• 43
    watchers
  • 133
    plays
  • 190
    collected

Imagine...: Season 22

Summer 2014 2014
TV-14

  • 2014-05-17T23:00:00Z on BBC One
  • 50m
  • 5h 7m (4 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary, News
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.

4 episodes

Season Premiere

2014-05-17T23:00:00Z

22x01 Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca

Season Premiere

22x01 Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca

  • 2014-05-17T23:00:00Z1h 45m

As Brazil prepares to host the Fifa World Cup this summer and the Olympic Games in 2016, imagine... explores the cultural and social history of the city of Rio de Janeiro, home to more than six million Carioca.

A city of extremes, Rio is still seen by many as a tropical paradise, but it is also a city divided by class, ravaged by poverty and gun crime. With its roots and rhythms in samba, the music of Rio has directly influenced decades of social and cultural change.

imagine... journeys through an extraordinary city, illustrated and narrated by the music and voices of this Brazilian metropolis.

22x02 Philip Roth Unleashed, Part One

  • 2014-05-19T23:00:00Z1h 5m

After Portnoy's Complaint launched him as a new literary voice, not to mention a scandalous one, Philip Roth went on to be hailed by many as America's greatest living writer. Never afraid to look hard at the extremes of human experience, he has been both consistently controversial and intensely private.
But now, having celebrated his 80th birthday in his home town of Newark, New Jersey, Roth, in conversation with Alan Yentob, is ready to tell the whole story in this special two-part film for imagine... Philip Roth Unleashed.

22x03 Philip Roth Unleashed, Part Two

  • 2014-05-26T23:00:00Z1h 5m

Alan Yentob talks to Philip Roth in the second half of a two-part film.

After his scandalous debut with Portnoy's Complaint, and the intensely personal novels of his early career, Philip Roth turned this same fearless vision to some of the great themes of the American century - civil rights, McCarthyism, the Vietnam war - as his characters become impaled on history.

In a career spanning six decades Roth became one of the most controversial and influential writers of the modern age, and only now, with the advent of his 80th birthday, is he ready to reveal all.

The five surviving members of Monty Python have spent the last 20 years dismissing a reunion as 'absolutely impossible'. Now, it seems, they've changed their minds... In this special edition of imagine... Alan Yentob follows Cleese, Palin, Jones, Gilliam and Idle (collective age 357) as they pursue solo projects in far-flung locations, reflect on old age, and prepare for the shows in London that will bring the final curtain down on Python after 45 years.

Loading...