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The Best Episodes of imagine… Season 14

Every episode of imagine… Season 14 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of imagine… Season 14!

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    imagine… Season 14 Episode 1 - The Story of the Guitar: Episode 1: In the Beginning
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    #1 - The Story of the Guitar: Episode 1: In the Beginning

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    Alan Yentob embarks on a three-part personal journey to discover how the guitar became the world's favourite musical instrument. Beginning with the rise of the acoustic guitar, the series takes him from an ancient Middle Eastern ancestor of the lute, to the iconic guitars draped round the necks of Bill Hailey and Elvis Presley and beyond. Featuring interviews with Bert Weedon - the man who taught Britain to 'Play in a Day', Pete Townshend, Bill Bailey, flamenco player Paco Pena and classical guitarist John Williams.

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  2. imagine… Season 14 Episode 2 - The Story of the Guitar: Episode 2: Out of the Frying Pan
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    #2 - The Story of the Guitar: Episode 2: Out of the Frying Pan

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    Alan Yentob presents a three-part series examining how the guitar became the world's favourite musical instrument. As the guitar turns electric, music is changed for ever. The world's first electric guitar had nothing to do with jazz or blues, but Hawaiian-style music and was known as the 'frying pan'. Yentob continues his investigation from the blues of the Mississippi to the guitar wars of the 1950s, when the Fender Stratocaster and the Gibson Les Paul were battling for supremacy.

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  3. imagine… Season 14 Episode 3 - Dangerous Liaison: When Akram met Juliette
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    #3 - Dangerous Liaison: When Akram met Juliette

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    Following British-Bangladeshi choreographer Akram Khan as he takes the risk of his life. He has just months to teach Oscar-winning French actress Juliette Binoche to dance. She must also be confident enough to perform with her teacher in front of the National Theatre's discerning audience. Akram, for his part, will attempt to learn to act. Interviewees include Juliette Binoche, Sylvie Guillem, Joseph Fiennes, Antony Gormley, Nitin Sawhney and Anish Kapoor.

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  4. imagine… Season 14 Episode 4 - The Story of the Guitar: Episode 3: This Time it's Personal
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    #4 - The Story of the Guitar: Episode 3: This Time it's Personal

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    In the final programme of the series the guitarists talk about how they find their own sound, and how the guitar has changed their lives. Since its invention, the electric guitar has unleashed a seemingly inexhaustible sonic invention among guitarists. Featuring Muse's Matt Bellamy, who turns out to be following in his father's space age footsteps, Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath, who talks about the invention of heavy metal, David Gilmour from Pink Floyd, Pete Townshend (Perhaps equally famous for smashing guitars), Johnny Marr from the Smiths on 'the mother of all riffs', Slash and The Edge from U2 among many others.

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  5. imagine… Season 14 Episode 5 - A Love Story
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    #5 - A Love Story

    S14:E5

    Alan Yentob embarks on a quest to find out what makes a great love story in literature, film or song. Among those offering their help in this labour of love are author Jeffrey Eugenides and lyricist Hal David.

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  6. imagine… Season 14 Episode 6 - Jay-Z: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered
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    #6 - Jay-Z: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered

    S14:E6

    Alan Yentob explores the life and work of Jay-Z, following the rapper over a period of six months.

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  7. imagine… Season 14 Episode 7 - Let There Be Light
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    #7 - Let There Be Light

    S14:E7

    Alan Yentob meets artists who use light as both the source and inspiration for their work, including American James Turrell.

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  8. imagine… Season 14 Episode 8 - How an Orchestra Saved Venezuela's Children
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    #8 - How an Orchestra Saved Venezuela's Children

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    The Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, which caused a sensation at last year's Proms, is the product of an extraordinary music education system that has been running for more than 30 years. Children as young as two get intensive music lessons designed to steer them away from the dangers of the street. With Scotland now trying its own version of the scheme, Alan Yentob investigates the phenomenon and meets its most successful graduate, 27-year-old conductor Gustavo Dudamel, who next year becomes music director of the LA Philharmonic.

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  9. imagine… Season 14 Episode 9 - Richard Serra: Man of Steel
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    #9 - Richard Serra: Man of Steel

    S14:E9

    Sculptor and giant of modern art Richard Serra discusses his extraordinary life and work. A creator of enormous, immediately identifiable steel sculptures that both terrify and mesmerise, Serra believes that each viewer creates the sculpture for themselves by being within it. To this end, a Japanese family are reminded of the Temples of Kyoto, a Londoner finds sanctuary in the Serra near Liverpool Street station, and most movingly, a Holocaust survivor sees one piece as a wall separating the living from the dead.

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  10. imagine… Season 14 Episode 10 - Heavy Metal in Baghdad
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    #10 - Heavy Metal in Baghdad

    S14:E10

    Rock doc Heavy Metal in Baghdad follows the struggles of Iraq's one and only metal band, Acrassicauda, and tells its own story about the horror of daily life in the war-torn city. Following the documentary's limited cinema release Imagine presents an edited down version of that film, then picks up the story as the four band members have fled Iraq and are attempting to re-form their band in the West. Lost in a nightmare of bureaucracy, the four young musicians hold onto their dream, which is simply to play their music.

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Season 14 Ratings Summary

"The Story of the Guitar: Episode 1: In the Beginning" is the best rated episode of "imagine…" season 14. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/5/2008. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Story of the Guitar: Episode 2: Out of the Frying Pan".