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Catapulted to worldwide notoriety in 1999 by The Ninth Hour, a sculpture of Pope John Paul II toppled by a meteorite, Maurizio Cattelan's work has bordered on criminal activity (breaking into a gallery and stealing another artist's work) and regularly defies good taste - Him features Hitler in prayer and sold earlier this year for a whopping £12,000,000. Building his career on evasion, trickery and subversion, Cattelan is perhaps not the most reliable of interviewees, but ex-girlfriends, family members, collectors and dealers build a compelling and intimate portrait of an enigmatic figure. 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It is a dystopian work of speculative fiction set in the future, which has drawn comparison with aspects of Donald Trump's leadership, in particular the charges of misogyny which have inflamed anti-Trump campaigners across America. 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A central pillar of the film is Siffre’s profound journey through love and grief. He honors his 48-year relationship with his late partner Peter Lloyd, alongside the unique 16-year ménage à trois they shared with their second husband, Ruud van Baardwijk. Siffre reflects on the immense heartbreak of losing both men within two years, a tragedy that prompted his move to Spain. Musically, the film tracks his hits \"It Must Be Love\" and \"(Something Inside) So Strong\", alongside his battles over hip-hop sampling. 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Alan Yentob sets out to discover why the word game leaves us spellbound, tracing its surprising history, meeting the American tournament Word Freaks, and paying a visit to the SAS-style training camp that the Nigerian government trains their players at.",1.1567,"\u002FSBXrmu3q7JFc8dWa2wbS7IZE7z.jpg","2009-12-22","658fe84ea58902739695b3d8",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":10,"genre_ids":186,"id":187,"title":188,"original_language":24,"original_title":188,"overview":189,"popularity":190,"poster_path":191,"release_date":192,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":29,"vote_count":29,"character":42,"credit_id":193,"order":29,"media_type":32},[35],1224314,"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 ambitious show yet: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman. 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On their journey, Howard and Alan examine the evidence behind the charge of antisemitism against Shakespeare. How did his old Jew from Venice become such a useful propaganda tool during the Third Reich, and what was behind the absurd and infamous proposal to cut off a 'pound of flesh'?",0.9221,"2015-10-27","5654eda6c3a368413d000693",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":267,"genre_ids":268,"id":269,"title":270,"original_language":24,"original_title":270,"overview":271,"popularity":272,"poster_path":273,"release_date":274,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":29,"vote_count":29,"character":63,"credit_id":275,"order":29,"media_type":32},"\u002F3jbfhMbZXNVXZN9AA6rkfnnDOXM.jpg",[35],1276248,"Mini: A Life Revisited","1975 documentary about 11-year-old serial arsonist Michael 'Mini' Cooper, followed by Cooper and the film's director Franc Roddam in conversation with Alan Yentob in 2013.",1.0348,"\u002F3b2u7K7nJYtsny1InbSPUyd7K5a.jpg","2013-10-29","66213e8b3f48330186742694",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":277,"genre_ids":278,"id":279,"title":280,"original_language":24,"original_title":280,"overview":281,"popularity":282,"poster_path":283,"release_date":284,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":285,"vote_count":152,"character":286,"credit_id":287,"order":29,"media_type":32},"\u002FaubClA7fQkMJFVaxQ8W9i94AbVC.jpg",[35,114],1276527,"Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now","Featuring exclusive access to their recent tour and their new album, this documentary reveals the fascinating world of Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe.",1.5076,"\u002F7JG8MfpCOYqHVcTN9SfWdbqCjo3.jpg","2024-04-16",8.3,"Self - Interviewer","6621b2ccccde04018805f674",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":10,"genre_ids":289,"id":290,"title":291,"original_language":24,"original_title":291,"overview":292,"popularity":293,"poster_path":10,"release_date":294,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":29,"vote_count":29,"character":30,"credit_id":295,"order":29,"media_type":32},[35],1276700,"Richard Serra: Man of Steel","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.  Contributors include Chuck Close, Philip Glass and Glenn D Lowry, Director of MoMA.",0.894,"2008-11-25","66223c8e78570e017e11629b",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":297,"genre_ids":298,"id":299,"title":300,"original_language":24,"original_title":300,"overview":301,"popularity":302,"poster_path":303,"release_date":304,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":154,"vote_count":44,"character":286,"credit_id":305,"order":44,"media_type":32},"\u002F1v3QxWzAGLfenjcSi6Rv6XTcZ5i.jpg",[35],1279938,"Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly","Salman Rushdie speaks to Alan Yentob about the devastating knife attack he was subjected to in 2022, losing his right eye and almost his ability to write.",1.0475,"\u002FaOa96kjtIuaIaOk1UEIYB25BfLj.jpg","2024-05-07","662a497223d278011e33518b",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":10,"genre_ids":307,"id":308,"title":309,"original_language":24,"original_title":309,"overview":310,"popularity":311,"poster_path":10,"release_date":312,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":29,"vote_count":29,"character":63,"credit_id":313,"order":29,"media_type":32},[],1286879,"Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is","Alan Yentob meets Harlem-born artist, author and activist Faith Ringgold as she prepares for her London show at the Serpentine Gallery.",0.6693,"2019-07-14","663ac3c9a6aed97a50e525ae",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":315,"genre_ids":316,"id":317,"title":318,"original_language":24,"original_title":318,"overview":319,"popularity":320,"poster_path":321,"release_date":322,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":29,"vote_count":29,"character":323,"credit_id":324,"order":44,"media_type":32},"\u002Feo0StM0Kjb6YfVfvFEL1MYIYj33.jpg",[35],1294799,"Goodbye Television Centre","After 53 years Television Centre, the BBC's TV headquarters, is closing its doors and Michael Grade gathers together many of its best-loved faces to stroll down memory lane.",0.8545,"\u002Fz5Z5GCyGNqPvObWUiV9yFuLp9u3.jpg","2013-03-22","Self - Reporter","664fb33e435bb7cda182bc9c",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":10,"genre_ids":326,"id":327,"title":328,"original_language":24,"original_title":328,"overview":329,"popularity":330,"poster_path":331,"release_date":332,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":29,"vote_count":29,"character":132,"credit_id":333,"order":29,"media_type":32},[35],406987,"One Night In 2012","Co-produced by Rogan Productions and BBC Studios.  London. The Summer of 2012. As rehearsals take place in a rainy Dagenham car park, Director Danny Boyle reveals a glimpse of his Opening Ceremony to the press. Some denounce it as the “Tellytubby Olympics” - others fear that it can never compete with the spectacle of Beijing. Everything pointed to an embarrassing failure. So how did one night in 2012 become 'The Greatest Show on Earth'? This is the story of a unique night when the Brits began to believe in themselves again. A night which showed the country what it could achieve when extraordinary people pulled together. A night which went beyond everyone’s expectations. For the first time since that night, Danny Boyle and the creative team behind the ceremony reunite in the company of Alan Yentob to explain the thinking that went into creating one of the country’s finer moments.",0.9863,"\u002FhltR3MiH1dvVQyD4Zu85IsZ9ma9.jpg","2016-07-17","578bda0392514132c300991b",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":335,"genre_ids":336,"id":338,"title":339,"original_language":24,"original_title":339,"overview":340,"popularity":341,"poster_path":342,"release_date":343,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":29,"vote_count":29,"character":42,"credit_id":344,"order":44,"media_type":32},"\u002F5gFRT17C7kup9M7vpI0hgRFceDI.jpg",[337,35,114],80,423374,"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 Man Booker prize for his magisterial novel A Brief History of Seven Killings, about the events surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob Marley and their aftermath. He also chose to come out as gay in an article for the New York Times - a brave move for a man born in what has been called the world's most homophobic country. Alan Yentob accompanies the charismatic and provocative James back to Jamaica and finds in his three highly praised novels a complex portrait of the turbulent history of his native country.",1.4026,"\u002FeNStxIm7jlGNPEtKn1iZZdIm3wb.jpg","2016-10-29","5814dd9dc3a368766900160b",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":10,"genre_ids":346,"id":347,"title":348,"original_language":24,"original_title":348,"overview":349,"popularity":350,"poster_path":351,"release_date":352,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":353,"vote_count":44,"character":63,"credit_id":354,"order":44,"media_type":32},[35],433704,"Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil","Following the recent death of Ken Russell, Alan Yentob looks back over the career of the flamboyant film director responsible for Women In Love, Tommy and The Devils. Friends and admirers - including Glenda Jackson, Terry Gilliam, Twiggy, Melvyn Bragg, Robert Powell and Roger Daltrey - recall a pioneering documentary-maker, talented photographer and fearless film director.",1.3314,"\u002FgIP5GO7bM5ZPZf5eOQKh6kZXNY.jpg","2012-01-14",8,"58712813c3a3684f1d00bbb9",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":10,"genre_ids":356,"id":357,"title":358,"original_language":24,"original_title":358,"overview":359,"popularity":360,"poster_path":361,"release_date":362,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":353,"vote_count":44,"character":363,"credit_id":364,"order":73,"media_type":32},[35],436012,"Mike Leigh: Making Plays","Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.",1.568,"\u002FiKVN3liwt7cLlGAIJcKKGkguOdv.jpg","1982-09-04","Self - Narrator, Interviewer","58821de7925141302b00e111",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":10,"genre_ids":366,"id":367,"title":368,"original_language":24,"original_title":368,"overview":369,"popularity":370,"poster_path":10,"release_date":371,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":151,"vote_count":44,"character":63,"credit_id":372,"order":44,"media_type":32},[35],436504,"The One and Only Mike Leigh","In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about a unique body of work and a lifelong struggle to make films on his own terms. On day one of a Mike Leigh film, there is no script, no story and the actors do not know if they will even be in the final film. It is a process that has yielded some of cinema's most celebrated performances, and Leigh's new film Mr Turner is already winning critical acclaim. Actors including Jim Broadbent, Eddie Marsan, Sally Hawkins, Lesley Manville and James Corden give fascinating insights into the director and his distinctive method of working.",1.2536,"2014-11-24","5883df65925141045d00fdff",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":10,"genre_ids":374,"id":375,"title":376,"original_language":24,"original_title":376,"overview":377,"popularity":378,"poster_path":379,"release_date":380,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":29,"vote_count":29,"character":63,"credit_id":381,"order":29,"media_type":32},[35,259],479264,"Fantastic Mr. Dahl","Documentary about author Roald Dahl, produced for the British television series Imagine.",1.223,"\u002F68DsxeqGTHIYNLxg5JoE7MZ8UJg.jpg","2005-06-22","59d2aa19c3a3683067006dd3",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":10,"genre_ids":383,"id":384,"title":385,"original_language":24,"original_title":385,"overview":386,"popularity":387,"poster_path":388,"release_date":389,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":29,"vote_count":29,"character":42,"credit_id":390,"order":29,"media_type":32},[],491148,"Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room","An intimate portrait of British sculptor Rachel Whiteread as she unpacks her life's work for a major retrospective at Tate Britain in London. 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From the iconic Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao to LA's Walt Disney Concert Hall, Gehry's buildings both intrigue and ignite. For Frank, rules are there to be broken. Alan Yentob explores Gehry's remarkable journey from poor outsider in Toronto to global 'starchitect' and follows the construction of a characteristically audacious new Gehry building in Sydney - his first in Australia.",0.9044,"\u002F9cWWfdcuFyonvwN9W45aZITUTzG.jpg","2015-06-23","5c3a897e9251414de5749a51",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":10,"genre_ids":439,"id":440,"title":441,"original_language":24,"original_title":441,"overview":442,"popularity":443,"poster_path":444,"release_date":445,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":29,"vote_count":29,"character":63,"credit_id":446,"order":29,"media_type":32},[35],574807,"Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself","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 scandalized the public. Her flower forms were seen as a shocking and vibrant display of femininity, her bones and skulls as surreal and disturbing. Now, 30 years after her death, to coincide with a major Tate Modern show, imagine - tells the story of Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the most inspiring artists ever.",0.9578,"\u002FvaZUp7g5k5Mt0yNCJLDuKRM3Dbr.jpg","2016-07-26","5c3a8c439251414dd774b858",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":448,"genre_ids":449,"id":450,"title":451,"original_language":24,"original_title":451,"overview":452,"popularity":453,"poster_path":454,"release_date":455,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":456,"vote_count":353,"character":63,"credit_id":457,"order":152,"media_type":32},"\u002Fzx3Iyo0iuE8SuT5xwE3TpNUAdor.jpg",[35,420],574808,"Mel Brooks: Unwrapped","At the age of 91, Mel Brooks is unstoppable, with his musical \"Young Frankenstein\" opening to great critical acclaim in London in late 2017. Alan Yentob visits Mel at home in Hollywood, at work and at play.",1.3972,"\u002FbKNwQwK3KzSVacfpuUXT6oIkE0U.jpg","2018-02-17",6.4,"5c3a8d119251414dcc74b186",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":10,"genre_ids":459,"id":460,"title":461,"original_language":24,"original_title":461,"overview":462,"popularity":463,"poster_path":464,"release_date":465,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":29,"vote_count":29,"character":63,"credit_id":466,"order":29,"media_type":32},[35],580709,"Jo Brand: No Holds Barred","Alan Yentob looks into the life of comedian Jo Brand, marking a diverse career which began in 1980s stand-up comedy and has moved through writing, performing and presenting.",1.5809,"\u002FoVEEie5BQ2vtZw6XWnpklDNabjw.jpg","2019-01-28","5c5cc45b9251413389bb04e8",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":10,"genre_ids":468,"id":469,"title":470,"original_language":24,"original_title":470,"overview":471,"popularity":472,"poster_path":473,"release_date":474,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":29,"vote_count":29,"character":63,"credit_id":475,"order":44,"media_type":32},[35],582967,"David Chipperfield: A Place to Be","Alan Yentob talks to British architect David Chipperfield about his breakthrough in Berlin, his love of the city and the 11 years spent on the transformation of the Neues Museum.",0.9047,"\u002FqWCjU0aTpluJXGRX9GLDMzvwCcV.jpg","2015-12-01","5c6a71360e0a261e069a3f49",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":10,"genre_ids":477,"id":478,"title":479,"original_language":24,"original_title":479,"overview":480,"popularity":481,"poster_path":482,"release_date":483,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":29,"vote_count":29,"character":63,"credit_id":484,"order":44,"media_type":32},[35],578389,"The Year of Anish Kapoor","Alan Yentob meets one of Britain's most accomplished and popular sculptors, Anish Kapoor, known for his audacious works of staggering complexity and scale.",0.6963,"\u002Fcf2JR8Uul6lELjTmjcJs2CMpCrJ.jpg","2009-11-14","5c4e278f0e0a264962d70f2a",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":486,"genre_ids":487,"id":488,"title":489,"original_language":24,"original_title":489,"overview":490,"popularity":491,"poster_path":492,"release_date":493,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":29,"vote_count":29,"character":42,"credit_id":494,"order":44,"media_type":32},"\u002FjOXIfCroa5EtTSaubWa93KMw88s.jpg",[35,114],614347,"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 pineapple-canning factory in Honolulu to becoming a Hollywood legend. Alan Yentob joins Bette Midler on a journey through the chorus lines of Broadway and the bathhouses and nightclubs of the 1970s to the very top of the film industry. Her combination of a soulful voice and the raucous wit of Mae West has made her name as an outrageous, but always captivating, all-round entertainer.",1.0231,"\u002FusmSsLjtZI3mOnG4QpvyGW2FZT6.jpg","2014-11-11","5d25395b69d2801be00317c7",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":10,"genre_ids":496,"id":497,"title":498,"original_language":24,"original_title":498,"overview":499,"popularity":500,"poster_path":501,"release_date":502,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":29,"vote_count":29,"character":63,"credit_id":503,"order":29,"media_type":32},[35],614024,"Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless","Edna O’Brien is one of the greatest literary talents and rule breakers of her generation. In 1960, her revolutionary debut novel, The Country Girls, broke down social and sexual barriers for women and was subsequently banned in her native country of Ireland. The awrd-winning O’Brien continues to produce some of the most urgent work of her unparalleled career, with her eighteenth novel, Girl, a searing story inspired by the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram, to be published later this year. In this honest and engaging documentary, Edna O’Brien reflects on her remarkable and ongoing writing life, interwoven with actors who perform extracts from her novels and rare family archive footage.",0.7846,"\u002FwG8AhxI6gPCAMN8r4CpmPZgJQO9.jpg","2019-07-07","5d2366e194d8a87d3444980a",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":505,"genre_ids":506,"id":507,"title":508,"original_language":24,"original_title":508,"overview":509,"popularity":510,"poster_path":511,"release_date":512,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":353,"vote_count":44,"character":42,"credit_id":513,"order":29,"media_type":32},"\u002FfSCN6hsE1bli1NMFPjL0yln8okm.jpg",[35],348902,"Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?","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. Vivian was a tough street photographer, a secret poet of suburbia. In life she was a recluse, a hoarder, spinning tall tales about her French roots. Presented by Alan Yentob, the film includes stories from those who knew her and those who revealed her astonishing work.",1.0483,"\u002Fe8QtjA5tL9U7kSY0ZwTTVsFZuw5.jpg","2013-06-25","5d351fcc2f8d097bccd53c54",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":10,"genre_ids":515,"id":516,"title":517,"original_language":24,"original_title":517,"overview":518,"popularity":519,"poster_path":520,"release_date":521,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":29,"vote_count":29,"character":42,"credit_id":522,"order":523,"media_type":32},[35],620707,"The Seven Year Hitch","This documentary looks at executive producer Philip Segal’s seven-year quest to return Doctor Who to the screen, from his initial contact with the BBC shortly before its cancellation in 1989, through to the production and transmission of the movie in 1996. Featuring Philip Segal, BBC executive producer Jo Wright, BBC Head of Series Peter Cregeen, BBC1 controller Alan Yentob, writer Matthew Jacobs and Graeme Harper, the director of BBC Enterprises' abandoned Doctor Who movie. Narrated by Amanda Drew.",1.6848,"\u002Fey6MNpfO0miqRM3EEBifbEnkszM.jpg","2010-10-04","5d471a8e2d1e405db5bdd62d",4,{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":10,"genre_ids":525,"id":526,"title":527,"original_language":24,"original_title":527,"overview":528,"popularity":529,"poster_path":530,"release_date":531,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":29,"vote_count":29,"character":63,"credit_id":532,"order":44,"media_type":32},[35],638206,"Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device","Olafur Eliasson has been pushing the limits of the sublime and the spectacular in his art for almost 30 years. From his monumental installation, The Weather Project, in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in 2003 to his recent interventions in climate change and global migration, his is an art which strives to change the world every step of the way.  In 2019, the Danish-Icelandic artist returns to Tate Modern with his landmark exhibition, In Real Life, surveying the breadth of his career from his beginnings as an art student in Copenhagen through to the latest pieces created in his vast studio laboratory in Berlin. 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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 went on to animate the movements of naked ladies, wrestlers, athletes, elephants, cockatoos and his own naked body, projecting his images publicly with a machine he invented and astounding audiences worldwide with the first flickerings of cinema. Alan Yentob follows in Muybridge's footsteps as he makes - and often changes - his name, and sets off to kill his young wife's lover. 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Every word spoken by the actors in this film is sourced from the letters that Van Gogh sent to his younger brother Theo, and of those around him. 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With contributions from key collaborators such as Chris Morris, Steve Coogan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Rebecca Front, Jesse Armstrong, Michael Palin and Peter Capaldi, imagine... sheds light on Iannucci’s unique creative process.",1.3164,"\u002F7uVYSxURMVNYpmVJlD7j2bH0GyX.jpg","2025-03-03","67cd9eac856e13cb3d10e46e",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":638,"genre_ids":639,"id":640,"title":641,"original_language":24,"original_title":641,"overview":642,"popularity":643,"poster_path":644,"release_date":645,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":151,"vote_count":44,"character":42,"credit_id":646,"order":29,"media_type":32},"\u002FvSyzxo9HptAL1cN9RYr4xEeYbLX.jpg",[35],1523117,"When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville","As a part of a tribute night to broadcaster and television executive Alan Yentob, he interviews leading British artist Jenny Saville. One of the most successful figurative painters working today, she came to prominence as part of the YBA movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She has been reluctant to discuss her work for many years on television, until now. Alan Yentob was working with her on a film for Imagine and caught up with her in Vienna on the eve of two major 2025 exhibitions she is mounting. This was the last interview Alan Yentob conducted in a career spanning six decades at the BBC, bringing many of the world’s leading artists and creatives to the screen. Alan also persuaded Jenny to allow cameras into her painting studio for the first time in almost three decades.",1.0555,"\u002Fz6zUzDfoDnypWCqLKJZHdM8rF6n.jpg","2025-06-08","688b92ffc6e26b7fc6335786",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":10,"genre_ids":648,"id":649,"title":650,"original_language":24,"original_title":650,"overview":651,"popularity":652,"poster_path":653,"release_date":654,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":29,"vote_count":29,"character":42,"credit_id":655,"order":9,"media_type":32},[35],1527214,"Gilbert and George: No Surrender","Alan Yentob meets the Turner Prize winning artists Gilbert & George at home. Over the last 40 years, British artists Gilbert and George have fascinated, outraged, delighted and confounded the art establishment. 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Working with themes of history, memory and mythology, Kiefer produces work that is consistently controversial, and monumental in its scale and ambition.  In this imagine... Alan Yentob joins the artist at his studios in France and Germany as he prepares for a retrospective at the Royal Academy. In a series of frank interviews set against the backdrop of his awe-inspiring studios, Kiefer discusses the impact of his most significant pieces, installs a selection of new work, and explains why he is as excited and driven by his practice now, at the age of 69, as he was when he began.",0.8711,"\u002Fo9iddc7h5tryQdM00LOzlDtJMWV.jpg","2014-11-18","68ce6a15ddf045e02b97d0dd",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":10,"genre_ids":666,"id":667,"title":668,"original_language":24,"original_title":668,"overview":669,"popularity":670,"poster_path":10,"release_date":671,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":29,"vote_count":29,"character":63,"credit_id":672,"order":44,"media_type":32},[],1554186,"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 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 the British composer's opera Lessons in Love and Violence, which premiered at the Royal Opera House in 2018.  The film follows his journey from composing songs aged three and being transfixed by Fantasia and 2001: Space Odyssey to his golden days as the youngest ever pupil of the legendary composer Olivier Messiaen in Paris. Early experiments with computers, a passion for folk instruments and virtuosity on the piano combined to produce the startling, moving music heard today.",0.7382,"2018-10-16","68da944797406a9834e1c0d7",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":10,"genre_ids":674,"id":675,"title":676,"original_language":24,"original_title":676,"overview":677,"popularity":678,"poster_path":10,"release_date":679,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":29,"vote_count":29,"character":132,"credit_id":680,"order":29,"media_type":32},[35],215090,"The Trouble with Tolstoy","The Life of Tolstoy, from his gambling and youthful escapades, to his powerful religious conversion and finally death.",0.6828,"2011-03-26","68fe94fd1055c23b08eab077",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":10,"genre_ids":682,"id":683,"title":684,"original_language":24,"original_title":684,"overview":685,"popularity":686,"poster_path":10,"release_date":687,"softcore":4,"video":4,"vote_average":29,"vote_count":29,"character":63,"credit_id":688,"order":29,"media_type":32},[35],1624235,"Imagine... 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A television relay of the 2006 Royal Court Theatre production of Samuel Beckett's critically acclaimed play, starring Harold Pinter.",0.9984,"\u002Fxp3hxtwM72hVmUE14Jf7RVyBzbq.jpg","2007-06-20","Self (Introduction)","6a9a0aef411c1614baa0ed07",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":716,"genre_ids":717,"id":718,"origin_country":719,"original_language":24,"original_name":721,"overview":722,"popularity":723,"poster_path":724,"first_air_date":725,"softcore":4,"name":721,"vote_average":726,"vote_count":121,"character":132,"credit_id":727,"episode_count":44,"first_credit_air_date":728,"media_type":729},"\u002Fa4w0GlRK2oWoZo3gcXrU0OHiXGk.jpg",[420],3111,[720],"GB","Operation Good Guys","Operation Good Guys is a British mockumentary, a fly-on-the-wall documentary series about an elite police unit's bid to snare one of Britain's most powerful crime lords.Blurring the line between fact and fiction, it witnesses, on camera, the total breakdown, professionally and personally, of the Operation Good Guys team. Throughout the operation, The 'Good Guys' have an unfortunate habit of embroiling into their calamitous world some of the country's best-known celebrities, from actors and footballers, to TV presenters and even the odd ex-convict.",6.1335,"\u002Fsit87tWGoKqpWjuagovkdDWQpw.jpg","1997-12-29",6.8,"52574c5419c29531db0b87e7","1999-07-05","tv",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":731,"genre_ids":732,"id":733,"origin_country":734,"original_language":24,"original_name":735,"overview":736,"popularity":737,"poster_path":738,"first_air_date":739,"softcore":4,"name":735,"vote_average":29,"vote_count":29,"character":132,"credit_id":740,"episode_count":152,"first_credit_air_date":739,"media_type":729},"\u002FoooWzH3SUCknJcHRneUiK3Px9eE.jpg",[35],25253,[720],"The Story Of The Guitar","How did the guitar become the world’s favorite instrument? Alan Yentob begins this personal journey, fascinated by both the sound of the Oud, an ancient middle-eastern ancestor of the lute, and the iconic guitar draped round the necks of Bill Hailey and Elvis Presley, which rocked the cosy world of popular music in the 50s.",1.4573,"\u002FyVzjyHWdkiCWA3F5uoADAs5RZHx.jpg","2008-10-05","52587ae4760ee34661311cef",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":10,"genre_ids":742,"id":743,"origin_country":744,"original_language":24,"original_name":745,"overview":132,"popularity":746,"poster_path":10,"first_air_date":747,"softcore":4,"name":745,"vote_average":29,"vote_count":29,"character":132,"credit_id":748,"episode_count":44,"first_credit_air_date":749,"media_type":729},[],26692,[720],"Behind The Screen",3.3345,"1988-10-24","5258810b760ee3466139d044","1990-10-22",{"adult":4,"backdrop_path":751,"genre_ids":752,"id":754,"origin_country":755,"original_language":24,"original_name":756,"overview":757,"popularity":758,"poster_path":759,"first_air_date":760,"softcore":4,"name":756,"vote_average":761,"vote_count":762,"character":42,"credit_id":763,"episode_count":44,"first_credit_air_date":764,"media_type":729},"\u002FlV9jwkGJC5iIYnMwq645UZ56W2.jpg",[753],10767,30769,[720],"Live from Studio Five","Live from Studio Five was an early-evening British magazine programme which was produced by Sky News for Channel 5. It was presented by Kate Walsh and a line-up of other co-presenters during its run. It consisted of interviews and discussing topical issues, with an emphasis on showbusiness news and celebrity gossip, after originally covering stories from a popular news agenda. It aired its final edition on 4 February 2011 and was replaced by OK! 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The series takes place in Reading, Berkshire, in 1997, where thirteen-year-old Simon Doonan and his best friend Kylie dream of escaping their dreary suburban surroundings and moving to cosmopolitan London \"to live amongst the beautiful people.\" The first episode aired on BBC Two on 2 October 2008 and recorded overnight ratings of 1.5 million viewers and positive critical reaction. Episodes are self-contained, but do follow a loose story arc throughout the course of each series. 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