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imagineā¦: Autumn 2008
October 14, 2008
7 Episodes
~55 min per episode
Overview
No overview available for this season.
Episodes
7
1
Dangerous Liaison: When Akram met Juliette
Oct 14, 2008
55 min
Following British-Bangladeshi choreographer Akram Khan as he takes the risk of his life. He has just months to teach Oscar-winning French actress Juliette Binoche to dance. She must also be confident enough to perform with her teacher in front of the National Theatre's discerning audience. Akram, for his part, will attempt to learn to act. Interviewees include Juliette Binoche, Sylvie Guillem, Joseph Fiennes, Antony Gormley, Nitin Sawhney and Anish Kapoor.
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2
A Love Story
Oct 21, 2008
50 min
Alan Yentob embarks on a quest to find out what makes a great love story in literature, film or song. Among those offering their help in this labour of love are author Jeffrey Eugenides and lyricist Hal David.
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3
Jay-Z: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered
Oct 28, 2008
55 min
Alan Yentob explores the life and work of Jay-Z, following the rapper over a period of six months.
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4
Let There Be Light
Nov 11, 2008
80 min
Alan Yentob meets artists who use light as both the source and inspiration for their work, including American James Turrell.
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5
How an Orchestra Saved Venezuela's Children
Nov 18, 2008
50 min
The Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, which caused a sensation at last year's Proms, is the product of an extraordinary music education system that has been running for more than 30 years. Children as young as two get intensive music lessons designed to steer them away from the dangers of the street. With Scotland now trying its own version of the scheme, Alan Yentob investigates the phenomenon and meets its most successful graduate, 27-year-old conductor Gustavo Dudamel, who next year becomes music director of the LA Philharmonic.
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6
Richard Serra: Man of Steel
Nov 25, 2008
60 min
Sculptor and giant of modern art Richard Serra discusses his extraordinary life and work. A creator of enormous, immediately identifiable steel sculptures that both terrify and mesmerise, Serra believes that each viewer creates the sculpture for themselves by being within it. To this end, a Japanese family are reminded of the Temples of Kyoto, a Londoner finds sanctuary in the Serra near Liverpool Street station, and most movingly, a Holocaust survivor sees one piece as a wall separating the living from the dead.
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7
Heavy Metal in Baghdad
Dec 2, 2008
60 min
Rock doc Heavy Metal in Baghdad follows the struggles of Iraq's one and only metal band, Acrassicauda, and tells its own story about the horror of daily life in the war-torn city. Following the documentary's limited cinema release Imagine presents an edited down version of that film, then picks up the story as the four band members have fled Iraq and are attempting to re-form their band in the West. Lost in a nightmare of bureaucracy, the four young musicians hold onto their dream, which is simply to play their music.
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