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Season 3
The career of the reclusive artist Edward Hopper is covered in this beautifully-filmed episode. Includes interviews with Hopper's biographer, his friends and admirers such as Sam Mendes
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The career of the reclusive artist Edward Hopper is covered in this beautifully-filmed episode. Includes interviews with Hopper's biographer, his friends and admirers such as Sam Mendes and Jonathan Miller, along with archive clips of the artist and his indomitable wife, Jo.
Arts series presented by Alan Yentob. An intimate look at one of Britain's greatest painters, Lucian Freud, as told by the people who knew him best - the sitters seen in his extraordinary portraits.
Arts series presented by Alan Yentob. An intimate look at one of Britain's greatest painters, Lucian Freud, as told by the people who knew him best - the sitters seen in his extraordinary portraits.
On the 40th anniversary of his most famous record, A Love Supreme, Alan Yentob examines the legend of jazz saxophonist John Coltrane whose obsession with music is matched by an equally obsessive following all over the world.
On the 40th anniversary of his most famous record, A Love Supreme, Alan Yentob examines the legend of jazz saxophonist John Coltrane whose obsession with music is matched by an equally obsessive following all over the world.
With Vernon God Little , his 2003 Booker Prize-winning debut novel, writer and self-confessed conman DBC Pierre, aka Australian-born Peter Finlay , became the most controversial
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With Vernon God Little , his 2003 Booker Prize-winning debut novel, writer and self-confessed conman DBC Pierre, aka Australian-born Peter Finlay , became the most controversial character to win the award. Alan Yentob joins the enigmatic novelist on a road trip across Texas and Mexico, exploring locations central to the book and the house where Pierre grew up, in a bid to find out the truth behind the bizarre stories of serial mendacity and drug addiction.
Is modern children's fiction a dangerously influential portrayal of a degraded culture or an instruction manual for life in the 21st century? Along with contributions from authors
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Is modern children's fiction a dangerously influential portrayal of a degraded culture or an instruction manual for life in the 21st century? Along with contributions from authors including Salman Rushdie , Alan Yentob analyses the aptness of material that covers sex, drug taking, racial murder and the death of God.
Marking the publication of Simon Gray's latest book, The Smoking Diaries, Alan Yentob draws a rare insight into one of Britain's foremost playwrights, author of many West End hits, but
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Marking the publication of Simon Gray's latest book, The Smoking Diaries, Alan Yentob draws a rare insight into one of Britain's foremost playwrights, author of many West End hits, but best know for his work with Harold Pinter and as writer of the notorious Cell Mates. This intimate tribute gives a darkly entertaining account of his childhood experiences and very personal views on addictions to smoking and alcohol.
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