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Series
imagine…
📅 2003
⭐ 5.8
🕐 50 min
GB
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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.
Seasons & Episodes
E1
The Saatchi Phenomenon
2003-06-11
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Barbara Hepworth: Shapes Out of Feelings
2003-06-18
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The Hip Hop Generation
2003-06-25
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Stella's Story
2003-07-02
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Carlos Acosta: The Reluctant Ballet Dancer
2003-07-09
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The Potrait of Omai
2003-07-16
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Sir John Mortimer: Owning Up at 80
2003-07-30
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The Voice of Bryn Terfel
2003-11-12
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A Very Funny Business
2003-11-19
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Entertaining Mr Soane
2003-11-26
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The World According to Parr
2003-12-03
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From Pencils to Pixels
2003-12-10
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An A-Z of the OED
2003-12-17
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The Mysterious Mr Hopper
2004-06-02
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Sitting for Lucian Freud
2004-06-09
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Saint John Coltrane
2004-06-16
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Dirty But Clean Pierre
2004-06-23
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Unsuitable for Children?
2004-12-15
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The Smoking Diaries
2004-12-15
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Arthur Miller - Finishing the Picture
2004-11-24
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Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson’s Smile
2004-12-01
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Bruce Nauman: the Godfather of Modem Art
2004-12-08
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Brando
2004-12-16
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Tony Pappano - a Year at the Opera
2004-12-22
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A Short History of Tall Buildings - Episode 1
2005-05-11
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A Short History of Tall Buildings - Episode 2
2005-05-18
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A Short History of Tall Buildings - Episode 3
2005-05-25
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Fantastic Mr Dahl
2005-06-22
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Frida Kahlo
2005-06-29
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Being a Concert Pianist
2005-07-06
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Elgar and the Missing Concerto
2005-11-23
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Amos Oz: The Conscience of Israel
2005-11-30
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Chuck Close, Close Up
2005-12-07
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Rhythm Is It!
2005-12-14
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Sweet Home New Orleans
2006-01-17
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Warhol: Denied
2006-01-24
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Studio
2006-01-31
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Sitting Comfortably
2006-02-07
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Being Hamlet
2006-05-23
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The Artist Formerly Known as Cat Stevens
2006-05-30
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The Ingenious Thomas Heatherwick
2006-06-06
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A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin
2006-06-13
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Peter Pan, a Hard Act to Follow
2006-10-17
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Velazquez, The Painter's Painter
2006-10-24
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A Play for Today
2006-10-31
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The Movie Brats, Take Two
2006-11-07
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Who Cares About Art?
2006-11-14
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Being a Diva
2006-11-28
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www.herecomeseverybody.co.uk
2006-12-06
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And Then There Was Television
2006-12-19
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Gilbert and George: No Surrender
2007-05-08
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Stealing Klimt
2007-05-15
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Scott Walker
2007-05-22
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It's the Surreal Thing
2007-05-29
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Henry Perkins: Bolshoi Boy
2007-10-23
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Bollywood's Big B
2007-10-30
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Helvetica
2008-11-06
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Louise Bourgeois: Spiderwoman
2007-11-13
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How to Get on in the Art World
2007-11-20
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The Secret of Life
2008-02-19
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Richard Rogers: Inside Out
2008-02-26
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Marc Newson: Urban Spaceman
2008-03-04
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Doris Lessing - The Reluctant Heroine
2008-05-27
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Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain
2008-06-03
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Annie Leibovitz, Life Through A Lens
2008-06-10
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A Trip to Asia: on the Road with the Berlin Philharmonic
2008-06-17
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A Wild Sheep Chase: in Search of Haruki Murakami
2008-06-24
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Werner Herzog: Beyond Reason
2008-07-01
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Love, Loss and Anthony Minghella
2008-07-08
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The Story of the Guitar: Episode 1: In the Beginning
2008-10-05
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The Story of the Guitar: Episode 2: Out of the Frying Pan
2008-10-12
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Dangerous Liaison: When Akram met Juliette
2008-10-14
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The Story of the Guitar: Episode 3: This Time it's Personal
2008-10-19
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A Love Story
2008-10-21
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Jay-Z: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered
2008-10-28
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Let There Be Light
2008-11-11
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How an Orchestra Saved Venezuela's Children
2008-11-18
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Richard Serra: Man of Steel
2008-11-25
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Heavy Metal in Baghdad
2008-12-02
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Save the Last Dance for Me
2009-06-23
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David Hockney - A Bigger Picture
2009-06-30
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Rufus Wainwright, Prima Donna
2009-07-07
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The Colourful Mr Eggleston
2009-07-14
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Art in Troubled Times: A New Deal for Art
2009-07-21
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Art In Troubled Times: Part II - The Home Front
2009-07-28
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The Year Of Anish Kapoor
2009-11-17
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Dame Shirley Bassey: The Girl From Tiger Bay
2009-11-24
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Own Art
2009-12-01
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Joan Baez
2009-12-08
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Plácido Domingo
2009-12-15
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Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles
2009-12-22
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Vincent Van Gogh: Painted with Words
2010-04-05
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The Stones in Exile
2010-05-23
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Nigel Kennedy's Polish Adventure
2010-06-15
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Art Is Child's Play
2010-06-22
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Diana Athill – Growing Old Disgracefully
2010-06-29
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Tom Jones – What Good Am I?
2010-07-06
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Ai Weiwei - Without Fear or Favour
2010-11-16
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Smash His Camera
2010-11-23
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The Weird Adventures of Eadweard Muybridge
2010-11-30
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Bruce Springsteen: Darkness Revisited
2010-12-07
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Ben-Hur
2010-12-14
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Ray Davies - Imaginary Man
2010-12-21
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The Trouble with Tolstoy: Part 1: At War with Himself
2011-03-27
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The Trouble with Tolstoy: Part 2: In Search of Happiness
2011-04-03
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The Man Who Forgot How to Read and Other Stories
2011-06-28
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The Pharaohs' Museum on Liberation Square
2011-07-05
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Lennon: The New York Years
2011-07-12
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Harry Nilsson: The Missing Beatle
2011-07-19
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Iraq in Venice
2011-07-26
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Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
2011-11-01
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Simon and Garfunkel - The Harmony Game
2011-11-08
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Alan Ayckbourn - Greetings from Scarborough
2011-11-15
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Vidal Sassoon - A Cut Above
2011-11-22
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The Lost Music of Rajasthan
2011-12-06
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Books - The Last Chapter?
2011-12-13
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The Art of Stand-Up - Part One
2011-12-19
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The Art of Stand-Up - Part Two
2011-12-20
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Theatre of War
2012-06-26
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Paul Simon's Graceland - Under African Skies
2012-07-03
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Just One Falsetto
2012-07-10
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Glasgow: The Grit and the Glamour
2012-07-12
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Dancing with Titian
2012-07-24
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The Fatwa - Salman's Story
2012-09-19
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Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective
2012-11-06
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Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story
2012-11-12
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Lang Lang
2012-11-12
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The Many Lives of William Klein
2012-11-20
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How Music Makes Us Feel
2012-11-27
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Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me
2012-12-04
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A Beauty is Born: Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty
2012-12-18
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Beyoncé: Life is But a Dream
2013-03-28
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David Bowie: Cracked Actor
2013-04-04
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Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin'
2013-10-29
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Edmund de Waal: Make Pots or Die
2013-11-05
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Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy
2013-11-12
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Turning the Art World Inside Out
2013-11-19
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Hitler, the Tiger and Me
2013-11-26
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Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?
2013-12-03
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Rio 50 Degrees: Carry On CaRIOca
2014-05-18
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Philip Roth Unleashed Part 1
2014-05-20
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Philip Roth Unleashed Part 2
2014-05-27
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Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
2014-06-29
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The Art That Hitler Hated
2014-10-28
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The Art That Hitler Hated: The Sins of the Fathers
2014-11-04
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Bette Midler: The Divine Miss M
2014-11-11
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Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On
2014-11-11
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Anselm Kiefer: Remembering The Future
2014-11-18
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The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014-11-25
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Colm Toibin: His Mother's Son
2014-12-02
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Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"
2015-06-23
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Jeff Koons: Diary of a Seducer
2015-06-30
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Beware of Mr Baker
2015-07-07
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Toni Morrison Remembers
2015-07-14
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Richard Flanagan: Life After Death
2015-07-21
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Shylock's Ghost
2015-10-27
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Antony Gormley: Being Human
2015-11-03
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My Curious Documentary
2015-11-10
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The Last Impresario
2015-11-17
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The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson
2015-11-24
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David Chipperfield: A Place to Be
2015-12-01
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Carlos Acosta: Cuba Calls
2015-12-08
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One Night in 2012
2016-07-17
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DANGER! Cornelia Parker
2016-07-19
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Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself
2016-07-26
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Sir Roderick Stewart: Can't Stop Me Now
2016-07-31
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The Seven Killings of Marlon James
2016-10-29
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The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge
2016-11-22
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Serial Killers - The Women Who Write Crime Fiction
2016-11-29
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The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan
2016-12-06
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Listen to Me Marlon
2017-01-14
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She Spoke the Unspeakable
2017-02-21
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Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
2017-02-28
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Alice Neel: Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde
2017-03-06
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Chris Ofili - The Caged Bird's Song
2017-07-15
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Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
2017-07-29
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Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned!
2017-08-28
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Alma Deutscher: Finding Cinderella
2017-09-04
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Cameron Mackintosh: The Musical Man
2017-09-11
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Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room
2017-12-02
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Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
2018-02-17
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Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons
2018-03-05
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Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words
2018-03-26
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Andrew Lloyd Webber: Memories
2018-03-19
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Habaneros: You Say You Want a Revolution? Part One
2018-04-21
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Habaneros: You Say You Want a Revolution? Part Two
2018-04-22
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Rupert Everett: Born to be Wilde
2018-05-20
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Orhan Pamuk: A Strange Mind
2018-05-27
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Rose Wylie: This Rose Is Blooming
2018-07-22
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Tacita Dean: Looking to See
2018-07-29
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Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar
2018-10-09
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George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?
2018-10-16
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Tracey Emin: Where Do You Draw the Line?
2018-10-23
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Becoming Cary Grant
2018-10-30
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Andrea Levy: Her Island Story
2018-12-19
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James Graham: In the Room Where It Happens
2019-01-21
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Jo Brand: No Holds Barred
2019-01-28
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Bill Viola: The Road to St Paul's
2019-02-04
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Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless
2019-07-07
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Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is
2019-07-14
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Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device
2019-07-28
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EastSide Story
2019-09-30
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Lenny Henry: Young, Gifted and Black
2020-01-02
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This House Is Full of Music
2020-07-12
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Lemn Sissay: The Memory of Me
2020-07-23
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Kate Prince: Every Move She Makes
2020-07-30
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My Name Is Kwame
2020-08-06
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Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling
2020-10-11
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We'll Be Back?
2021-02-09
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Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting
2021-03-28
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Bernardine Evaristo: Never Give Up
2021-09-02
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Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life
2021-09-09
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Marian Keyes: My (not so) Perfect Life
2022-02-07
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Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
2022-02-14
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Wayne McGregor: Dancing on the Edge
2022-02-21
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Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
2022-04-25
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Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
2022-05-02
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Malorie Blackman: What If?
2022-10-31
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Sonia Boyce: Finding Her Voice
2022-11-07
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Douglas Stuart: Love, Hope and Grit
2022-11-14
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Stephen Frears: Director for Hire
2023-03-20
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The Factory: Made in Manchester
2023-12-11
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French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023-12-27
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Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
2024-04-16
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Habaneros: You Say You Want a Revolution? (1)
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Habaneros: You Say You Want a Revolution? (2)
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Rupert Everett: Born to be Wilde
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Orhan Pamuk: A Strange Mind
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Rose Wylie: This Rose Is Blooming
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Tacita Dean: Looking to See
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Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar
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George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?
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Tracey Emin: Where Do You Draw the Line?
2018-10-21
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Becoming Cary Grant
2018-10-30
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Andrea Levy: Her Island Story
2018-11-04
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James Graham: In the Room Where It Happens
2019-01-21
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Jo Brand: No Holds Barred
2019-01-28
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Bill Viola: The Road to St Paul’s
2019-02-04
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Edna O'Brien: Fearful… and Fearless
2019-07-07
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Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is
2019-07-14
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Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device
2019-07-28
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EastSide Story
2019-07-30
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This House is Full of Music
2020-07-12
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Lemn Sissay: The Memory of Me
2020-07-23
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Kate Prince: Every Move She Makes
2020-07-30
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My Name Is Kwame
2020-08-06
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Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling
2020-10-11
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Lenny Henry: Young, Gifted and Black
2020-01-02
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We'll Be Back?
2021-02-09
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Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting
2021-03-28
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Bernardine Evaristo: Never Give Up
2021-09-02
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Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life
2021-09-09
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Marian Keyes: My (not so) Perfect Life
2022-02-07
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Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
2022-02-14
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Wayne McGregor: Dancing on the Edge
2022-02-21
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Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
2022-04-25
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Jacob Collier: The Room Where It Happens
2022-05-02
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Malorie Blackman: What If?
2022-10-31
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Sonia Boyce: Finding Her Voice
2022-11-07
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Douglas Stuart: Love, Hope and Grit
2022-11-14
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