Imagine ... - Airing times and Episode listing

Season 1

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s01e01	The Saatchi Phenomenon	Wed, 11 Jun 2003
s01e02	Barbara Hepworth: Shapes Out of Feelings	Wed, 18 Jun 2003
s01e03	The Hip Hop Generation	Wed, 25 Jun 2003
s01e04	Stella's Story	Wed, 2 Jul 2003
s01e05	Carlos Acosta: The Reluctant Ballet Dancer	Wed, 9 Jul 2003
s01e06	The Potrait of Omai	Wed, 16 Jul 2003
s01e07	John Mortimer: Owning Up at 80	Wed, 23 Jul 2003

Season 2

▲▼ (6 episodes)

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s02e01	The Voice of Bryn Terfel	Wed, 12 Nov 2003
s02e02	A Funny Business	Wed, 19 Nov 2003
s02e03	Entertaining Mr Soane	Wed, 26 Nov 2003
s02e04	The World According to Parr	Wed, 3 Dec 2003
s02e05	From Pencils to Pixels	Wed, 10 Dec 2003
s02e06	An A-Z of the OED	Wed, 17 Dec 2003

Season 3

▲▼ (6 episodes)

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s03e01	The Mysterious Mr Hopper	Wed, 2 Jun 2004
s03e02	Sitting for Lucian Freud	Wed, 9 Jun 2004
s03e03	Saint John Coltrane	Wed, 16 Jun 2004
s03e04	Dirty But Clean Pierre	Wed, 23 Jun 2004
s03e05	Unsuitable for Children?	Wed, 30 Jun 2004
s03e06	Simon Gray's Smoking Diaries	Wed, 7 Jul 2004

Season 4

▲▼ (5 episodes)

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s04e01	Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture	Wed, 24 Nov 2004
s04e02	Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson's Smile	Wed, 1 Dec 2004
s04e03	Bruce Nauman: The Godfather of Modern Art	Wed, 8 Dec 2004
s04e04	Brando	Wed, 15 Dec 2004
s04e05	Antonio Pappano: A Year at the Opera	Wed, 22 Dec 2004

Season 5

▲▼ (3 episodes)

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s05e01	Fantastic Mr Dahl	Wed, 22 Jun 2005
s05e02	Frida Kahlo	Wed, 29 Jun 2005
s05e03	Being a Concert Pianist	Wed, 6 Jul 2005

Season 6

▲▼ (4 episodes)

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s06e01	Elgar and the Missing Concerto	Wed, 23 Nov 2005
s06e02	Amos Oz: The Conscience of Israel	Wed, 30 Nov 2005
s06e03	Chuck Close, Close Up	Wed, 7 Dec 2005
s06e04	Rhythm Is It!	Wed, 14 Dec 2005

Season 7

▲▼ (4 episodes)

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s07e01	Sweet Home New Orleans	Tue, 17 Jan 2006
s07e02	Andy Warhol: Denied	Tue, 24 Jan 2006
s07e03	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Studio	Tue, 31 Jan 2006
s07e04	Sitting Comfortably	Tue, 7 Feb 2006

Season 8

▲▼ (4 episodes)

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s08e01	Being Hamlet	Tue, 23 May 2006
s08e02	Yusuf, the Artist Formerly Known as Cat Stevens	Tue, 30 May 2006
s08e03	The Ingenious Thomas Heatherwick	Tue, 6 Jun 2006
s08e04	A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin	Tue, 13 Jun 2006

Season 9

▲▼ (9 episodes)

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s09e01	Peter Pan, A Hard Act to Follow	Tue, 17 Oct 2006
s09e02	Velazquez, The Painter's Painter	Tue, 24 Oct 2006
s09e03	A Play for Today	Tue, 31 Oct 2006
s09e04	The Movie Brats. Take Two	Tue, 7 Nov 2006
s09e05	Who Cares About Art?	Tue, 14 Nov 2006
s09e06	Hans Holbein: International Man of Mystery	Tue, 21 Nov 2006
s09e07	Being a Diva	Tue, 28 Nov 2006
s09e08	www.herecomeseverybody.co.uk	Tue, 5 Dec 2006
s09e09	And Then There Was Television	Tue, 19 Dec 2006

Season 10

▲▼ (4 episodes)

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s10e01	Gilbert And George: No Surrender	Tue, 8 May 2007
s10e02	Stealing Klimt	Tue, 15 May 2007
s10e03	Scott Walker	Tue, 22 May 2007
s10e04	It's The Surreal Thing	Tue, 29 May 2007

Season 11

▲▼ (5 episodes)

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s11e01	Henry Perkins: Bolshoi Boy	Tue, 23 Oct 2007
s11e02	Bollywood's Big B	Tue, 30 Oct 2007
s11e03	Helvetica	Tue, 6 Nov 2007
s11e04	Louise Bourgeois: Spiderwoman	Tue, 13 Nov 2007
s11e05	How to Get on in the Art World	Tue, 20 Nov 2007

Season 12

▲▼ (3 episodes)

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s12e01	The Secret of Life	Tue, 19 Feb 2008
s12e02	Richard Rogers, Inside Out	Tue, 26 Feb 2008
s12e03	Mark Newson: Urban Spaceman	Tue, 4 Mar 2008

Season 13

▲▼ (7 episodes)

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s13e01	Doris Lessing: The Reluctant Heroine	Tue, 27 May 2008
s13e02	Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and The Brain	Tue, 3 Jun 2008
s13e03	Annie Leibovitz, Life Through A Lens	Tue, 10 Jun 2008
s13e04	A Trip to Asia: On the Road with the Berlin Philharmonic	Tue, 17 Jun 2008
s13e05	A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami	Tue, 24 Jun 2008
s13e06	Werner Herzog: Beyond Reason	Tue, 1 Jul 2008
s13e07	Love, Loss and Anthony Minghella	Tue, 8 Jul 2008

Season 14

▲▼ (7 episodes)

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s14e01	Dangerous Liaison: When Akram met Juliette	Tue, 14 Oct 2008
s14e02	A Love Story	Tue, 21 Oct 2008
s14e03	Jay-Z: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered	Tue, 28 Oct 2008
s14e04	Let There Be Light	Tue, 11 Nov 2008
s14e05	How an Orchestra Saved Venezuela's Children	Tue, 18 Nov 2008
s14e06	Richard Serra: Man of Steel	Tue, 25 Nov 2008
s14e07	Heavy Metal in Baghdad	Tue, 2 Dec 2008

Season 15

▲▼ (7 episodes)

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s15e01	Save the Last Dance for Me	Tue, 23 Jun 2009
s15e02	David Hockney: A Bigger Picture	Tue, 30 Jun 2009
s15e03	Rufus Wainwright: Prima Donna	Tue, 7 Jul 2009
s15e04	The Colourful Mr Eggleston	Tue, 14 Jul 2009
s15e05	Art in Troubled Times: A New Deal for Art	Tue, 21 Jul 2009
s15e06	The Smoking Diaries Update	Sat, 25 Jul 2009
s15e07	Art in Troubled Times: The Home Front	Tue, 28 Jul 2009

Season 16

▲▼ (6 episodes)

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s16e01	The Year Of Anish Kapoor	Tue, 17 Nov 2009
s16e02	Dame Shirley Bassey: The Girl From Tiger Bay	Tue, 24 Nov 2009
s16e03	Own Art	Tue, 1 Dec 2009
s16e04	Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound	Tue, 8 Dec 2009
s16e05	Plácido Domingo: The Time of My Life	Tue, 15 Dec 2009
s16e06	Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles	Tue, 22 Dec 2009

Season 17

▲▼ (4 episodes)

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s17e01	Nigel Kennedy's Polish Adventure	Tue, 15 Jun 2010
s17e02	Art is Child's Play	Tue, 22 Jun 2010
s17e03	Growing Old Disgracefully	Tue, 29 Jun 2010
s17e04	Tom Jones: What Good Am I?	Tue, 6 Jul 2010

Season 18

▲▼ (6 episodes)

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s18e01	Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour	Tue, 16 Nov 2010
s18e02	Smash His Camera	Tue, 23 Nov 2010
s18e03	The Weird World Of Eadweard Muybridge	Tue, 30 Nov 2010
s18e04	Bruce Springsteen: Darkness Revisited	Tue, 7 Dec 2010
s18e05	Ben-Hur	Tue, 14 Dec 2010
s18e06	Ray Davies: Imaginary Man	Tue, 21 Dec 2010

Season 19

▲▼ (5 episodes)

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s19e01	The Man Who Forgot How to Read and Other Stories	Tue, 28 Jun 2011
s19e02	The Pharaohs' Museum on Liberation Square	Tue, 5 Jul 2011
s19e03	Lennon: The New York Years	Tue, 12 Jul 2011
s19e04	Harry Nilsson: The Missing Beatle	Tue, 19 Jul 2011
s19e05	Iraq in Venice	Tue, 26 Jul 2011

Season 20

▲▼ (8 episodes)

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s20e01	Grayson Perry: The Tomb Of The Unknown Craftsman	Tue, 1 Nov 2011
s20e02	Simon & Garfunkel: The Harmony Game	Tue, 8 Nov 2011
s20e03	Alan Ayckbourn: Greetings from Scarborough	Tue, 15 Nov 2011
s20e04	Vidal Sassoon: A Cut Above	Tue, 22 Nov 2011
s20e05	The Lost Music of Rajasthan	Tue, 6 Dec 2011
s20e06	Books: The Last Chapter?	Tue, 13 Dec 2011
s20e07	The Art of Stand-Up (1)	Mon, 19 Dec 2011
s20e08	The Art of Stand-Up (2)	Tue, 20 Dec 2011

Season 21

▲▼ (5 episodes)

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s21e01	Theatre of War	Tue, 26 Jun 2012
s21e02	Paul Simon's Graceland: Under African Skies	Tue, 3 Jul 2012
s21e03	Just One Falsetto	Tue, 10 Jul 2012
s21e04	Glasgow: The Grit and The Glamour	Tue, 17 Jul 2012
s21e05	Dancing with Titian	Tue, 24 Jul 2012

Season 22

▲▼ (6 episodes)

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s22e01	Ian Rankin And The Case Of The Disappearing Detective	Tue, 6 Nov 2012
s22e02	Do or Die: Lang Lang’s Story	Mon, 12 Nov 2012
s22e03	The Many Lives of William Klein	Tue, 20 Nov 2012
s22e04	How Music Makes Us Feel	Tue, 27 Nov 2012
s22e05	Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me	Tue, 4 Dec 2012
s22e06	A Beauty Is Born: Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty	Tue, 18 Dec 2012

Season 23

▲▼ (6 episodes)

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s23e01	Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?	Tue, 25 Jun 2013
s23e02	McCullin	Tue, 2 Jul 2013
s23e03	Rod Stewart: Can't Stop Me Now	Tue, 9 Jul 2013
s23e04	Woody Allen: A Documentary Part 1	Tue, 23 Jul 2013
s23e05	Woody Allen: A Documentary Part 2	Wed, 24 Jul 2013
s23e06	Zaha Hadid: Who Dares Wins	Wed, 31 Jul 2013

Season 24

▲▼ (6 episodes)

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s24e01	Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'	Tue, 29 Oct 2013
s24e02	Edmund de Waal: Make Pots or Die	Tue, 5 Nov 2013
s24e03	Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy	Tue, 12 Nov 2013
s24e04	Turning the Art World Inside Out	Tue, 19 Nov 2013
s24e05	Hitler, the Tiger and Me	Tue, 26 Nov 2013
s24e06	Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?	Tue, 3 Dec 2013

Season 25

▲▼ (4 episodes)

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s25e01	Rio 50° - Carry on CaRIOca	Sun, 18 May 2014
s25e02	Philip Roth Unleashed Part 1	Tue, 20 May 2014
s25e03	Philip Roth Unleashed Part 2	Tue, 27 May 2014
s25e04	Monty Python: And Now For Something Rather Similar	Sun, 29 Jun 2014

Season 26

▲▼ (8 episodes)

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s26e01	Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny’s Pictures?	Tue, 5 Aug 2014
s26e02	The Art That Hitler Hated	Tue, 28 Oct 2014
s26e03	The Art That Hitler Hated: The Sins Of The Fathers	Tue, 4 Nov 2014
s26e04	Bette Midler: The Divine Miss M	Tue, 11 Nov 2014
s26e05	Anselm Kiefer	Tue, 18 Nov 2014
s26e06	Mike Leigh	Tue, 25 Nov 2014
s26e07	Colm Toibin: A Widow's Son	Tue, 2 Dec 2014
s26e08	Jeff Koons	Tue, 9 Dec 2014

Season 27

▲▼ (5 episodes)

Episode #	Title	Airing date
s27e01	Frank Gehry	Tue, 23 Jun 2015
s27e02	Jeff Koons: Diary Of A Seducer	Tue, 30 Jun 2015
s27e03	Beware of Mr Baker	Tue, 7 Jul 2015
s27e04	Toni Morrison Remembers	Tue, 14 Jul 2015
s27e05	Richard Flanagan: Life After Death	Tue, 21 Jul 2015