Alan Yentob - Movie Mafia

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Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life

Tom Stoppard is perhaps the world’s leading, funniest and cleverest playwright. Ever since he hit th...

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Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar

David Hockney undertakes a commission to design and install a stained-glass window in Westminster Ab...

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The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan

One of the most provocative and elusive figures in contemporary art finds himself the subject of Mau...

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The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge

Alan Yentob joins South African artist William Kentridge as he prepares an epic frieze along the ban...

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Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins

Alan Yentob profiles the most successful female architect there has ever been, the late Zaha Hadid, ...

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Antony Gormley: Being Human

Alan Yentob meets sculptor Antony Gormley, creator of the iconic Angel of the North, and uncovers th...

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Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned

For decades, Margaret Atwood has been universally acclaimed as Canada's greatest living writer. Fear...

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Mel Brooks Strikes Back!

Mel Brooks appears on stage with Alan Yentob, the creative director for the BBC, at the Geffen Theat...

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imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs

Miriam Margolyes is one of Britain’s best loved and most provocative actresses. Across her eclectic ...

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Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens

Twenty-something virtuoso multi-instrumentalist, singer and arranger Jacob Collier has managed to ou...

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Labi Siffre: This Is My Song

Alan Yentob presents a film exploring the life and work of the Ivor Novello Award-winning black Brit...

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A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas

Dream city, Sin City, a mirage in the desert, Las Vegas is a film set in its own right, a piece of p...

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imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me

imagine... follows celebrated British TV writer Russell T Davies as he prepares to return as the sho...

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imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester

imagine... tells the story of Aviva Studios, Manchester’s colossal new cultural venue, and goes behi...

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imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter

imagine... profiles the UK’s most successful double act of the last 40 years, French & Saunders, exp...

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Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles

Scrabble is experiencing a renaissance. The younger generation have rediscovered the game online - t...

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Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman

Artist Grayson Perry has been working behind the scenes at the British Museum to stage his most ambi...

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Books: The Last Chapter?

Will the rise of electronic books mark the final chapter in the love story between traditional books...

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Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective

Crime writer Ian Rankin invites BBC to follow him as he writes his next novel, and as he ponders wha...

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Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture

Renowned American playwright Arthur Miller discusses his life and work with Alan Yentob....

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Turning the Art World Inside Out

After the success of recent shows in Venice, London and Paris, interest in `Outsider Art' has never ...

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The World According to Parr

Alan Yentob explores the work of Martin Parr, considered to be the most influential photographer of ...

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How to Get on in the Art World

Alan Yentob immerses himself in the Art World visiting the 5th London Frieze Art Fair in October 200...

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A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami

A 2008 documentary about Japanese author Haruki Murakami...

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Shylock's Ghost

As Man Booker Prize-winning writer Howard Jacobson retells The Merchant of Venice, 400 years after S...

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Mini: A Life Revisited

1975 documentary about 11-year-old serial arsonist Michael 'Mini' Cooper, followed by Cooper and the...

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Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now

Featuring exclusive access to their recent tour and their new album, this documentary reveals the fa...

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Richard Serra: Man of Steel

Sculptor and giant of modern art Richard Serra discusses his extraordinary life and work. A creator...

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Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly

Salman Rushdie speaks to Alan Yentob about the devastating knife attack he was subjected to in 2022,...

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Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is

Alan Yentob meets Harlem-born artist, author and activist Faith Ringgold as she prepares for her Lon...

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Goodbye Television Centre

After 53 years Television Centre, the BBC's TV headquarters, is closing its doors and Michael Grade ...

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One Night In 2012

Co-produced by Rogan Productions and BBC Studios. London. The Summer of 2012. As rehearsals take pl...

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A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James

2015 was a momentous year for novelist Marlon James. He became the first Jamaican writer to win the ...

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Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil

Following the recent death of Ken Russell, Alan Yentob looks back over the career of the flamboyant ...

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Mike Leigh: Making Plays

Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays....

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The One and Only Mike Leigh

In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Par...

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Fantastic Mr. Dahl

Documentary about author Roald Dahl, produced for the British television series Imagine....

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Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room

An intimate portrait of British sculptor Rachel Whiteread as she unpacks her life's work for a major...

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Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain

Alan Yentob talks to Dr. Oliver Sacks about his latest book 'Musicophila: Tales of Music and the Bra...

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Hitler, the Tiger and Me

Beautiful story about effervescent ninety-year-old children's book author and illustrator Judith Ker...

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Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"

A fascinating look at the colorful career of architect Frank Gehry who despite being well into his e...

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A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin

Alan Yentob takes the artist Howard Hodgkin away from his Bloomsbury studio to India to discover mor...

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Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar

Alan Yentob meets the five surviving members of Monty Python - John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jon...

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Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

At the age of 91, Mel Brooks is unstoppable, with his musical "Young Frankenstein" opening to great ...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself

On the brink of the Depression in 1929, Georgia O'Keeffe - America's first great modernist painter -...

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Jo Brand: No Holds Barred

Alan Yentob looks into the life of comedian Jo Brand, marking a diverse career which began in 1980s ...

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David Chipperfield: A Place to Be

Alan Yentob talks to British architect David Chipperfield about his breakthrough in Berlin, his love...

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The Year of Anish Kapoor

Alan Yentob meets one of Britain's most accomplished and popular sculptors, Anish Kapoor, known for ...

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BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M

For five decades the woman they call the Divine Miss M has forged a path which has taken her from a ...

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Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless

Edna O’Brien is one of the greatest literary talents and rule breakers of her generation. In 1960, h...

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Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?

The incredible story of a mysterious nanny who died in 2009 leaving behind a secret hoard - thousand...

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The Seven Year Hitch

This documentary looks at executive producer Philip Segal’s seven-year quest to return Doctor Who to...

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Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device

Olafur Eliasson has been pushing the limits of the sublime and the spectacular in his art for almost...

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Ray Davies: Imaginary Man

Alan Yentob meets Ray Davies, the creative powerhouse behind The Kinks and author of some of the bes...

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Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons

Alan Yentob spends time with Philip Pullman in Oxford, discovering how the ex-teacher became an accl...

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The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge

Pioneer photographer, forefather of cinema, showman, murderer - Eadweard Muybridge was a Victorian e...

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Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca

A look at Rio's cultural, political and technical revolutions since the 1970s to 2011...

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Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling

Performance artist Marina Abramovic invites Alan Yentob into her home, opens her archive, travels to...

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Sweet Home New Orleans

Could New Orleans's days as a great musical powerhouse be coming to an end? As Alan Yentob traces th...

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Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?

Famous for lines like 'It is better to be feared than loved', Machiavelli's notorious book, The Prin...

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Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting

A revealing profile of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of the...

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Van Gogh: Painted with Words

A drama-documentary presented by Alan Yentob, with Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role. Every word...

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Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me

Nearly 30 years after her debut novel, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson returns wi...

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The Academy of Armando

Alan Yentob profiles the stellar career of one of the great satirists of our age, Armando Iannucci, ...

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When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville

As a part of a tribute night to broadcaster and television executive Alan Yentob, he interviews lead...

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Gilbert and George: No Surrender

Alan Yentob meets the Turner Prize winning artists Gilbert & George at home. Over the last 40 years,...

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Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future

There is no-one quite like Anselm Kiefer. Having achieved fame and notoriety in equal measure in the...

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George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?

He has been crowned with every laurel in contemporary classical music, composed operas which play on...

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The Trouble with Tolstoy

The Life of Tolstoy, from his gambling and youthful escapades, to his powerful religious conversion ...

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