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Imagine : Season 8
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Air date: 22 May '06 - 7 episodesImagine 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.
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List of Episodes (7)
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Imagine (2003)
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1. Being Hamlet
22 May '06
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Imagine (2003)
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2. Yusuf, the Artist Formerly Known as Cat Stevens
29 May '06
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Imagine (2003)
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3. The Ingenious Thomas Heatherwick
05 Jun '06
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Imagine (2003)
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4. A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin
13 Jun '06Alan Yentob presents a profile of painter Howard Hodgkin. Despite being one of Britain's most successful living artists, he doesn't like talking about his work and no one has seen him paint for over 20 years. With a major retrospective coming up at Tate Britain, he travels with Yentob to India, which has been described as his emotional lifeline. They seek out some of the great monuments of the Mogul empire, visit Hodgkin's huge mural in New Delhi, and go in search of the perfect Bombay sunset.
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Imagine (2003)
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6. The Beatles in "Love"
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Imagine (2003)
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7. Yusuf Islam - The artist formerly known as Cat Stevens
30 May '06Yusuf Islam is the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens BBC1 screened an outstanding Imagine documentary about the superstar who vanished from the stage. At the end of his final performance in 1979, he told the audience: “We’ve only got one life and we’ve got to do the best with it. “You’ve got to find the right path and when you do, you know it. So I pray that you find the right path. Inshallah. Goodbye.” Last Sunday, the same channel broadcast Yusuf’s return to the stage at London’s Porche
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Imagine (2003)
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9. And Then There Was Television
19 Dec '06Exploring the development of television and the BBC on the 70th anniversary of the first highly defined TV broadcast from Alexandra Palace. Alan Yentob follows pioneering engineers and on-screen talent back to the studios, where they reminisce about the early days, including the famous potter's wheel 'interlude' shown when the cameras failed. Alan Yentob celebrates the 70th anniversary of the world's first scheduled high-definition television service, by the BBC from Alexandra Palace in 1936. H
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