imagine…: Summer 2009
Season 15 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of imagine… Season 14.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 15 Progress Shield
Save the Last Dance for Me
Jun 23, 2009 · 52 min
At an age when most people are content to take it easy, one group of pensioners have taken up contemporary dance for the first time. Alan Yentob follows them on their journey as th
David Hockney - A Bigger Picture
Jun 30, 2009 · 60 min
Filmed over three years with unprecedented access, this documentary captures the return from California of England's favourite living artist. As Hockney approaches the age of 70,
Rufus Wainwright, Prima Donna
Jul 7, 2009 · 55 min
Alan Yentob explores the rapid rise of one of modern music's most mercurial talents, Rufus Wainwright. Wainwright talks candidly about his background, his family of musical lumina
The Colourful Mr Eggleston
Jul 14, 2009 · 50 min
William Eggleston is one of the most influential and original photographers alive today. A Mississippi aristocrat with a fondness for guns, drink and women, he dragged colour into
Art in Troubled Times: A New Deal for Art
Jul 21, 2009 · 50 min
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
Art In Troubled Times: Part II - The Home Front
Jul 28, 2009 · 50 min
In times like these, what is art worth? And what is art for? The big moment for publicly funded art in Britain was the Second World War. "Something absolutely remarkable happened