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Main cast, played by Alan Yentob

Episode 1x01: The Saatchi Phenomenon (Jun 11, 2003)
Episode 1x02: Barbara Hepworth, Shapes out of Feelings (Jun 18, 2003)
Episode 1x03: The Hip-Hop Generation (Jun 25, 2003)
Episode 1x04: Stella's Story (Jul 2, 2003)
Episode 1x05: Carlos Acosta, the Reluctant Ballet Dancer (Jul 9, 2003)
Episode 1x06: The Portrait of Omai (Jul 16, 2003)
Episode 1x07: John Mortimer Owning up at 80 (Jul 23, 2003)
Episode 2x01: The Voice of Bryn Terfel (Nov 12, 2003)
Episode 2x02: A Funny Business (Nov 19, 2003)
Episode 2x03: Entertaining Mr Soane (Nov 26, 2003)
Episode 2x04: The World According to Parr (Dec 3, 2003)
Episode 2x05: From Pencils to Pixels (Dec 10, 2003)
Episode 2x06: An A-Z of the OED (Dec 17, 2003)
Episode 3x01: The Mysterious Mr Hopper (Jun 2, 2004)
Episode 3x02: Sitting for Lucian Freud (Jun 9, 2004)
Episode 3x03: Saint John Coltrane (Jun 16, 2004)
Episode 3x04: Dirty But Clean Pierre (Jun 23, 2004)
Episode 3x05: Unsuitable for Children? (Jun 30, 2004)
Episode 3x06: Simon Gray's Smoking Diaries (Jul 7, 2004)
Episode 4x01: Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture (Nov 24, 2004)
Episode 4x02: Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson's Smile (Dec 1, 2004)
Episode 4x03: Bruce Nauman: The Godfather of Modern Art (Dec 8, 2004)
Episode 4x04: Marlon Brando (Dec 15, 2004)
Episode 4x05: Antonio Pappano: A Year at the Opera (Dec 22, 2004)
Episode 5x01: A Short History of Tall Buildings - Episode 1 (May 11, 2005)
Episode 5x02: A Short History of Tall Buildings - Episode 2 (May 18, 2005)
Episode 5x03: A Short History of Tall Buildings - Episode 3 (May 25, 2005)
Episode 6x01: Fantastic Mr Dahl (Jun 22, 2005)
Episode 6x02: Frida Kahlo (Jun 29, 2005)
Episode 6x03: Being a Concert Pianist (Jun 6, 2005)
Episode 7x01: Elgar and the Missing Concerto (Nov 23, 2005)
Episode 7x02: Amos Oz: The Conscience of Israel (Nov 30, 2005)
Episode 7x03: Chuck Close, Close Up (Dec 7, 2005)
Episode 7x04: Rhythm Is It! (Dec 14, 2005)
Episode 8x01: Sweet Home New Orleans (Jan 17, 2006)
Episode 8x02: Andy Warhol: Denied (Jan 24, 2006)
Episode 8x03: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Studio (Jan 31, 2006)
Episode 8x04: Sitting Comfortably (Feb 7, 2006)
Episode 9x01: Being Hamlet (May 23, 2006)
Episode 9x02: Yusuf, the Artist Formerly Known as Cat Stevens (May 30, 2006)
Episode 9x03: The Ingenious Thomas Heatherwick (Jun 6, 2006)
Episode 9x04: A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin (Jun 13, 2006)
Episode 10x01: Peter Pan, a Hard Act to Follow (Oct 17, 2006)
Episode 10x02: Velazquez, The Painter's Painter (Oct 24, 2006)
Episode 10x03: A Play for Today (Oct 31, 2006)
Episode 10x04: The Movie Brats, Take Two (Nov 7, 2006)
Episode 10x05: Who Cares About Art? (Nov 14, 2006)
Episode 10x06: Hans Holbein, International Man of Mystery (Nov 21, 2006)
Episode 10x07: Being a Diva (Nov 28, 2006)
Episode 10x08: www.herecomeseverybody.co.uk (Dec 19, 2006)
Episode 10x09: And Then There Was Television (Dec 19, 2006)
Episode 10x10: The Beatles in Love (Dec 27, 2006)
Episode 11x01: Gilbert and George: No Surrender (May 8, 2007)
Episode 11x02: Stealing Klimt (May 15, 2007)
Episode 11x03: Scott Walker (May 22, 2007)
Episode 11x04: It's The Surreal Thing (May 29, 2007)
Episode 11x05: Damon and Jamie's Excellent Adventure (Jul 4, 2007)
Episode 12x01: Henry Perkins: Bolshoi Boy (Oct 23, 2007)
Episode 12x02: Bollywood's Big B (Oct 30, 2007)
Episode 12x03: Helvetica (Nov 6, 2007)
Episode 12x04: Louise Bourgeois: Spiderwoman (Nov 13, 2007)
Episode 12x05: How to Get on in the Art World (Nov 20, 2007)
Episode 12x06: The Secret of Life (Feb 19, 2008)
Episode 12x07: Richard Rogers, Inside Out (Feb 26, 2008)
Episode 12x08: Marc Newson: Urban Spaceman (Mar 4, 2008)
Episode 13x01: Doris Lessing - The Reluctant Heroine (May 27, 2008)
Episode 13x02: Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain (Jun 3, 2008)
Episode 13x03: Annie Leibovitz - Life Through a Lens (Jun 10, 2008)
Episode 13x04: A Trip to Asia: On the Road with the Berlin Philharmonic (Jun 17, 2008)
Episode 13x05: A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami (Jun 24, 2008)
Episode 13x06: Werner Herzog: Beyond Reason (Jul 1, 2008)
Episode 13x07: Love, Loss and Anthony Minghella (Jul 8, 2008)
Episode 14x01: The Story of the Guitar - In The Beginning (Oct 5, 2008)
Episode 14x02: The Story of the Guitar - Out of the Frying Pan (Oct 12, 2008)
Episode 14x03: Dangerous Liaisons: When Akram met Juliette (Oct 14, 2008)
Episode 14x04: The Story of the Guitar - This Time it's Personal (Oct 19, 2008)
Episode 14x05: A Love Story (Oct 21, 2008)
Episode 14x06: Jay-Z: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered (Oct 28, 2008)
Episode 14x07: Let There Be Light (Nov 11, 2008)
Episode 14x08: How an Orchestra Saved Venezuela's Children (Nov 18, 2008)
Episode 14x09: Richard Serra: Man of Steel (Nov 25, 2008)
Episode 14x10: Heavy Metal in Baghdad (Dec 2, 2008)
Episode 15x01: Yes We Can! The Lost Art Of Oratory (Apr 5, 2009)
Episode 15x02: Save the Last Dance for Me (Jun 23, 2009)
Episode 15x03: David Hockney: A Bigger Picture (Jun 30, 2009)
Episode 15x04: Rufus Wainwright, Prima Donna (Jul 7, 2009)
Episode 15x05: The Colourful Mr Eggleston (Jul 14, 2009)
Episode 15x06: Art in Troubled Times: A New Deal for Art (Jul 21, 2009)
Episode 15x08: Art in Troubled Times: Part II – The Home Front (Jul 28, 2009)
Episode 15x10: The Smoking Diaries Update (Jul 25, 2009)
Episode 16x01: The Year of Anish Kapoor (Nov 17, 2009)
Episode 16x02: Dame Shirley Bassey: The Girl from Tiger Bay (Nov 24, 2009)
Episode 16x03: Own Art (Dec 1, 2009)
Episode 16x04: Joan Baez... How Sweet the Sound (Dec 8, 2009)
Episode 16x05: Placido Domingo: The Time of My Life (Dec 15, 2009)
Episode 16x06: Scrabble - A Night on the Tiles (Dec 22, 2009)
Episode 17x01: Vincent Van Gogh: Painted with Words (Apr 5, 2010)
Episode 17x02: The Stones in Exile (May 23, 2010)
Episode 18x01: Nigel Kennedy's Polish Adventure (Jun 15, 2010)
Episode 18x02: Art Is Child's Play (Jun 22, 2010)
Episode 18x03: Growing Old Disgracefully (Jun 29, 2010)
Episode 18x04: Tom Jones - What Good Am I? (Jul 6, 2010)
Episode 19x01: Ai Weiwei - Without Fear or Favour (Nov 16, 2010)
Episode 19x02: Smash His Camera (Nov 23, 2010)
Episode 19x03: The Weird Adventures of Eadweard Muybridge (Nov 30, 2010)
Episode 19x04: Bruce Springsteen: Darkness Revisited (Dec 7, 2010)
Episode 19x05: Ben-Hur (Dec 14, 2010)
Episode 19x06: Ray Davies - Imaginary Man (Dec 21, 2010)
Episode 20x01: The Trouble with Tolstoy - 1. At War with Himself (Mar 27, 2011)
Episode 20x02: The Trouble with Tolstoy - 2. In Search of Happiness (Apr 3, 2011)
Episode 20x03: The Man Who Forgot How to Read and Other Stories (Jun 28, 2011)
Episode 20x04: The Pharaohs' Museum on Liberation Square (Jul 5, 2011)
Episode 20x05: Lennon: The New York Years (Jul 12, 2011)
Episode 20x06: Harry Nilsson: The Missing Beatle (Jul 19, 2011)
Episode 20x07: Iraq in Venice (Jul 26, 2011)
Episode 21x01: U2: From the Sky Down (Oct 9, 2011)
Episode 21x02: Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman (Nov 1, 2011)
Episode 21x03: Simon and Garfunkel - The Harmony Game (Nov 8, 2011)
Episode 21x04: Alan Ayckbourn - Greetings from Scarborough (Nov 15, 2011)
Episode 21x05: Vidal Sassoon - A Cut Above (Nov 22, 2011)
Episode 21x06: The Lost Music of Rajasthan (Dec 6, 2011)
Episode 21x07: Books - The Last Chapter? (Dec 13, 2011)
Episode 21x08: The Art Of Stand-Up (Part One) (Dec 19, 2011)
Episode 21x09: The Art Of Stand-Up (Part Two) (Dec 20, 2011)
Episode 22x01: Theatre of War (Jun 26, 2012)
Episode 22x02: Paul Simon's Graceland - Under African Skies (Jul 3, 2012)
Episode 22x03: Just One Falsetto (Jul 10, 2012)
Episode 22x04: Glasgow: The Grit and the Glamour (Jul 17, 2012)
Episode 22x05: Dancing with Titian (Jul 24, 2012)
Episode 23x01: The Fatwa - Salman's Story (Sep 19, 2012)
Episode 23x02: Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender (Oct 16, 2012)
Episode 23x03: Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective (Nov 6, 2012)
Episode 23x04: Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story (Nov 12, 2012)
Episode 23x05: Lang Lang (Nov 12, 2012)
Episode 23x06: The Many Lives of William Klein (Nov 20, 2012)
Episode 23x07: How Music Makes Us Feel (Nov 27, 2012)
Episode 23x08: Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me (Dec 4, 2012)
Episode 23x09: A Beauty is Born: Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty (Dec 18, 2012)
Episode 24x01: Beyoncé: Life is But a Dream (Mar 28, 2013)
Episode 24x02: David Bowie - Cracked Actor (Apr 4, 2013)
Episode 24x03: Vivian Maier - Who Took Nanny's Pictures? (Jun 25, 2013)
Episode 24x04: McCullin (Jul 2, 2013)
Episode 24x05: Rod Stewart: Can't Stop Me Now (Jul 9, 2013)
Episode 24x06: Woody Allen: A Documentary - Part One (Jul 23, 2013)
Episode 24x07: Woody Allen: A Documentary - Part Two (Jul 24, 2013)
Episode 24x08: Zaha Hadid: Who Dares Wins (Jul 30, 2013)
Episode 25x01: Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin' (Oct 29, 2013)
Episode 25x02: Edmund de Waal: Make Pots or Die (Nov 5, 2013)
Episode 25x03: Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy (Nov 12, 2013)
Episode 25x04: Turning the Art World Inside Out (Nov 19, 2013)
Episode 25x05: Hitler, the Tiger, and Me (Nov 26, 2013)
Episode 25x06: Who's Afraid of Machiavelli? (Dec 3, 2013)
Episode 26x01: Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca (May 18, 2014)
Episode 26x02: Philip Roth Unleashed, Part One (May 20, 2014)
Episode 26x03: Philip Roth Unleashed, Part Two (May 27, 2014)
Episode 26x04: Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar (Jun 29, 2014)
Episode 27x01: The Art That Hitler Hated (Oct 28, 2014)
Episode 27x02: The Art That Hitler Hated: The Sins of the Fathers (Nov 4, 2014)
Episode 27x03: Bette Midler: The Divine Miss M (Nov 11, 2014)
Episode 27x04: Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On (Nov 11, 2014)
Episode 27x05: Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future (Nov 18, 2014)
Episode 27x06: The One and Only Mike Leigh (Nov 25, 2014)
Episode 27x07: Colm Toibin: His Mother's Son (Dec 2, 2014)
Episode 28x01: Frank Gehry: The Architect Says (Jun 23, 2015)
Episode 28x02: Jeff Koons: Diary of a Seducer (Jun 30, 2015)
Episode 28x03: Beware of Mr Baker (Jul 7, 2015)
Episode 28x04: Toni Morrison Remembers (Jul 14, 2015)
Episode 28x05: Richard Flanagan: Life After Death (Jul 21, 2015)
Episode 29x01: Shylock's Ghost (Oct 27, 2015)
Episode 29x02: Antony Gormley: Being Human (Nov 3, 2015)
Episode 29x03: My Curious Documentary (Nov 10, 2015)
Episode 29x04: The Last Impresario (Nov 17, 2015)
Episode 29x05: The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson (Nov 24, 2015)
Episode 29x06: David Chipperfield: A Place to Be (Dec 1, 2015)
Episode 29x07: Carlos Acosta: Cuba Calls (Dec 8, 2015)
Episode 30x01: One Night in 2012 - An Imagine Special (Jul 17, 2016)
Episode 30x02: Danger! Cornelia Parker (Jul 19, 2016)
Episode 30x03: Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself (Jul 26, 2016)
Episode 30x04: Sir Roderick Stewart: Can't Stop Me Now (Jul 31, 2016)
Episode 31x01: The Seven Killings of Marlon James (Oct 29, 2016)
Episode 31x02: The Triumph and Laments of William Kentridge (Nov 22, 2016)
Episode 31x03: Serial Killers - The Women Who Write Crime Fiction (Nov 29, 2016)
Episode 31x04: The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan (Dec 6, 2016)
Episode 31x05: Listen to Me Marlon (Jan 14, 2017)
Episode 31x06: She Spoke the Unspeakable (Feb 21, 2017)
Episode 31x07: Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (Feb 28, 2017)
Episode 31x08: Alice Neel: Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde (Mar 6, 2017)
Episode 31x09: Chris Ofili: The Caged Bird's Song (Jul 15, 2017)
Episode 32x01: Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (Jul 29, 2017)
Episode 32x02: Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned! (Aug 28, 2017)
Episode 32x03: Alma Deutscher: Finding Cinderella (Sep 4, 2017)
Episode 32x04: Cameron Mackintosh: The Musical Man (Sep 11, 2017)
Episode 33x01: Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room (Dec 2, 2017)
Episode 33x02: Mel Brooks: Unwrapped (Feb 17, 2018)
Episode 33x03: Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons (Mar 5, 2018)
Episode 33x04: Andrew Lloyd Webber: Memories (Mar 19, 2018)
Episode 33x05: Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words (Mar 26, 2018)
Episode 33x06: Habaneros: You Say You Want a Revolution? Part One (Apr 21, 2018)
Episode 33x07: Habaneros: You Say You Want a Revolution? Part Two (Apr 22, 2018)
Episode 34x01: Rupert Everett: Born to be Wilde (May 20, 2018)
Episode 34x02: Orhan Pamuk: A Strange Mind (May 27, 2018)
Episode 34x03: Rose Wylie: This Rose is Blooming (Jul 22, 2018)
Episode 34x04: Tacita Dean: Looking to See (Jul 29, 2018)
Episode 34x05: Hockney, the Queen and the Royal Peculiar (Oct 9, 2018)
Episode 34x06: George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up? (Oct 16, 2018)
Episode 34x07: Tracey Emin: Where Do You Draw The Line? (Oct 23, 2018)
Episode 34x08: Becoming Cary Grant (Oct 30, 2018)
Episode 34x09: Andrea Levy: Her Island Story (Dec 19, 2018)
Episode 35x01: James Graham: In the Room Where It Happens (Jan 21, 2019)
Episode 35x02: Jo Brand: No Holds Barred (Jan 28, 2019)
Episode 35x03: Bill Viola: The Road to St Paul's (Feb 4, 2019)
Episode 35x04: Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless (Jul 7, 2019)
Episode 35x05: Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is (Jul 14, 2019)
Episode 35x06: Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device (Jul 28, 2019)
Episode 35x07: EastSide Story (Sep 30, 2019)
Episode 36x01: Lenny Henry: Young, Gifted and Black (Jan 2, 2020)
Episode 36x02: This House Is Full of Music (Jul 12, 2020)
Episode 36x03: Lemn Sissay: The Memory of Me (Jul 23, 2020)
Episode 36x04: Kate Prince: Every Move She Makes (Jul 30, 2020)
Episode 36x05: My Name Is Kwame (Aug 6, 2020)
Episode 36x06: Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling (Oct 11, 2020)
Episode 37x01: We'll Be Back? (Feb 9, 2021)
Episode 37x02: Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting (Mar 28, 2021)
Episode 37x03: Bernardine Evaristo: Never Give Up (Sep 2, 2021)
Episode 37x04: Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life (Sep 9, 2021)
Episode 38x01: Marian Keyes: My (not so) Perfect Life (Feb 7, 2022)
Episode 38x02: Labi Siffre: This Is My Song (Feb 14, 2022)
Episode 38x03: Wayne McGregor: Dancing on the Edge (Feb 21, 2022)
Episode 38x04: Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs (Apr 25, 2022)
Episode 38x05: Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens (May 2, 2022)
Episode 38x06: Malorie Blackman: What If? (Oct 31, 2022)
Episode 38x07: Sonia Boyce: Finding Her Voice (Nov 7, 2022)
Episode 38x08: Douglas Stuart: Love, Hope and Grit (Nov 14, 2022)
Episode 39x01: Stephen Frears: Director for Hire (Mar 20, 2023)
Episode 39x02: The Factory: Made in Manchester (Dec 11, 2023)
Episode 39x03: Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me (Dec 18, 2023)
Episode 39x04: French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter (Dec 27, 2023)