imagine... - Season 16

imagine... - Season 16

Season 16

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DatesNov 17, 2009 - Dec 22, 2009
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The Year of Anish Kapoor
Season 16Episode 190 min

The Year of Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation, known for works of staggering complexity and scale. He now faces his biggest challenge yet as the first living British artist to have a solo show occupying the entire Royal Academy gallery. His response is a series of audacious installations.

With exclusive access to his studio, Alan Yentob follows him through a period of intense productivity. Kapoor talks candidly about his childhood in India, his early years as an artist and his creative process.

An insight into one of Britain's most accomplished and popular sculptors.

Nov 17, 2009
Dame Shirley Bassey: The Girl from Tiger Bay
Season 16Episode 290 min

Dame Shirley Bassey: The Girl from Tiger Bay

Alan Yentob gains an insight into the creative world of Dame Shirley Bassey. After a triumphant Glastonbury appearance and a major illness at the age of 72, Dame Shirley tentatively re-enters the ring toconfront her life in song.

Some of the best contemporary songwriters, including Gary Barlow, the Pet Shop Boys, Manic Street Preachers, Rufus Wainwright, Richard Hawley and KT Tunstall, along with James Bond composer John Barry and lyricist Don Black, have interpreted her life through song for an album produced by David Arnold.

The songs frame and explore the myth of Shirley Bassey, the girl from Tiger Bay, and the voice and the desire are not found wanting. A backstory profiling Shirley, complete with archive of her greatest performances, tells the story of what makes her the living legend that she is today.

Nov 24, 2009
Own Art
Season 16Episode 390 min

Own Art

There is a new breed of art collector on the block. No longer do you need to be fabulously wealthy to afford a Blake, a Banksy or a Hockney over your fireplace. Imagine meets a variety of people who are part ofa small revolution in the art world. A factory worker, a pig farmer and a policeman are just some of those whose lives have been changed by an Arts Council scheme called Own Art, which has enabled them to take out an interest free loan to buy contemporary artwork.

Dec 1, 2009
Joan Baez... How Sweet the Sound
Season 16Episode 490 min

Joan Baez... How Sweet the Sound

The American singer-songwriter Joan Baez talks, more candidly then ever, about her personal life and a career spanning 50 years.

Political ally to Martin Luther King, lover to Bob Dylan, she was the most admired and desired performer of her generation, using her unique voice to get her message of peace and racial equality heard around the world.

Baez tells about her unconventional upbringing with Quaker parents, her near-breakdown due to stage fright, and her complicated relationships with lover Dylan, husband David Harris and son Gabe.

Admirers David Crosby, Steve Earle, Bob Dylan and Jesse Jackson talk about her uncontested status as Queen of Folk and tireless champion for human rights.

Dec 8, 2009
Placido Domingo: The Time of My Life
Season 16Episode 590 min

Placido Domingo: The Time of My Life

He has performed in 3,400 performances in over 130 roles, conducted upwards of 450 performances, and is general director of both the Washington National and Los Angeles Operas.

Placido Domingo is at the peak of opera, and now at the age of 68, he has embarked on a role he has long dreamed of performing - Simon Boccanegra - his first as baritone in an opera.

Exploring with him his astonishing career as a tenor leading up to this moment, the film looks back at his most famous opera roles and examines how Domingo won BBC Music Magazine's title of Greatest Singer in History.

Dec 15, 2009
Scrabble - A Night on the Tiles
Season 16Episode 690 min

Scrabble - A Night on the Tiles

Scrabble is experiencing a renaissance. The younger generation have rediscovered the game online - through the copyright busting Scrabulous - and they're having night after night on the tiles.

LANA BOTNEY sets out to discover why the word game leaves us spellbound, tracing its surprising history, meeting the American tournament Word Freaks, and paying a visit to the SAS-style training camp that the Nigerian government trains their players at.

With triple word score contributions from Moby, Richard Herring, Lynn Barber and Noreena Hertz.

Dec 22, 2009

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