Imagine (TV series)

List of episodes

• "The Saatchi Phenomenon" – about businessman Charles Saatchi
• "Barbara Hepworth: Shapes Out of Feelings"
• "The Hip Hop Generation"
• "Stella McCartney: Stella's Story"
• "Carlos Acosta: The Reluctant Ballet Dancer"
• "The Portrait of Omai"
• "John Mortimer: Owning Up at 80"

• "The Voice of Bryn Terfel"
• "A Funny Business" – A look at British and American sitcoms
• "John Soane – Entertaining Mr Soane"
• "Martin Parr – The World According to Parr"
• "From Pencils to Pixels" – Celebrating the phenomenon of the animated feature film
• "An A-Z of the OED"

• "Edward Hopper – The Mysterious Mr Hopper"
• "Sitting for Lucian Freud"
• "Saint John Coltrane"
• "Peter Finlay – Dirty But Clean Pierre"
• "Unsuitable for Children?" – Exploring modern children's fiction
• "The Smoking Diaries" – about playwright Simon Gray

• "Arthur Miller – Finishing the Picture"
• "Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson's Smile"
• "Bruce Nauman – The Godfather of Modern Art"
• "Marlon Brando"
• "Antonio Pappano – A Year at the Opera"

• "A Short History of Tall Buildings"

• Fantastic Mr Dahl – about children's author Roald Dahl
• Frida Kahlo
• "Being a Concert Pianist"

• "Elgar and the Missing Concerto"
• "Amos Oz – The Conscience of Israel"
• "Chuck Close – Close Up"
• "Rhythm Is It!"

• "Sweet Home New Orleans" – examining the city's musical heritage
• "Andy Warhol – Warhol Denied"
• "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Studio"
• "Sitting Comfortably" – Tracing the changing styles of the modern chair

• "Being Hamlet" – about actor Wayne Cater as he prepares to play Hamlet
• "The Artist Formerly Known As Cat Stevens" – telling the story of pop star Cat Stevens and how he became Yusuf Islam.
• "The Ingenious Thomas Heatherwick"
• "A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin"

• "Peter Pan: a Hard Act to Follow"
• "Velazquez, the Painter's Painter"
• "A Play for Today" – about Jeremy Weller's play The Foolish Young Man
• "The Movie Brats, Take Two" – about a group of maverick American directors
• "Who Cares About Art?" – follows the work of five art curators
• "Hans Holbein, International Man of Mystery"
• "Being a Diva" – about operatic divas
• www.herecomeseverybody.co.uk – a history of the World Wide Web
• "And Then There Was Television" – about the early days of television

• "The Beatles in Love" – documenting the creation of The Beatles project Love

• "Gilbert and George" – No Surrender
• "Stealing Klimt" – the story of a 90-year-old's struggle to recover her family's paintings.
• "Scott Walker"
• "It's the Surreal Thing" – a history of Surrealism

• "Damon and Jamie's Excellent Adventure" – documentary about cartoon pop group Gorillaz' foray into opera

• "Henry Perkins: Bolshoi Boy" – following a British boy at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy
• "Bollywood's Big B" – a profile of Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan
• "Helvetica"
• "Louise Bourgeois: Spiderwoman" –
• "How to Get on in the Art World" – featuring material on the Frieze Art Fair
• "The Secret of Life" – looking at the popularity of self-help books
• "Richard Rogers, Inside Out"
• "Marc Newson: Urban Spaceman"

• "Doris Lessing – The Hostess and The Alien"
• "Oliver Sacks – Tales of Music and The Brain"
• "Annie Leibovitz – Life Through a Lens"
• "A Trip to Asia: On the Road with the Berlin Philharmonic"
• "A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami"
• "Werner Herzog – Beyond Reason"
• "Love, Loss and Anthony Minghella"

• "The Story of the Guitar – In the Beginning"
• "The Story of the Guitar – Out of the Frying Pan"
• "Dangerous Liaisons: When Akram Met Juliette"
• "The Story of the Guitar – This Time It's Personal"
• "A Love Story"
• "Jay-Z: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered"
• "Let There Be Light"
• "How an Orchestra Saved Venezuela's Children"
• "Richard Serra: Man of Steel"
• "Heavy Metal in Baghdad"

• "Save the Last Dance for Me: The Company of Elders"
• "David Hockney – A Bigger Picture"
• "Rufus Wainwright – Prima Donna"
• "William Eggleston – The Colourful Mr Eggleston"
• "Art in Troubled Times: A New Deal for Art"
• "Art in Troubled Times: The Home Front"

• "The Year of Anish Kapoor"
• "Dame Shirley Bassey – The Girl from Tiger Bay"
• "Own Art" – looking at an Arts Council scheme that enables people from all walks of life to buy a piece of art
• "Joan Baez – How Sweet the Sound"
• "Placido Domingo - The Time of My Life"
• "Scrabble – A Night on the Tiles"

• "Vincent Van Gogh: Painted with Words"
• "The Rolling Stones – The Stones in Exile"

• "Nigel Kennedy's Polish Adventure"
• "Art Is Child's Play"
• "Diana Athill – Growing Old Disgracefully"
• "Tom Jones – What Good Am I?"

• "Ai Weiwei – Without Fear or Favour"
• "Ron Galella – Smash His Camera"
• "The Weird Adventures of Eadweard Muybridge"
• "Ben Hur in Bath"
• "Ray Davies – Imaginary Man"

• "At War with Himself"
• "In Search of Happiness"

• "The Man Who Forgot How to Read and Other Stories"
• "The Pharaohs' Museum on Liberation Square"
• "Lennon: The New York Years"
• "Harry Nilsson: The Missing Beatle"
• "Iraq in Venice"
• "U2: From the Sky Down"

• "Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
• "Simon & Garfunkel – The Harmony Game"
• "Alan Ayckbourn – Greetings from Scarborough"
• "Vidal Sassoon – A Cut Above"
• "The Lost Music of Rajasthan"
• "Books – The Last Chapter?"
• "The Art of Stand-Up – Part One"
• "The Art of Stand-Up – Part Two"

• "Theatre of War"
• "Paul Simon's Graceland – Under African Skies"
• "Just One Falsetto"
• "Glasgow: The Grit and The Glamour"
• "Dancing with Titian"

• "The Fatwa – Salman's Story"
• "Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender"
• "Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective"
• "Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story"
• "The Many Lives of William Klein"
• "How Music Makes Us Feel"
• "Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me"
• "A Beauty is Born: Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty"

• "Beyoncé: Life Is But a Dream"
• "David Bowie – Cracked Actor"
• "Vivian Maier – Who Took Nanny's Pictures?"

• "Edmund de Waal: Make Pots or Die"
• "Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy"
• "Turning the Art World Inside Out"
• "Judith Kerr: Hitler, the Tiger and Me"
• "Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?"

• "Rio 50 Degrees: Carry On CaRIOca"
• "Philip Roth Unleashed"
• "Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar"

• "The Art That Hitler Hated: The Sins of the Fathers"
• "Bette Midler: The Divine Miss M"
• "Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On"
• "Anselm Kiefer: Remembering The Future"
• "The One and Only Mike Leigh"
• "Colm Toibin: His Mother's Son"

• "Frank Gehry: The Architect Says, Why Can't I?"
• "Jeff Koons: Diary of A Seducer"
• "Beware of Mr Baker"
• "Toni Morrison Remembers"
• "Richard Flanagan: Life After Death"

• "Shylock's Ghost"
• "Antony Gormley: Being Human"
• "My Curious Documentary"
• "The Last Impresario"
• "The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson"
• "David Chipperfield: A Place to Be"
• "Carlos Acosta: Cuba Calls"

• "One Night in 2012"
• "DANGER! Cornelia Parker"
• "Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself"
• "Sir Roderick Stewart: Can't Stop Me Now"

• "The Handmade Films of William Kentridge - Part 1"
• "The Handmade Films of William Kentridge - Part 2"

• "The Seven Killings of Marlon James"
• "The Triumph and Laments of William Kentridge"
• "Serial Killers - The Women Who Write Crime Fiction"
• "The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan"
• "Listen to Me Marlon"

• "She Spoke the Unspeakable"
• "Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise"
• "Alice Neel: Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde"
• "Chris Ofili - The Caged Bird's Song"

• "Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures"
• "Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned!"
• "Alma Deutscher: Finding Cinderella"
• "Cameron Mackintosh: The Musical Man"

• "Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room"
• "Mel Brooks: Unwrapped"
• "Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons"
• "Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words"
• "Andrew Lloyd Webber: Memories"
• "Habaneros: You Say You Want a Revolution? Part One"
• "Habaneros: You Say You Want a Revolution? Part Two"

• "Rupert Everett: Born to be Wilde"
• "Orhan Pamuk: A Strange Mind"
• "Rose Wylie: This Rose Is Blooming"
• "Tacita Dean: Looking to See"
• "Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar"
• "George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?"
• "Tracey Emin: Where Do You Draw the Line?"
• "Becoming Cary Grant"
• "Andrea Levy: Her Island Story"

• "James Graham: In the Room Where It Happens"
• "Jo Brand: No Holds Barred"
• "Bill Viola: The Road to St Paul's"
• "Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless"
• "Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is"
• "Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device"
• "EastSide Story"

• "This House is Full of Music"
• "Lemn Sissay: The Memory of Me"
• "Kate Prince: Every Move She Makes"
• "Kwame Kwei-Armah:... My Name is Kwame"
• "Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling"

• "We'll Be Back"
• "Bernardine Evaristo: Never Give Up"
• "Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life"
• "Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting"

• "Marian Keyes: My Perfect Life"
• "Labi Siffre: This Is My Song"
• "Wayne McGregor: Dancing on the Edge"
• "Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs"
• "Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens"

• "Stephen Frears: Director for Hire"
• "The Factory: Made in Manchester"
• "Russell T. Davies: The Doctor and Me"
• "French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter"

• "Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now"

• "The Academy of Armando"

• 2006: "Imagine... A Mildly Amusing Panel Show" – a special highlights edition of Never Mind the Buzzcocks, a parody of the Imagine series, presented by Yentob himself.
• 2024: "Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly" – featuring clips from Rushdie's 2012 appearance as well as a new interview from Yentob, broadcast on BBC2 as a standalone documentary.