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The answer: Between seasons — last episode March 3, 2025, no return date announced yet.
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About imagine...
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.
imagine... episode schedule
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Aired · 239
| Date | Ep. | Title |
|---|---|---|
| March 3, 2025 | S40·E1 | The Academy of Armando |
| April 16, 2024 | S39·E5 | Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now |
| December 27, 2023 | S39·E4 | French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter |
| December 18, 2023 | S39·E3 | Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me |
| December 11, 2023 | S39·E2 | The Factory: Made in Manchester |
| March 20, 2023 | S39·E1 | Stephen Frears: Director for Hire |
| November 14, 2022 | S38·E8 | Douglas Stuart: Love, Hope and Grit |
| November 7, 2022 | S38·E7 | Sonia Boyce: Finding Her Voice |
| October 31, 2022 | S38·E6 | Malorie Blackman: What If? |
| May 2, 2022 | S38·E5 | Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens |
| April 25, 2022 | S38·E4 | Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs |
| February 21, 2022 | S38·E3 | Wayne McGregor: Dancing on the Edge |
| February 14, 2022 | S38·E2 | Labi Siffre: This Is My Song |
| February 7, 2022 | S38·E1 | Marian Keyes: My (not so) Perfect Life |
| September 9, 2021 | S37·E4 | Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life |
| September 2, 2021 | S37·E3 | Bernardine Evaristo: Never Give Up |
| March 28, 2021 | S37·E2 | Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting |
| February 9, 2021 | S37·E1 | We'll Be Back? |
| October 11, 2020 | S36·E6 | Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling |
| August 6, 2020 | S36·E5 | My Name Is Kwame |
| July 30, 2020 | S36·E4 | Kate Prince: Every Move She Makes |
| July 23, 2020 | S36·E3 | Lemn Sissay: The Memory of Me |
| July 12, 2020 | S36·E2 | This House Is Full of Music |
| January 2, 2020 | S36·E1 | Lenny Henry: Young, Gifted and Black |
| September 30, 2019 | S35·E7 | EastSide Story |
| July 28, 2019 | S35·E6 | Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device |
| July 14, 2019 | S35·E5 | Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is |
| July 7, 2019 | S35·E4 | Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless |
| February 4, 2019 | S35·E3 | Bill Viola: The Road to St Paul's |
| January 28, 2019 | S35·E2 | Jo Brand: No Holds Barred |
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| January 21, 2019 | S35·E1 | James Graham: In the Room Where It Happens |
| December 19, 2018 | S34·E9 | Andrea Levy: Her Island Story |
| October 30, 2018 | S34·E8 | Becoming Cary Grant |
| October 23, 2018 | S34·E7 | Tracey Emin: Where Do You Draw The Line? |
| October 16, 2018 | S34·E6 | George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up? |
| October 9, 2018 | S34·E5 | Hockney, the Queen and the Royal Peculiar |
| July 29, 2018 | S34·E4 | Tacita Dean: Looking to See |
| July 22, 2018 | S34·E3 | Rose Wylie: This Rose is Blooming |
| May 27, 2018 | S34·E2 | Orhan Pamuk: A Strange Mind |
| May 20, 2018 | S34·E1 | Rupert Everett: Born to be Wilde |
| April 22, 2018 | S33·E7 | Habaneros: You Say You Want a Revolution? Part Two |
| April 21, 2018 | S33·E6 | Habaneros: You Say You Want a Revolution? Part One |
| March 26, 2018 | S33·E5 | Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words |
| March 19, 2018 | S33·E4 | Andrew Lloyd Webber: Memories |
| March 5, 2018 | S33·E3 | Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons |
| February 17, 2018 | S33·E2 | Mel Brooks: Unwrapped |
| December 2, 2017 | S33·E1 | Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room |
| September 11, 2017 | S32·E4 | Cameron Mackintosh: The Musical Man |
| September 4, 2017 | S32·E3 | Alma Deutscher: Finding Cinderella |
| August 28, 2017 | S32·E2 | Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned! |
| July 29, 2017 | S32·E1 | Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures |
| July 15, 2017 | S31·E9 | Chris Ofili: The Caged Bird's Song |
| March 6, 2017 | S31·E8 | Alice Neel: Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde |
| February 28, 2017 | S31·E7 | Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise |
| February 21, 2017 | S31·E6 | She Spoke the Unspeakable |
| January 14, 2017 | S31·E5 | Listen to Me Marlon |
| December 6, 2016 | S31·E4 | The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan |
| November 29, 2016 | S31·E3 | Serial Killers - The Women Who Write Crime Fiction |
| November 22, 2016 | S31·E2 | The Triumph and Laments of William Kentridge |
| October 29, 2016 | S31·E1 | The Seven Killings of Marlon James |
| July 31, 2016 | S30·E4 | Sir Roderick Stewart: Can't Stop Me Now |
| July 26, 2016 | S30·E3 | Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself |
| July 19, 2016 | S30·E2 | Danger! Cornelia Parker |
| July 17, 2016 | S30·E1 | One Night in 2012 - An Imagine Special |
| December 8, 2015 | S29·E7 | Carlos Acosta: Cuba Calls |
| December 1, 2015 | S29·E6 | David Chipperfield: A Place to Be |
| November 24, 2015 | S29·E5 | The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson |
| November 17, 2015 | S29·E4 | The Last Impresario |
| November 10, 2015 | S29·E3 | My Curious Documentary |
| November 3, 2015 | S29·E2 | Antony Gormley: Being Human |
| October 27, 2015 | S29·E1 | Shylock's Ghost |
| July 21, 2015 | S28·E5 | Richard Flanagan: Life After Death |
| July 14, 2015 | S28·E4 | Toni Morrison Remembers |
| July 7, 2015 | S28·E3 | Beware of Mr Baker |
| June 30, 2015 | S28·E2 | Jeff Koons: Diary of a Seducer |
| June 23, 2015 | S28·E1 | Frank Gehry: The Architect Says |
| December 2, 2014 | S27·E7 | Colm Toibin: His Mother's Son |
| November 25, 2014 | S27·E6 | The One and Only Mike Leigh |
| November 18, 2014 | S27·E5 | Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future |
| November 11, 2014 | S27·E4 | Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On |
| November 11, 2014 | S27·E3 | Bette Midler: The Divine Miss M |
| November 4, 2014 | S27·E2 | The Art That Hitler Hated: The Sins of the Fathers |
| October 28, 2014 | S27·E1 | The Art That Hitler Hated |
| June 29, 2014 | S26·E4 | Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar |
| May 27, 2014 | S26·E3 | Philip Roth Unleashed, Part Two |
| May 20, 2014 | S26·E2 | Philip Roth Unleashed, Part One |
| May 18, 2014 | S26·E1 | Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca |
| December 3, 2013 | S25·E6 | Who's Afraid of Machiavelli? |
| November 26, 2013 | S25·E5 | Hitler, the Tiger, and Me |
| November 19, 2013 | S25·E4 | Turning the Art World Inside Out |
| November 12, 2013 | S25·E3 | Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy |
| November 5, 2013 | S25·E2 | Edmund de Waal: Make Pots or Die |
| October 29, 2013 | S25·E1 | Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin' |
| July 30, 2013 | S24·E8 | Zaha Hadid: Who Dares Wins |
| July 24, 2013 | S24·E7 | Woody Allen: A Documentary - Part Two |
| July 23, 2013 | S24·E6 | Woody Allen: A Documentary - Part One |
| July 9, 2013 | S24·E5 | Rod Stewart: Can't Stop Me Now |
| July 2, 2013 | S24·E4 | McCullin |
| June 25, 2013 | S24·E3 | Vivian Maier - Who Took Nanny's Pictures? |
| April 4, 2013 | S24·E2 | David Bowie - Cracked Actor |
| March 28, 2013 | S24·E1 | Beyoncé: Life is But a Dream |
| December 18, 2012 | S23·E9 | A Beauty is Born: Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty |
| December 4, 2012 | S23·E8 | Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me |
| November 27, 2012 | S23·E7 | How Music Makes Us Feel |
| November 20, 2012 | S23·E6 | The Many Lives of William Klein |
| November 12, 2012 | S23·E5 | Lang Lang |
| November 12, 2012 | S23·E4 | Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story |
| November 6, 2012 | S23·E3 | Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective |
| October 16, 2012 | S23·E2 | Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender |
| September 19, 2012 | S23·E1 | The Fatwa - Salman's Story |
| July 24, 2012 | S22·E5 | Dancing with Titian |
| July 17, 2012 | S22·E4 | Glasgow: The Grit and the Glamour |
| July 10, 2012 | S22·E3 | Just One Falsetto |
| July 3, 2012 | S22·E2 | Paul Simon's Graceland - Under African Skies |
| June 26, 2012 | S22·E1 | Theatre of War |
| December 20, 2011 | S21·E9 | The Art Of Stand-Up (Part Two) |
| December 19, 2011 | S21·E8 | The Art Of Stand-Up (Part One) |
| December 13, 2011 | S21·E7 | Books - The Last Chapter? |
| December 6, 2011 | S21·E6 | The Lost Music of Rajasthan |
| November 22, 2011 | S21·E5 | Vidal Sassoon - A Cut Above |
| November 15, 2011 | S21·E4 | Alan Ayckbourn - Greetings from Scarborough |
| November 8, 2011 | S21·E3 | Simon and Garfunkel - The Harmony Game |
| November 1, 2011 | S21·E2 | Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman |
| October 9, 2011 | S21·E1 | U2: From the Sky Down |
| July 26, 2011 | S20·E7 | Iraq in Venice |
| July 19, 2011 | S20·E6 | Harry Nilsson: The Missing Beatle |
| July 12, 2011 | S20·E5 | Lennon: The New York Years |
| July 5, 2011 | S20·E4 | The Pharaohs' Museum on Liberation Square |
| June 28, 2011 | S20·E3 | The Man Who Forgot How to Read and Other Stories |
| April 3, 2011 | S20·E2 | The Trouble with Tolstoy - 2. In Search of Happiness |
| March 27, 2011 | S20·E1 | The Trouble with Tolstoy - 1. At War with Himself |
| December 21, 2010 | S19·E6 | Ray Davies - Imaginary Man |
| December 14, 2010 | S19·E5 | Ben-Hur |
| December 7, 2010 | S19·E4 | Bruce Springsteen: Darkness Revisited |
| November 30, 2010 | S19·E3 | The Weird Adventures of Eadweard Muybridge |
| November 23, 2010 | S19·E2 | Smash His Camera |
| November 16, 2010 | S19·E1 | Ai Weiwei - Without Fear or Favour |
| July 6, 2010 | S18·E4 | Tom Jones - What Good Am I? |
| June 29, 2010 | S18·E3 | Growing Old Disgracefully |
| June 22, 2010 | S18·E2 | Art Is Child's Play |
| June 15, 2010 | S18·E1 | Nigel Kennedy's Polish Adventure |
| May 23, 2010 | S17·E2 | The Stones in Exile |
| April 5, 2010 | S17·E1 | Vincent Van Gogh: Painted with Words |
| December 22, 2009 | S16·E6 | Scrabble - A Night on the Tiles |
| December 15, 2009 | S16·E5 | Placido Domingo: The Time of My Life |
| December 8, 2009 | S16·E4 | Joan Baez... How Sweet the Sound |
| December 1, 2009 | S16·E3 | Own Art |
| November 24, 2009 | S16·E2 | Dame Shirley Bassey: The Girl from Tiger Bay |
| November 17, 2009 | S16·E1 | The Year of Anish Kapoor |
| July 28, 2009 | S15·E8 | Art in Troubled Times: Part II – The Home Front |
| July 25, 2009 | S15·E10 | The Smoking Diaries Update |
| July 21, 2009 | S15·E6 | Art in Troubled Times: A New Deal for Art |
| July 14, 2009 | S15·E5 | The Colourful Mr Eggleston |
| July 7, 2009 | S15·E4 | Rufus Wainwright, Prima Donna |
| June 30, 2009 | S15·E3 | David Hockney: A Bigger Picture |
| June 23, 2009 | S15·E2 | Save the Last Dance for Me |
| April 5, 2009 | S15·E1 | Yes We Can! The Lost Art Of Oratory |
| December 2, 2008 | S14·E10 | Heavy Metal in Baghdad |
| November 25, 2008 | S14·E9 | Richard Serra: Man of Steel |
| November 18, 2008 | S14·E8 | How an Orchestra Saved Venezuela's Children |
| November 11, 2008 | S14·E7 | Let There Be Light |
| October 28, 2008 | S14·E6 | Jay-Z: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered |
| October 21, 2008 | S14·E5 | A Love Story |
| October 19, 2008 | S14·E4 | The Story of the Guitar - This Time it's Personal |
| October 14, 2008 | S14·E3 | Dangerous Liaisons: When Akram met Juliette |
| October 12, 2008 | S14·E2 | The Story of the Guitar - Out of the Frying Pan |
| October 5, 2008 | S14·E1 | The Story of the Guitar - In The Beginning |
| July 8, 2008 | S13·E7 | Love, Loss and Anthony Minghella |
| July 1, 2008 | S13·E6 | Werner Herzog: Beyond Reason |
| June 24, 2008 | S13·E5 | A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami |
| June 17, 2008 | S13·E4 | A Trip to Asia: On the Road with the Berlin Philharmonic |
| June 10, 2008 | S13·E3 | Annie Leibovitz - Life Through a Lens |
| June 3, 2008 | S13·E2 | Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain |
| May 27, 2008 | S13·E1 | Doris Lessing - The Reluctant Heroine |
| March 4, 2008 | S12·E8 | Marc Newson: Urban Spaceman |
| February 26, 2008 | S12·E7 | Richard Rogers, Inside Out |
| February 19, 2008 | S12·E6 | The Secret of Life |
| November 20, 2007 | S12·E5 | How to Get on in the Art World |
| November 13, 2007 | S12·E4 | Louise Bourgeois: Spiderwoman |
| November 6, 2007 | S12·E3 | Helvetica |
| October 30, 2007 | S12·E2 | Bollywood's Big B |
| October 23, 2007 | S12·E1 | Henry Perkins: Bolshoi Boy |
| July 4, 2007 | S11·E5 | Damon and Jamie's Excellent Adventure |
| May 29, 2007 | S11·E4 | It's The Surreal Thing |
| May 22, 2007 | S11·E3 | Scott Walker |
| May 15, 2007 | S11·E2 | Stealing Klimt |
| May 8, 2007 | S11·E1 | Gilbert and George: No Surrender |
| December 27, 2006 | S10·E10 | The Beatles in Love |
| December 19, 2006 | S10·E9 | And Then There Was Television |
| December 19, 2006 | S10·E8 | www.herecomeseverybody.co.uk |
| November 28, 2006 | S10·E7 | Being a Diva |
| November 21, 2006 | S10·E6 | Hans Holbein, International Man of Mystery |
| November 14, 2006 | S10·E5 | Who Cares About Art? |
| November 7, 2006 | S10·E4 | The Movie Brats, Take Two |
| October 31, 2006 | S10·E3 | A Play for Today |
| October 24, 2006 | S10·E2 | Velazquez, The Painter's Painter |
| October 17, 2006 | S10·E1 | Peter Pan, a Hard Act to Follow |
| June 13, 2006 | S9·E4 | A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin |
| June 6, 2006 | S9·E3 | The Ingenious Thomas Heatherwick |
| May 30, 2006 | S9·E2 | Yusuf, the Artist Formerly Known as Cat Stevens |
| May 23, 2006 | S9·E1 | Being Hamlet |
| February 7, 2006 | S8·E4 | Sitting Comfortably |
| January 31, 2006 | S8·E3 | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Studio |
| January 24, 2006 | S8·E2 | Andy Warhol: Denied |
| January 17, 2006 | S8·E1 | Sweet Home New Orleans |
| December 14, 2005 | S7·E4 | Rhythm Is It! |
| December 7, 2005 | S7·E3 | Chuck Close, Close Up |
| November 30, 2005 | S7·E2 | Amos Oz: The Conscience of Israel |
| November 23, 2005 | S7·E1 | Elgar and the Missing Concerto |
| June 29, 2005 | S6·E2 | Frida Kahlo |
| June 22, 2005 | S6·E1 | Fantastic Mr Dahl |
| June 6, 2005 | S6·E3 | Being a Concert Pianist |
| May 25, 2005 | S5·E3 | A Short History of Tall Buildings - Episode 3 |
| May 18, 2005 | S5·E2 | A Short History of Tall Buildings - Episode 2 |
| May 11, 2005 | S5·E1 | A Short History of Tall Buildings - Episode 1 |
| December 22, 2004 | S4·E5 | Antonio Pappano: A Year at the Opera |
| December 15, 2004 | S4·E4 | Marlon Brando |
| December 8, 2004 | S4·E3 | Bruce Nauman: The Godfather of Modern Art |
| December 1, 2004 | S4·E2 | Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson's Smile |
| November 24, 2004 | S4·E1 | Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture |
| July 7, 2004 | S3·E6 | Simon Gray's Smoking Diaries |
| June 30, 2004 | S3·E5 | Unsuitable for Children? |
| June 23, 2004 | S3·E4 | Dirty But Clean Pierre |
| June 16, 2004 | S3·E3 | Saint John Coltrane |
| June 9, 2004 | S3·E2 | Sitting for Lucian Freud |
| June 2, 2004 | S3·E1 | The Mysterious Mr Hopper |
| December 17, 2003 | S2·E6 | An A-Z of the OED |
| December 10, 2003 | S2·E5 | From Pencils to Pixels |
| December 3, 2003 | S2·E4 | The World According to Parr |
| November 26, 2003 | S2·E3 | Entertaining Mr Soane |
…and 9 earlier episodes not shown. Long-running show.
