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The Best Episodes of imagine… Season 6

Every episode of imagine… Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of imagine… Season 6!

The Best Episodes of imagine… Season 6

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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    #1 - Elgar and the Missing Concerto

    S6:E1

    Famous for his cello and violin concertos, it's not widely known that Edward Elgar also wrote sketches for a piano concerto. This often hilarious film shows how the embryonic piece - a performance of which follows - came to life.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #2 - Amos Oz: The Conscience of Israel

    S6:E2

    Alan Yentob presents a portrait of Israel's most celebrated writer and political commentator, Amos Oz, whose childhood memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness gives an eyewitness account of the birth of Israel. Yentob takes Oz back to the settings of the childhood in Israel and reveals a fascinating portrait of the early years of Israel, the tragic story of Oz's family and his widely respected views on the conflict with Palestine.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #3 - Chuck Close, Close Up

    S6:E3

    As a child, portrait painter Chuck Close was written off as a failure because his dyslexia remained undiagnosed. Then, in 1988, he was partially paralysed by a stroke. Undaunted by these hardships, he continued to paint and his latest work is on display at London's National Portrait Gallery. Alan Yentob meets the American artist in New York.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #4 - Rhythm Is It!

    S6:E4

    Can art change lives? Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra believe so - but can they convince 250 underprivileged teenagers from suburban Berlin? The aim is to stage Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps, and Royston Maldoom is the British choreographer who must persuade the reluctant youngsters to get their steps up to performance standard.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #5 - Sweet Home New Orleans

    S6:E5

    Could New Orleans's days as a great musical powerhouse be coming to an end? As Alan Yentob traces the city's vast musical heritage, he meets musicians who have lived and worked there all their lives and are determined to return despite the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. With contributions from Paul McCartney, Dr John, Jools Holland and Elvis Costello.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #6 - Warhol: Denied

    S6:E6

    The joy of some collectors at owning what they believed to be genuine Andy Warhol works has been ruined by the artist's authentication board's declaring them fake. They speak of their disillusionment here as Alan Yentob visits New York to investigate acquiring art by the “Pope of Pop”, while Warhol collaborators reveal his unusual working methods.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #7 - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Studio

    S6:E7

    Critics say the British sitcom is dead by virtue of its middle-aged, middle-class “appeal”. Why then are our finest comic writers and performers making prize-winning shows? As he talks to Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Armando Iannucci, Graham Linehan and Chris Langham - and makes a surprise entrance on My Family - Alan Yentob finds the genre in rude health.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #8 - Sitting Comfortably

    S6:E8

    Self-confessed chair addict Alan Yentob encounters a vast range of his objects of desire in this whimsical journey through the changing styles of the modern chair - a furniture item intimately and inextricably intertwined with the physicality of our everyday lives, whose look has been transformed over the centuries by designers such as Le Corbusier and Terence Conran , from hand-crafted descendants of royal thrones to wipe-clean plastic garden chairs.

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Season 6 Ratings Summary

"Elgar and the Missing Concerto" is the best rated episode of "imagine…" season 6. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/23/2005. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Amos Oz: The Conscience of Israel".