 Oct 2011 – 20 Dec 2011 · 9 episodes
- 1U2: From the Sky Down9 Oct 2011
- 2Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman1 Nov 2011
- 3Simon and Garfunkel - The Harmony Game8 Nov 2011
- 4Alan Ayckbourn - Greetings from Scarborough15 Nov 2011
- 5Vidal Sassoon - A Cut Above22 Nov 2011
- 6The Lost Music of Rajasthan6 Dec 2011
- 7Books - The Last Chapter?13 Dec 2011
- 8The Art Of Stand-Up (Part One)19 Dec 2011
- 9The Art Of Stand-Up (Part Two)20 Dec 2011
Season 22
26 Jun 2012 – 24 Jul 2012 · 5 episodes
- 1Theatre of War26 Jun 2012
- 2Paul Simon's Graceland - Under African Skies3 Jul 2012
- 3Just One Falsetto10 Jul 2012
- 4Glasgow: The Grit and the Glamour17 Jul 2012
- 5Dancing with Titian24 Jul 2012
Season 23
19 Sep 2012 – 18 Dec 2012 · 9 episodes
- 1The Fatwa - Salman's Story19 Sep 2012
- 2Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender16 Oct 2012
- 3Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective6 Nov 2012
- 4Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story12 Nov 2012
- 5Lang Lang12 Nov 2012
- 6The Many Lives of William Klein20 Nov 2012
- 7How Music Makes Us Feel27 Nov 2012
- 8Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me4 Dec 2012
- 9A Beauty is Born: Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty18 Dec 2012
Season 24
28 Mar 2013 – 30 Jul 2013 · 8 episodes
- 1Beyoncé: Life is But a Dream28 Mar 2013
- 2David Bowie - Cracked Actor4 Apr 2013
- 3Vivian Maier - Who Took Nanny's Pictures?25 Jun 2013
- 4McCullin2 Jul 2013
- 5Rod Stewart: Can't Stop Me Now9 Jul 2013
- 6Woody Allen: A Documentary - Part One23 Jul 2013
- 7Woody Allen: A Documentary - Part Two24 Jul 2013
- 8Zaha Hadid: Who Dares Wins30 Jul 2013
Season 25
29 Oct 2013 – 3 Dec 2013 · 6 episodes
- 1Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin'29 Oct 2013
- 2Edmund de Waal: Make Pots or Die5 Nov 2013
- 3Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy12 Nov 2013
- 4Turning the Art World Inside Out19 Nov 2013
- 5Hitler, the Tiger, and Me26 Nov 2013
- 6Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?3 Dec 2013
Season 26
18 May 2014 – 29 Jun 2014 · 4 episodes
- 1Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca18 May 2014
- 2Philip Roth Unleashed, Part One20 May 2014
- 3Philip Roth Unleashed, Part Two27 May 2014
- 4Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar29 Jun 2014
Season 27
28 Oct 2014 – 2 Dec 2014 · 7 episodes
- 1The Art That Hitler Hated28 Oct 2014
- 2The Art That Hitler Hated: The Sins of the Fathers4 Nov 2014
- 3Bette Midler: The Divine Miss M11 Nov 2014
- 4Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On11 Nov 2014
- 5Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future18 Nov 2014
- 6The One and Only Mike Leigh25 Nov 2014
- 7Colm Toibin: His Mother's Son2 Dec 2014
Season 28
23 Jun 2015 – 21 Jul 2015 · 5 episodes
- 1Frank Gehry: The Architect Says23 Jun 2015
- 2Jeff Koons: Diary of a Seducer30 Jun 2015
- 3Beware of Mr Baker7 Jul 2015
- 4Toni Morrison Remembers14 Jul 2015
- 5Richard Flanagan: Life After Death21 Jul 2015
Season 29
27 Oct 2015 – 8 Dec 2015 · 7 episodes
- 1Shylock's Ghost27 Oct 2015
- 2Antony Gormley: Being Human3 Nov 2015
- 3My Curious Documentary10 Nov 2015
- 4The Last Impresario17 Nov 2015
- 5The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson24 Nov 2015
- 6David Chipperfield: A Place to Be1 Dec 2015
- 7Carlos Acosta: Cuba Calls8 Dec 2015
Season 30
17 Jul 2016 – 31 Jul 2016 · 4 episodes
- 1One Night in 2012 - An Imagine Special17 Jul 2016
- 2Danger! Cornelia Parker19 Jul 2016
- 3Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself26 Jul 2016
- 4Sir Roderick Stewart: Can't Stop Me Now31 Jul 2016
Season 31
29 Oct 2016 – 15 Jul 2017 · 9 episodes
- 1The Seven Killings of Marlon James29 Oct 2016
- 2The Triumph and Laments of William Kentridge22 Nov 2016
- 3Serial Killers - The Women Who Write Crime Fiction29 Nov 2016
- 4The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan6 Dec 2016
- 5Listen to Me Marlon14 Jan 2017
- 6She Spoke the Unspeakable21 Feb 2017
- 7Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise28 Feb 2017
- 8Alice Neel: Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde6 Mar 2017
- 9Chris Ofili: The Caged Bird's Song15 Jul 2017
Season 32
29 Jul 2017 – 11 Sep 2017 · 4 episodes
- 1Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures29 Jul 2017
- 2Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned!28 Aug 2017
- 3Alma Deutscher: Finding Cinderella4 Sep 2017
- 4Cameron Mackintosh: The Musical Man11 Sep 2017
Season 33
2 Dec 2017 – 22 Apr 2018 · 7 episodes
- 1Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room2 Dec 2017
- 2Mel Brooks: Unwrapped17 Feb 2018
- 3Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons5 Mar 2018
- 4Andrew Lloyd Webber: Memories19 Mar 2018
- 5Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words26 Mar 2018
- 6Habaneros: You Say You Want a Revolution? Part One21 Apr 2018
- 7Habaneros: You Say You Want a Revolution? Part Two22 Apr 2018
Season 34
20 May 2018 – 19 Dec 2018 · 9 episodes
- 1Rupert Everett: Born to be Wilde20 May 2018
- 2Orhan Pamuk: A Strange Mind27 May 2018
- 3Rose Wylie: This Rose is Blooming22 Jul 2018
- 4Tacita Dean: Looking to See29 Jul 2018
- 5Hockney, the Queen and the Royal Peculiar9 Oct 2018
- 6George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?16 Oct 2018
- 7Tracey Emin: Where Do You Draw The Line?23 Oct 2018
- 8Becoming Cary Grant30 Oct 2018
- 9Andrea Levy: Her Island Story19 Dec 2018
Season 35
21 Jan 2019 – 30 Sep 2019 · 7 episodes
- 1James Graham: In the Room Where It Happens21 Jan 2019
- 2Jo Brand: No Holds Barred28 Jan 2019
- 3Bill Viola: The Road to St Paul's4 Feb 2019
- 4Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless7 Jul 2019
- 5Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is14 Jul 2019
- 6Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device28 Jul 2019
- 7EastSide Story30 Sep 2019
Season 36
2 Jan 2020 – 11 Oct 2020 · 6 episodes
- 1Lenny Henry: Young, Gifted and Black2 Jan 2020
- 2This House Is Full of Music12 Jul 2020
- 3Lemn Sissay: The Memory of Me23 Jul 2020
- 4Kate Prince: Every Move She Makes30 Jul 2020
- 5My Name Is Kwame6 Aug 2020
- 6Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling11 Oct 2020
Season 37
9 Feb 2021 – 9 Sep 2021 · 4 episodes
- 1We'll Be Back?9 Feb 2021
- 2Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting28 Mar 2021
- 3Bernardine Evaristo: Never Give Up2 Sep 2021
- 4Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life9 Sep 2021
Season 38
7 Feb 2022 – 14 Nov 2022 · 8 episodes
- 1Marian Keyes: My (not so) Perfect Life7 Feb 2022
- 2Labi Siffre: This Is My Song14 Feb 2022
- 3Wayne McGregor: Dancing on the Edge21 Feb 2022
- 4Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs25 Apr 2022
- 5Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens2 May 2022
- 6Malorie Blackman: What If?31 Oct 2022
- 7Sonia Boyce: Finding Her Voice7 Nov 2022
- 8Douglas Stuart: Love, Hope and Grit14 Nov 2022
Season 39
20 Mar 2023 – 16 Apr 2024 · 5 episodes
- 1Stephen Frears: Director for Hire20 Mar 2023
- 2The Factory: Made in Manchester11 Dec 2023
- 3Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me18 Dec 2023
- 4French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter27 Dec 2023
- 5Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now16 Apr 2024
Season 40
3 Mar 2025 · 1 episode
- 1The Academy of Armando3 Mar 2025
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