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Keyword ResultAll ContentHeavy Metal in BaghdadÌýHeavy Metal in Baghdad Posted: 2nd Dec 2008Following the struggles of Iraq’s one and only metal band, Acrassicauda, this rock doc both celebrates the liberating power of rock music and tells its own story about the nightmare of daily life in the war torn city. Richard Serra: Man of SteelÌýRichard Serra: Man of Steel Posted: 25th Nov 2008He is Richard Serra: creator of enormous, immediately identifiable steel sculptures that terrify, captivate and bewilder. In tonight’s Imagine, he discusses his life and work. How an Orchestra saved Venezuela's childrenÌýHow an Orchestra saved Venezuela's children Posted: 18th Nov 2008For more than 30 years an extraordinary music project has been running in Venezuela in an attempt to transform the lives of the nation’s poorest children. Let There Be LightÌýLet There Be Light Posted: 11th Nov 2008In Imagine… Let there Be Light Alan Yentob has some extraordinary encounters with the artists for whom light is both source and inspiration for their art. Jay-Z: He Came, He Saw, He ConqueredÌýEpisode Guide: Jay - Z : He Came, He Saw, He Conquered Posted: 22nd Oct 2008In this Imagine, Alan Yentob explores the life and work of the chart topping rapper and multi-millionaire business mogul Jay-Z. A Love StoryÌýEpisode Guide: A Love Story Posted: 17th Oct 2008Imagine examines what makes a great love story this week and looks at the books, films and pop songs that have tackled the thorny issue of love, pain and desire. Dangerous Liaisons: When Akram met JulietteÌýEpisode Guide: Dangerous Liaisons - When Akram met Juliette Posted: 14th Oct 2008Imagine returns with a new series The Story of the GuitarÌýEpisode Guide: The Story of the Guitar Posted: 6th Oct 2008Alan Yentob embarks on a three-part personal journey to discover how the guitar became the world's favourite musical instrument. Love, Loss And Anthony MinghellaÌýEpisode Guide: Anthony Minghella Posted: 8th Jul 2008A tribute to Oscar-winning director and writer Anthony Minghella who died in March. Werner Herzog: Beyond ReasonÌýEpisode Guide: Werner Herzog Posted: 1st Jul 2008Alan Yentob meets the renowned German film director Werner Herzog in this week's Imagine... A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search Of Haruki MurakamiÌýEpisode Guide: Haruki Murakami Posted: 24th Jun 2008Alan Yentob goes in search of the myth of Haruki Murakami, the notoriously publicity-shy author of international bestsellers such as Kafka on the Shore and Norwegian Wood. A Trip To Asia: On The Road With The Berlin Philharmonic ÌýEpisode Guide: A Trip To Asia Posted: 17th Jun 2008A film following Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra musicians on their debut tour as they compete to impress conductor Simon Rattle. Annie Leibovitz: Life Through A LensÌýEpisode Guide: Annie Leibovitz Posted: 10th Jun 2008A version of the cinema release Annie Leibovitz: Life Through A Lens, documenting the celebrity photographer. Oliver Sacks: Tales Of Music And The BrainÌýOliver Sacks: Tales Of Music And The Brain Posted: 30th May 2008Alan Yentob meets neurologist and writer Dr Oliver Sacks, who has made the study of the brain his life's work. ÌýAbout Imagine... Posted: 30th May 2008Imagine... aims to capture the power and effect of the arts and the people who have changed our way of looking at the world. Doris Lessing: The Hostess and The AlienÌýEpisode Guide: Doris LessingPosted: 27th May 2008Alan Yentob meets Doris Lessing, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature, to talk about a life of writing. Marc Newson: Urban SpacemanÌýEpisode Guide: Marc Newson: Urban SpacemanPosted: 27th Feb 2008Alan Yentob meets the industrial designer Marc Newson, whose latest project is a suborbital jet that just might be the future of long-distance travel. Richard Rogers Inside OutÌýEpisode Guide: Richard Rogers Inside OutPosted: 21st Feb 2008Alan Yentob takes the multi-award winning architect Richard Rogers back to some of the landmark buildings he has designed, from the Pompidou Centre to Lloyds of London. The Secret of Life ÌýEpisode Guide: The Secret of LifePosted: 13th Feb 2008Why are self-help books so popular? What are we looking for? Are we all desperate? Alan Yentob goes in search of self-help. How To Get On In The Art WorldÌýDownload Your Own Jake & Dinos Chapman ArtworkPosted: 20th Nov 2007To coincide with the episode How To Get On In The Art World, Jake and Dinos Chapman made an art work for readers to download. How To Get On In The Art WorldÌýPreview: Jake and Dinos Chapman Art GiveawayPosted: 19th Nov 2007At 10.35pm on Tuesday 20th November 2007 Jake and Dinos Chapman will be giving away an exclusive piece of art. Come back to download your free copy. How To Get On In The Art WorldÌýEpisode Guide: How To Get On In The Art WorldPosted: 16th Nov 2007As investment in the art market continues to rise, Imagine... pays a visit to Frieze Art Fair to meet some of the artists, collectors and gallerists behind this lucrative world. Louise Bourgeois, SpiderwomanÌýEpisode Guide: Louise Bourgeois, SpiderwomanPosted: 12th Nov 2007Louise Bourgeois, nearly a century old, is still making art today. As the Tate Modern holds a major retrospective of her work, Imagine... visits the prolific artist at her home in New York. HelveticaÌýEpisode Guide: HelveticaPosted: 5th Nov 2007The film tells the story of how a typeface drawn by a little-known Swiss designer in 1957 became one of the most popular ways for us to communicate. Bollywood's Big BÌýEpisode Guide: Bollywood's Big BPosted: 29th Oct 2007Alan Yentob meets the world’s biggest movie star: Amitabh Bachchan, otherwise known as 'The Big B', on the set of a new version of "Sholay". The Bolshoi BoyÌýEpisode Guide: The Bolshoi BoyPosted: 22nd Oct 2007Teenager Henry Perkins is one of our brightest ballet talents. Imagine... follows him during an intense and difficult first year at The Bolshoi, the world's best ballet school. ÌýGallery: Monkey Opening Night PreviewPosted: 29th Jun 2007Flying zombies, spider women, Princess Iron Fan... See images of the full dress rehearsal of the hotly anticipated opera, Monkey, Journey To The West. ÌýVideo: Monkeying AroundPosted: 27th Jun 2007Limb contortions, plate spinning, rope dangling, human pyramids... Watch the acrobats hard at work during rehearsals for Monkey, Journey To The West. ÌýVideo: Damon's Musical JourneyPosted: 25th Jun 2007Watch Damon Albarn, Blur front man and brain behind Gorillaz, on the process of writing the opera Monkey, Journey To The West. ÌýVideo: Jamie Hewlett's Monkey MemoriesPosted: 25th Jun 2007"Friday night, school's finished, watch Monkey." Watch artist Jamie Hewlett share some of his designs for the character Monkey. ÌýVideo: Chen Shi-Zheng's Dream WorldPosted: 25th Jun 2007The director of Monkey, Journey To The West, Chen Shi-Zheng, on his first Monkey encounter. ÌýGallery: Monkey PracticePosted: 22nd Jun 2007Monkey, Journey To The West will star more than 40 Chinese acrobats, martial artists and vocalists. See a sneak preview of the rehearsals. ÌýGallery: Monkey TrainPosted: 20th Jun 2007Celebrating the upcoming opera Monkey, Journey to the West, Gorillaz's artist Jamie "Tank Girl" Hewlett is sending a train of monkeys cross country… ÌýTracks: It's The Surreal ThingPosted: 6th Jun 2007Listen to samples of tracks featured in Imagine... It's The Surreal Thing. Including Kid 606's Phoenix Riddim and Bumble Boogie by Maurice Horhut. ÌýGallery: "isms" and "wasms"Posted: 30th May 2007"Surrealism is the spirit of the dream coupled with reality." Read thoughts on Surrealism by people including George Melly, Grayson Perry and Philippe Starck. ÌýVideo: A New Way Of JugglingPosted: 30th May 2007The Surrealists enjoyed subverting ordinary ways of doing things. Watch Alan Yentob's New Way Of Juggling. ÌýGallery: Inside SurrealismPosted: 30th May 2007See "marvellous and beautiful" images of the Surrealist Group Inside the Central Office of Surrealist Research and images by Marcel Duchamp, Rene Magritte and others. ÌýVideo: Limbo-LandPosted: 30th May 2007Watch artist Zoe Walker's tragicomic and surreal attempt to launch a handmade moon into the night sky. ÌýGallery: A Dream-Like JourneyPosted: 30th May 2007See images from the making of Alan Yentob's dream-like journey, Imagine... it's the surreal thing, into the world of the Surreal. ÌýGallery: Exquisite CorpsePosted: 29th May 2007We asked artists including Grayson Perry, George Melly and Philippe Starck to create an Exquisite Corpse exclusively for Imagine... See the art work. ÌýVideo: Proverbs For TodayPosted: 29th May 2007Watch Alan Yentob offer a surreal twist on Proverbs For Today. ÌýVideo: A Succinct Lexicon of EroticismPosted: 29th May 2007"Kink, lesbianise, masturbate." In their quest to subvert all things the Surrealists even managed to make sign language dirty. Watch as Alan Yentob delivers a Succinct Lexicon of Eroticism. ÌýVideo: How To Be A SurrealistPosted: 29th May 2007"The mad beast of custom must be hunted down!" the Surrealists declared of the conventions of art and life. Watch our guide on How To Be A Surrealist. ÌýGallery: Map of an EnglishmanPosted: 24th May 2007Anger, Sex, Dementia, Cheerleader... Take a look at artist Grayson Perry's extraordinary map of his own mind, Map of an Englishman. ÌýVideo: C'etait Un RendezvousPosted: 24th May 2007Watch an extended clip of the cult French driving film C'etait un Rendezvous, as used in Imagine…it's the surreal thing. ÌýVideo: Listening To ScottPosted: 22nd May 2007Watch musicians Jarvis Cocker, Dot Allison, Johnny Marr, Damon Albarn, Alison Goldfrapp, Sting and others comment on Scott Walker's early work. ÌýTracks: Scott WalkerPosted: 21st May 2007Listen to samples from tracks featured in Scott Walker, including The Electrician by The Walker Brothers and Jesse from Scott Walker's album The Drift. ÌýVideo: Scott Walker's Pork PercussionPosted: 18th May 2007Watch Scott Walker on the song Clara, inspired by the execution of Mussolini, along with rehearsals of Walker instructing his percussionist how to punch raw pork. ÌýEpisode Guide: Damon and Jamie's Excellent AdventurePosted: 17th May 2007Alan Yentob speaks exclusively with Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett as they embark on a new creative endeavour and their first collaboration outside the Gorillaz partnership. ÌýMaria Vs the NazisPosted: 15th May 2007Martin Smith, writer of Stealing Klimt, tells of his involvement in the story of Maria Altmann, and her fight to reclaim her family’s stolen legacy. ÌýVideo: "The Greatest Theft In History"Posted: 14th May 2007Watch a preview of Stealing Klimt, the dramatic story of how the Nazis stole Klimt's masterpiece from Maria Altmann's family and her desperate struggle to reclaim it years later. ÌýGallery: The Stolen PaintingsPosted: 14th May 2007"The paintings were taken out of my uncle's house and stolen," recounts Maria Altmann. See the paintings which were stolen by the Nazis in 1938. ÌýVideo: Dance with Gilbert and GeorgePosted: 9th May 2007Watch Gilbert and George recreate their famous Bend It dance, with your choice of soundtracks, including Green Onions and Just The Two Of Us. ÌýExclusive Art: PlanedPosted: 8th May 2007While filming Imagine... Gilbert and George created a unique piece of art for readers to download. ÌýVideo: The Singing LobsterPosted: 8th May 2007Watch Gilbert and George show Alan Yentob their treasured singing lobster. ÌýVideo: "Spice Boys"Posted: 8th May 2007"All Mouth And No Trousers." Gilbert and George read some of their favourite newspaper headlines about themselves. ÌýVideo: "My sister Lilly is a whore down Piccadilly..."Posted: 8th May 2007"My mother is another down The Strand..." Gilbert and George talk about the street where they live in a clip only available on this website. ÌýVideo: Sexual TownscapePosted: 8th May 2007Gilbert and George take Alan Yentob around their recent Tate Modern exhibition, showing him work inspired by East End grafitti and personal ads. ÌýVideo: "I Love The Burnt Sienna"Posted: 8th May 2007Watch Gilbert and George as they make a piece of art exclusively for Imagine... ÌýEpisode Guide: No SurrenderPosted: 4th May 2007"All the hidden remarks - ‘the curiously besuited couple’, 'the tedious twosome’ - that’s all coded language for ‘I’d prefer not to have two poofs exhibiting in this gallery’." ÌýTracks: Nice PeoplePosted: 3rd May 2007Listen to tracks featured in Gilbert and George: No Surrender, including Flanagan and Allen's 'Nice People'. ÌýEpisode Guide: Stealing KlimtPosted: 3rd May 2007The Golden Portrait, one of the world's most expensive paintings, was stolen by the Nazis in WWII. Maria Altmann recounts the dramatic struggle to recover her family’s stolen belongings. ÌýEpisode Guide: Scott WalkerPosted: 3rd May 2007With his life story told by the likes of Julian Cope, Goldfrapp and Marc Almond, Imagine… gains a unique insight into the life of the enigmatic figure Scott Walker. ÌýEpisode Guide: It's The Surreal ThingPosted: 3rd May 2007Grayson Perry, Marcel Dzama and Michel Gondry, amongst others, join Imagine… on a dreamlike journey into today’s surreal unknown. |
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