He has been crowned with every laurel in contemporary classical music, composed operas which play on the world’s most illustrious stages and been knighted for his services to music. Yet Sir George Benjamin is still relatively little known outside the classical world. Imagine… sets that straight. Intimate and humorous, this film tracks the creation of Read More

Turkey’s best-known writer, the Nobel Prize-winning Orhan Pamuk, glories in his city of Istanbul, which in his lifetime has grown from two to fifteen million people. Despite political controversy which nearly forced him into exile, he continues to live in the city which feeds his novels. They evoke the lost world of his own eccentric Read More

This is the story of Boris Pahor, at 106 the oldest known survivor of the Nazi concentration camps. A Slovenian from Trieste, Pahor wrote his novel Necropolis about his time in Natzweiler camp for political prisoners, little known but deadly: almost half of the 57,000 prisoners interned there died. Although it was the first camp Read More

An intimate portrait of British sculptor Rachel Whiteread as she unpacks her life’s work for a major retrospective at Tate Britain in London. Though she rose to prominence with the YBA generation of Young British Artists, Rachel Whiteread was always something of an outsider. Her work rolex datejust rolex calibre 2836 2813 m126233 0023 mens Read More

Comedian Barry Humphries explains his lifelong passion for the powerful and transgressive music and art of Germany and Austria after the First World War, and explores what happened to it under Hitler. ‘fascinating …a vivid account of what these artists meant to him, and their value to the world … A moving film’The Independent The Read More

The Egyptian author Nawal El Saadawi is a global legend, as outspoken, hilarious and totally un-self-censored at 85 as she ever was, she remains a force of nature. Imagine… visits her at home in Cairo and travels with her to the village where she was born. A writer of over 50 books and a winner Read More

On the brink of the Depression in 1929, Georgia O’Keeffe – America’s first great modernist painter – headed west. In the bright light of the New Mexico desert, she forged an independent life and found the solitude she needed for her truly original art. The photographs taken of her by her older lover clone rolex Read More

Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison is America’s first lady of literature. Her books encompass black American history but live and breathe in the present, rich in vivid characters, haunted by ghosts. Born poor in Ohio in 1931, she now lives in New York. She tells Alan Yentob how her father hated whites so much he Read More

Gigantic balloon dogs, rows of vacuum cleaners, the colourful, the commonplace, the shiny and ephemeral – American artist Jeff Koons makes ‘poor’ objects into something rich people desire. As his retrospective travels from the Whitney Museum in New York to the Pompidou in Paris, and now the Guggenheim in Bilbao, imagine… examines the controversial artist. Read More

A fascinating look at the colourful career of architect Frank Gehry who despite being well into his eighties remains one of the world’s most celebrated and famously provocative creative forces. From the iconic Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao to LA’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, Gehry’s factorybv.com buildings both intrigue and ignite. For Frank, rules are there to Read More

A moving tribute to the teenage heroes of the Great War. With as many as 250,000 boys under the age of 18 having served in the British Army during World War One. Was it motivated by patriotism, or the spirit of adventure? Fergal Keane unearths the powerful stories of Britain’s boy soldiers, looking at what Read More

imagine… tells the story of Judith Kerr, creator of some of our best-loved children’s books, including ‘Mog’ and ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’. Now 90, she still runs up the stairs to work all day in her attic studio. Born in Berlin, she was forced to flee Germany aged nine as her father, a writer, Read More

The incredible story of a mysterious nanny who died in 2009 leaving behind a secret hoard – thousands of stunning photographs. Never seen in her lifetime, they were found by chance in a Chicago storage locker and auctioned off cheaply. Now Vivian Maier has gone viral and her magical pictures sell for thousands of dollars. Read More

Many people turn to music when words are not enough, at funerals and weddings, at times of heartbreak and euphoria. It seems to hold more emotion and go deeper than words. Musicians as varied as Emeli Sande, who imitation richard mille rm 37 01 enthralled the world when she sang at the Olympics, opera diva Read More

Salman Rushdie talks about his years in hiding. WINNER, GRIERSON AWARD 2013 “… a hugely insightful and occasionally thrilling rolex day date 118206 de los hombres 36mm presidente pulsera tono plateado examination of one man’s struggle, with lashings of dark humour.”Time Out Time Out “Excellent … captures not only the fraught global cr rolex pearlmaster Read More

‘Ad Men’ profiles 50 years of British advertising to coincide with the launch of the 5th season of ‘Madmen’. Ridley Scott’s RSA Productions lifts the lid on 50 years of British advertising, and the men behind some of the most compelling visuals of our era. ‘Ad Men’ features interviews with advertising legends such as Charles Read More

Follows renowned but low caste musicians from dusty villages to the castle of the Maharajah for the tenth RIFF festival. The iconic arts series ‘Imagine’ takes a road trip round the desert state of Rajasthan, meeting musicians whose existence is under threat from the new India. They meet Bhopa bards who recite four-night-long epics in Read More

For the 1st time since Saddam Hussein’s rise to power 35 years ago, Iraq has a presence at the Venice Biennale – the show that is the Olympics of the international art world calendar. We follow 6 artists as they prepare for opening night. Thousands of years ago, Iraq was the cradle of civilization – Read More

The Story Of Ireland is a five-part landmark history of Ireland presented by Fergal Keane (Wild Africa, Great Railway Journeys). Ireland is living through a significant period in its cycle of history – since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the island has been at peace. This is unprecedented in the history of modern Ireland and Read More

Pioneer photographer, forefather of cinema, showman, murderer – Eadweard Muybridge was a Victorian enigma. He was born and died in Kingston upon Thames, but did his most famous work in California – freezing time and starting it up again, so that for the first time people could see how a racing horse’s legs moved. He Read More

At the age of 92, Diana Athill is suddenly a celebrity. Her frank and entertaining memoirs, mainly written after the age at which most people retire, chart a life less ordinary. She’s had a string of love affairs, mainly with married, black and/or younger men; enjoyed fifty years of success as an editor, worked with Read More

Dream city, Sin City, a mirage in the desert, Las Vegas is a film set in its own right, a piece of pop art, an outdoor museum of American culture. What is the story behind the neon lights and fantastical buildings? What will its future be in these tough times? Alan Yentob takes a mob Read More

The Great Depression and the Second World War changed what was expected of the arts; Alan Yentob asks if this recession could see the next transformation. Artist Chuck Close talks about the New Deal in America in the 30s, when the government paid artists to work, while actor Simon Callow tells how thrilled actors were Read More

Landmark three part series for BBC4 on the rolex yacht master m116681 0002 mens 44mm white dial making and marketing of American folk music, from the recording boom of the 20s – Mississippi John Hurt, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Dock Boggs – through the political folk movement of the 30s and 40s – Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Read More

Two hour observational documentary. Shepherd of his flock, he witnesses it and Iraqʼs destruction in the darkest days of the war.

Doris Lessing, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature, is both ‘hostess’ and ‘alien’ – the hostess, who presents a public face to the world, and the private person who writes, dreams and ‘experiments with her life’. Alan Yentob meets the feisty 88-year-old whose ‘myth country’ is still the African bush where she was Read More

Alan Yentob presents a profile of the provocative French-born American artist Louise Bourgeois, who was still producing cutting edge work at the age of 95. Memories of a disturbed childhood have produced fantastic and disturbing sculptures of giant spiders and poured-plastic body parts. As a girl she restored old tapestries, worked with Leger and knew Read More

Bettany Hughes searches for the truth about the ‘Golden Age’ of Ancient Athens, investigating how a barren rock wedged between the East and West became the first democracy 2,500 years ago. Democracy, liberty and the freedom of speech are trumpeted as the bedrock of western civilization, but what was Athens really like? Bettany goes deep Read More

America At A Crossroads, hosted by journalist Robert MacNeil, is a seven part series exploring the challenges confronting the world post 9/11 including the war on terrorism; the experience of American troops; the struggle for balance within the Islamic world and Muslim life in America; and America’s role in the world. Episode One, ‘Jihad: The Read More

Unique access to the very private man behind some of the best-loved songs of the twentieth century – New Orleans songwriter and producer, Allen Toussaint. “purposeful … intensity leaps off the screen”The Times “a charming portrait of an ever-curious man”Time Out AWARDS New Orleans Film Festival 2007 – Best Documentary Award and Grand Prize REVIEWS Read More

Five of the great female voices of the twentieth century, who dive to the depths, in both their lives and their songs, yet whose voices triumph over tragedy. An enormously popular BBC programme – Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday Judy Garland, Maria Callas, Janis Joplin – what more could you want?Make your own custom nrfactoryrolex.com, Galaxy Read More

From unique musical heritage to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina – a reflection on New Orleans, the city, its soundtrack, its influence and its resilience. Goddess of soul Irma Thomas is among those presenter Alan Yentob meets as he ponders the legends (Dr John, Louis Armstrong, etc) who have hailed from New Orleans and the Read More

This program contends that the popular perception of the Muslim occupation of Spain toward the end of the first millennium is largely wrong. The eighth century Muslim invasion of the Iberian Pennisula was largely welcomed by the locals and rejuvenated the area with advanced technology, agriculture and a construction boom. This program describes these innovations. Read More

Francis Pryor argues that Britain’s early history was a vibrant period, when the island thrived under foreign influences from as far afield as the Middle East without losing any cultural identity. LINKS Official Channel 4 Website IMDB Executive Producer Roy Ackerman Series Director Timothy Copestake Film Editor Allen Charlton Cinematography Colin Clarke

Oil is arguably the world’s most precious resource, but the oil industry must go to political, ethical and environmental extremes to ensure a continuous supply. This three-part series investigates the severe consequences of the relentless search for ‘black gold’. Part One, ‘Baku To Baghdad’ looks at BP’s new pipeline that will skirt an incredible five Read More

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An intimate portrait of one of the 20th century’s greatest leaders. FRONTLINE presents the story of the man behind the myth, probing Mandela’s character, leadership and life’s method through intimate recollections of friends, political allies, adversaries, and his fellow prisoners and jailers on Robben Island, where Mandela spent 18 of his 27 prison years, transforming Read More