Alan Yentob — Editor

Episodes 8

She Spoke the Unspeakable

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February 21, 20171h
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The author Nawal El Saadawi was a global legend. First shown in 2017 when she was 85, imagine... visited her in Cairo and travels with her to the village where she was born.

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Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

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February 28, 20171h 33m
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Documentary portrait of the trail-blazing activist, poet and writer Maya Angelou. Born in 1928, she enthused generations with her bold and inspirational championing of the African American experience that pushed boundaries and redefined the way people think about race and culture.

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Alice Neel: Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde

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March 7, 20171h 30m
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A portrait of a remarkable artist. American painter Alice Neel was an extraordinary and prolific figurative painter, and yet she spent most of her life working in obscurity.

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Chris Ofili - The Caged Bird's Song

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Season Finale
July 15, 2017
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Alan Yentob follows the celebrated Turner Prize-winning British artist Chris Ofili as he creates a spectacular contemporary tapestry - The Caged Bird's Song.

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Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

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July 29, 20171h 45m
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An unflinching and uncompromising portrait of one of the most controversial photographers.

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Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned!

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August 28, 20171h
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Alan Yentob meets acclaimed writer Margaret Atwood in Toronto and discovers how a childhood spent between the Canadian wilderness and the city helped shape her.

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Alma Deutscher: Finding Cinderella

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September 4, 20171h
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Alan Yentob meets musical prodigy Alma Deutscher. Aged 11, she is staging her first full-length opera, Cinderella. Composer, pianist, violinist... Alma learned to read music before she could read words. She began playing the piano aged two and at four years old she was composing her own music.

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Cameron Mackintosh: The Musical Man

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Season Finale
September 11, 20171h 27m
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Sir Cameron Mackintosh was once a theatre stagehand on Drury Lane and is now a musical theatre impresario, with a career spanning 50 years and a catalogue of musical theatre hits to his name - including Cats, Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera and Miss Saigon - and he is now about to launch the US hit musical Hamilton in London.

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