Series 1 (from 11 June 2003):
Series 2 (from 12 November 2003):
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"The Voice of Bryn Terfel"
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"A Funny Business" – A look at British and American sitcoms
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"John Soane – Entertaining Mr Soane"
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"Martin Parr – The World According to Parr"
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"From Pencils to Pixels" – Celebrating the phenomenon of the animated feature film
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"An A-Z of the OED"
Series 3 (from 2 June 2004):
Series 4 (from 24 November 2004):
Series 5 (from 11 May 2005):
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"A Short History of Tall Buildings" (3 parts)
Series 6 (from 22 June 2005):
Series 7 (from 23 November 2005):
Series 8 (from 17 January 2006)
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"Sweet Home New Orleans" – examining the city's musical heritage
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"Andy Warhol – Warhol Denied"
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"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Studio"
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"Sitting Comfortably" – Tracing the changing styles of the modern chair
Series 9 (from 23 May 2006)
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"Being Hamlet" – about actor Wayne Cater as he prepares to play Hamlet
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"The Artist Formerly Known As Cat Stevens" – telling the story of pop star Cat Stevens and how he became Yusuf Islam.
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"The Ingenious Thomas Heatherwick"
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"A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin"
Series 10 (from 17 October 2006)
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"Peter Pan: a Hard Act to Follow"
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"Velazquez, the Painter's Painter"
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"A Play for Today" – about Jeremy Weller's play, The Foolish Young Man
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"The Movie Brats, Take Two" – about a group of maverick American directors
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"Who Cares About Art?" – follows the work of five art curators
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"Hans Holbein, International Man of Mystery"
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"Being a Diva" – about operatic divas
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www.herecomeseverybody.co.uk – a history of the World Wide Web
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"And Then There Was Television" – about the early days of television
Special (27 December 2006)
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"The Beatles in Love" – documenting the creation of The Beatles project Love
Series 11 (from 8 May 2007)
Special (4 July 2007)
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"Damon and Jamie's Excellent Adventure" – documentary about cartoon pop group Gorillaz' foray into opera
Series 12 (from 23 October 2007)
Series 13 (from 23 May 2008)
Series 14 (from 5 October 2008)
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"The Story of the Guitar – In the Beginning"
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"The Story of the Guitar – Out of the Frying Pan"
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"Dangerous Liaisons: When Akram Met Juliette"
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"The Story of the Guitar – This Time It's Personal"
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"A Love Story"
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"Jay-Z: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered"
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"Let There Be Light"
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"How an Orchestra Saved Venezuela's Children"
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"Richard Serra: Man of Steel"
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"Heavy Metal in Baghdad"
Series 15 (from 23 June 2009)
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"Save the Last Dance for Me: The Company of Elders"
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"David Hockney – A Bigger Picture"
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"Rufus Wainwright – Prima Donna"
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"William Eggleston – The Colourful Mr Eggleston"
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"Art in Troubled Times: A New Deal for Art"
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"Art in Troubled Times: The Home Front"
Series 16 (from 17 November 2009)
Series 17 (from 5 April 2010)
Series 18 (from 15 June 2010)
Series 19 (from 16 November 2010)
Special (23 February 2011)
The Trouble with Tolstoy (from 27 March 2011)
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"At War with Himself"
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"In Search of Happiness"
Series 20 (from 28 June 2011)
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"The Man Who Forgot How to Read and Other Stories"
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"The Pharaohs' Museum on Liberation Square"
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"Lennon: The New York Years"
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"Harry Nilsson: The Missing Beatle"
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"Iraq in Venice"
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"U2: From the Sky Down"
Series 21 (from 1 November 2011)
Series 22 (from 26 June 2012)
Series 23 (from 19 September 2012)
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"The Fatwa – Salman's Story"
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"Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender"
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"Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective"
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"Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story"
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"The Many Lives of William Klein"[2][3]
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"How Music Makes Us Feel"
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"Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me"
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"A Beauty is Born: Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty"
Series 24 (from 28 March 2013)
Series 25 (from 5 Nov 2013)
Series 26 (from 18 May 2014)
Series 27 (from Winter 2014)
Series 28 (from Summer 2015)
Series 29 (from Autumn 2015)
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"Shylock's Ghost"
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"Antony Gormley: Being Human"
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"My Curious Documentary"
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"The Last Impresario"
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"The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson"
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"David Chipperfield: A Place to Be"
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"Carlos Acosta: Cuba Calls"
Summer 2016
Shorts (2016-7)
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"The Handmade Films of William Kentridge - Part 1"
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"The Handmade Films of William Kentridge - Part 2"
Autumn 2016
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"The Seven Killings of Marlon James"
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"The Triumph and Laments of William Kentridge"
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"Serial Killers - The Women Who Write Crime Fiction"
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"The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan"
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"Listen to Me Marlon"
Winter 2016
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"She Spoke the Unspeakable"
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"Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise"
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"Alice Neel: Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde"
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"Chris Ofili - The Caged Bird's Song"
Summer 2017
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"Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures"
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"Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned!"
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"Alma Deutscher: Finding Cinderella"
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"Cameron Mackintosh: The Musical Man"
Winter 2017-8
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"Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room"
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"Mel Brooks: Unwrapped"
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"Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons"
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"Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words"
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"Andrew Lloyd Webber: Memories"
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"Habaneros: You Say You Want a Revolution? Part One"
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"Habaneros: You Say You Want a Revolution? Part Two"
2018
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"Rupert Everett: Born to be Wilde"
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"Orhan Pamuk: A Strange Mind"
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"Rose Wylie: This Rose Is Blooming"
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"Tacita Dean: Looking to See"
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"Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar"
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"George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?"
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"Tracey Emin: Where Do You Draw the Line?"
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"Becoming Cary Grant"
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"Andrea Levy: Her Island Story"
2019
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"James Graham: In the Room Where It Happens"
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"Jo Brand: No Holds Barred"
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"Bill Viola: The Road to St Paul's"
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"Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless"
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"Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is"
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"Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device"
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"EastSide Story"
2020
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"This House is Full of Music"
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"Lemn Sissay: The Memory of Me"
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"Kate Prince: Every Move She Makes"
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"Kwame Kwei-Armah: ... My Name is Kwame"[4]
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"Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling"
2021[5][6]
2022[9]
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"Marian Keyes: My (not so) Perfect Life"[10]
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"Labi Siffre: This Is My Song"[11]
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"Wayne McGregor: Dancing on the Edge"[12]
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"Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs"[13][14]
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"Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens"[15]
2023
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“Stephen Frears: Director for Hire”
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“The Factory: Made in Manchester”
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“French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter”
Other (2006)
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Imagine... A Mildly Amusing Panel Show – a special highlights edition of Never Mind the Buzzcocks, a parody of the Imagine series, presented by Yentob himself.