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TV-14
7.5
2003
Documentary
, News
The biggest names from the world of art, film, music, literature and dance. Alan Yentob gets close up with those shaping today's cultural world.
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Episode 103 : Episode 103
January. 01,0001
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Episode 102 : Episode 102
January. 01,0001
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Episode 101 : Episode 11
January. 01,0001
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Episode 6 : The Smoking Diaries
December. 15,2004
Playwright and author Simon Gray 's recent autobiography offers a turbulent mixture of memoir and anecdote and charts his addictions to smoking and alcohol. To mark its publication and the opening of his latest play The Old Masters, Alan Yentob presents a rare insight into the 50-year career of one of Britain's foremost dramatists.
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Episode 5 : Unsuitable for Children?
December. 15,2004
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.
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Episode 2 : Sitting for Lucian Freud
June. 09,2004
Now in his 80s, British artist Lucian Freud has always been at pains to preserve his privacy. Reasoning that the next best thing to interviewing the artist would be to talk to those with whom he has isolated himself day and night, director Jake Auerbach spent two years filming the often famous subjects of Freud's portraits - and gained an intimate insight into one of Britain's greatest living painters.
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