| Episode # |
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Air Date |
Titles |
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| Season 1 |
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| 1. | 1-1 | 11 Jun 03 | The Saatchi Phenomenon |
| 2. | 1-2 | 18 Jun 03 | Barbara Hepworth, Shapes out of Feelings |
| 3. | 1-3 | 25 Jun 03 | The Hip-Hop Generation |
| 4. | 1-4 | 02 Jul 03 | Stella's Story |
| 5. | 1-5 | 09 Jul 03 | Carlos Acosta, the Reluctant Ballet Dancer |
| 6. | 1-6 | 16 Jul 03 | The Portrait of Omai |
| 7. | 1-7 | 23 Jul 03 | John Mortimer Owning up at 80 |
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| Season 2 |
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| 8. | 2-1 | 12 Nov 03 | The Voice of Bryn Terfel |
| 9. | 2-2 | 19 Nov 03 | A Funny Business |
| 10. | 2-3 | 26 Nov 03 | Entertaining Mr Soane |
| 11. | 2-4 | 03 Dec 03 | The World According to Parr |
| 12. | 2-5 | 10 Dec 03 | From Pencils to Pixels |
| 13. | 2-6 | 17 Dec 03 | An A-Z of the OED |
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| Season 3 |
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| 14. | 3-1 | 02 Jun 04 | The Mysterious Mr Hopper |
| 15. | 3-2 | 09 Jun 04 | Sitting for Lucian Freud |
| 16. | 3-3 | 16 Jun 04 | Saint John Coltrane |
| 17. | 3-4 | 23 Jun 04 | Dirty But Clean Pierre |
| 18. | 3-5 | 30 Jun 04 | Unsuitable for Children? |
| 19. | 3-6 | 07 Jul 04 | Simon Gray's Smoking Diaries |
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| Season 4 |
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| 20. | 4-1 | 24 Nov 04 | Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture |
| 21. | 4-2 | 01 Dec 04 | Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson's Smile |
| 22. | 4-3 | 08 Dec 04 | Bruce Nauman: The Godfather of Modern Art |
| 23. | 4-4 | 15 Dec 04 | Marlon Brando |
| 24. | 4-5 | 22 Dec 04 | Antonio Pappano: A Year at the Opera |
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| Season 5 |
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| 25. | 5-1 | 11 May 05 | A Short History of Tall Buildings - Episode 1 |
| 26. | 5-2 | 18 May 05 | A Short History of Tall Buildings - Episode 2 |
| 27. | 5-3 | 25 May 05 | A Short History of Tall Buildings - Episode 3 |
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| Season 6 |
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| 28. | 6-1 | 22 Jun 05 | Fantastic Mr Dahl |
| 29. | 6-2 | 29 Jun 05 | Frida Kahlo |
| 30. | 6-3 | 06 Jun 05 | Being a Concert Pianist |
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| Season 7 |
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| 31. | 7-1 | 23 Nov 05 | Elgar and the Missing Concerto |
| 32. | 7-2 | 30 Nov 05 | Amos Oz: The Conscience of Israel |
| 33. | 7-3 | 07 Dec 05 | Chuck Close, Close Up |
| 34. | 7-4 | 14 Dec 05 | Rhythm Is It! |
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| Season 8 |
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| 35. | 8-1 | 17 Jan 06 | Sweet Home New Orleans |
| 36. | 8-2 | 24 Jan 06 | Andy Warhol: Denied |
| 37. | 8-3 | 31 Jan 06 | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Studio |
| 38. | 8-4 | 07 Feb 06 | Sitting Comfortably |
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| Season 9 |
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| 39. | 9-1 | 23 May 06 | Being Hamlet |
| 40. | 9-2 | 30 May 06 | Yusuf, the Artist Formerly Known as Cat Stevens |
| 41. | 9-3 | 06 Jun 06 | The Ingenious Thomas Heatherwick |
| 42. | 9-4 | 13 Jun 06 | A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin |
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| Season 10 |
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| 43. | 10-1 | 17 Oct 06 | Peter Pan, a Hard Act to Follow |
| 44. | 10-2 | 24 Oct 06 | Velazquez, The Painter's Painter |
| 45. | 10-3 | 31 Oct 06 | A Play for Today |
| 46. | 10-4 | 07 Nov 06 | The Movie Brats, Take Two |
| 47. | 10-5 | 14 Nov 06 | Who Cares About Art? |
| 48. | 10-6 | 21 Nov 06 | Hans Holbein, International Man of Mystery |
| 49. | 10-7 | 28 Nov 06 | Being a Diva |
| 50. | 10-8 | 19 Dec 06 | www.herecomeseverybody.co.uk |
| 51. | 10-9 | 19 Dec 06 | And Then There Was Television |
| 52. | 10-10 | 27 Dec 06 | The Beatles in Love |
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| Season 11 |
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| 53. | 11-1 | 08 May 07 | Gilbert and George: No Surrender |
| 54. | 11-2 | 15 May 07 | Stealing Klimt |
| 55. | 11-3 | 22 May 07 | Scott Walker |
| 56. | 11-4 | 29 May 07 | It's The Surreal Thing |
| 57. | 11-5 | 04 Jul 07 | Damon and Jamie's Excellent Adventure |
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| Season 12 |
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| 58. | 12-1 | 23 Oct 07 | Henry Perkins: Bolshoi Boy |
| 59. | 12-2 | 30 Oct 07 | Bollywood's Big B |
| 60. | 12-3 | 06 Nov 07 | Helvetica |
| 61. | 12-4 | 13 Nov 07 | Louise Bourgeois: Spiderwoman |
| 62. | 12-5 | 20 Nov 07 | How to Get on in the Art World |
| 63. | 12-6 | 19 Feb 08 | The Secret of Life |
| 64. | 12-7 | 26 Feb 08 | Richard Rogers, Inside Out |
| 65. | 12-8 | 04 Mar 08 | Marc Newson: Urban Spaceman |
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| Season 13 |
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| 66. | 13-1 | 27 May 08 | Doris Lessing - The Reluctant Heroine |
| 67. | 13-2 | 03 Jun 08 | Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain |
| 68. | 13-3 | 10 Jun 08 | Annie Leibovitz - Life Through a Lens |
| 69. | 13-4 | 17 Jun 08 | A Trip to Asia: On the Road with the Berlin Philharmonic |
| 70. | 13-5 | 24 Jun 08 | A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami |
| 71. | 13-6 | 01 Jul 08 | Werner Herzog: Beyond Reason |
| 72. | 13-7 | 08 Jul 08 | Love, Loss and Anthony Minghella |
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| Season 14 |
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| 73. | 14-1 | 05 Oct 08 | The Story of the Guitar - In The Beginning |
| 74. | 14-2 | 12 Oct 08 | The Story of the Guitar - Out of the Frying Pan |
| 75. | 14-3 | 14 Oct 08 | Dangerous Liaisons: When Akram met Juliette |
| 76. | 14-4 | 19 Oct 08 | The Story of the Guitar - This Time it's Personal |
| 77. | 14-5 | 21 Oct 08 | A Love Story |
| 78. | 14-6 | 28 Oct 08 | Jay-Z: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered |
| 79. | 14-7 | 11 Nov 08 | Let There Be Light |
| 80. | 14-8 | 18 Nov 08 | How an Orchestra Saved Venezuela's Children |
| 81. | 14-9 | 25 Nov 08 | Richard Serra: Man of Steel |
| 82. | 14-10 | 02 Dec 08 | Heavy Metal in Baghdad |
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| Season 15 |
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| 83. | 15-1 | 05 Apr 09 | Yes We Can! The Lost Art Of Oratory |
| 84. | 15-2 | 23 Jun 09 | Save the Last Dance for Me |
| 85. | 15-3 | 30 Jun 09 | David Hockney: A Bigger Picture |
| 86. | 15-4 | 07 Jul 09 | Rufus Wainwright, Prima Donna |
| 87. | 15-5 | 14 Jul 09 | The Colourful Mr Eggleston |
| 88. | 15-6 | 21 Jul 09 | Art in Troubled Times: A New Deal for Art |
| 89. | 15-8 | 28 Jul 09 | Art in Troubled Times: Part II – The Home Front |
| 90. | 15-10 | 25 Jul 09 | The Smoking Diaries Update |
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| Season 16 |
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| 91. | 16-1 | 17 Nov 09 | The Year of Anish Kapoor |
| 92. | 16-2 | 24 Nov 09 | Dame Shirley Bassey: The Girl from Tiger Bay |
| 93. | 16-3 | 01 Dec 09 | Own Art |
| 94. | 16-4 | 08 Dec 09 | Joan Baez... How Sweet the Sound |
| 95. | 16-5 | 15 Dec 09 | Placido Domingo: The Time of My Life |
| 96. | 16-6 | 22 Dec 09 | Scrabble - A Night on the Tiles |
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| Season 17 |
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| 97. | 17-1 | 05 Apr 10 | Vincent Van Gogh: Painted with Words |
| 98. | 17-2 | 23 May 10 | The Stones in Exile |
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| Season 18 |
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| 99. | 18-1 | 15 Jun 10 | Nigel Kennedy's Polish Adventure |
| 100. | 18-2 | 22 Jun 10 | Art Is Child's Play |
| 101. | 18-3 | 29 Jun 10 | Growing Old Disgracefully |
| 102. | 18-4 | 06 Jul 10 | Tom Jones - What Good Am I? |
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| Season 19 |
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| 103. | 19-1 | 16 Nov 10 | Ai Weiwei - Without Fear or Favour |
| 104. | 19-2 | 23 Nov 10 | Smash His Camera |
| 105. | 19-3 | 30 Nov 10 | The Weird Adventures of Eadweard Muybridge |
| 106. | 19-4 | 07 Dec 10 | Bruce Springsteen: Darkness Revisited |
| 107. | 19-5 | 14 Dec 10 | Ben-Hur |
| 108. | 19-6 | 21 Dec 10 | Ray Davies - Imaginary Man |
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| Season 20 |
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| 109. | 20-1 | 27 Mar 11 | The Trouble with Tolstoy - 1. At War with Himself |
| 110. | 20-2 | 03 Apr 11 | The Trouble with Tolstoy - 2. In Search of Happiness |
| 111. | 20-3 | 28 Jun 11 | The Man Who Forgot How to Read and Other Stories |
| 112. | 20-4 | 05 Jul 11 | The Pharaohs' Museum on Liberation Square |
| 113. | 20-5 | 12 Jul 11 | Lennon: The New York Years |
| 114. | 20-6 | 19 Jul 11 | Harry Nilsson: The Missing Beatle |
| 115. | 20-7 | 26 Jul 11 | Iraq in Venice |
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| Season 21 |
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| 116. | 21-1 | 09 Oct 11 | U2: From the Sky Down |
| 117. | 21-2 | 01 Nov 11 | Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman |
| 118. | 21-3 | 08 Nov 11 | Simon and Garfunkel - The Harmony Game |
| 119. | 21-4 | 15 Nov 11 | Alan Ayckbourn - Greetings from Scarborough |
| 120. | 21-5 | 22 Nov 11 | Vidal Sassoon - A Cut Above |
| 121. | 21-6 | 06 Dec 11 | The Lost Music of Rajasthan |
| 122. | 21-7 | 13 Dec 11 | Books - The Last Chapter? |
| 123. | 21-8 | 19 Dec 11 | The Art Of Stand-Up (Part One) |
| 124. | 21-9 | 20 Dec 11 | The Art Of Stand-Up (Part Two) |
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| Season 22 |
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| 125. | 22-1 | 26 Jun 12 | Theatre of War |
| 126. | 22-2 | 03 Jul 12 | Paul Simon's Graceland - Under African Skies |
| 127. | 22-3 | 10 Jul 12 | Just One Falsetto |
| 128. | 22-4 | 17 Jul 12 | Glasgow: The Grit and the Glamour |
| 129. | 22-5 | 24 Jul 12 | Dancing with Titian |
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| Season 23 |
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| 130. | 23-1 | 19 Sep 12 | The Fatwa - Salman's Story |
| 131. | 23-2 | 16 Oct 12 | Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender |
| 132. | 23-3 | 06 Nov 12 | Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective |
| 133. | 23-4 | 12 Nov 12 | Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story |
| 134. | 23-5 | 12 Nov 12 | Lang Lang |
| 135. | 23-6 | 20 Nov 12 | The Many Lives of William Klein |
| 136. | 23-7 | 27 Nov 12 | How Music Makes Us Feel |
| 137. | 23-8 | 04 Dec 12 | Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me |
| 138. | 23-9 | 18 Dec 12 | A Beauty is Born: Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty |
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| Season 24 |
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| 139. | 24-1 | 28 Mar 13 | Beyoncé: Life is But a Dream |
| 140. | 24-2 | 04 Apr 13 | David Bowie - Cracked Actor |
| 141. | 24-3 | 25 Jun 13 | Vivian Maier - Who Took Nanny's Pictures? |
| 142. | 24-4 | 02 Jul 13 | McCullin |
| 143. | 24-5 | 09 Jul 13 | Rod Stewart: Can't Stop Me Now |
| 144. | 24-6 | 23 Jul 13 | Woody Allen: A Documentary - Part One |
| 145. | 24-7 | 24 Jul 13 | Woody Allen: A Documentary - Part Two |
| 146. | 24-8 | 30 Jul 13 | Zaha Hadid: Who Dares Wins |
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| Season 25 |
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| 147. | 25-1 | 29 Oct 13 | Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin' |
| 148. | 25-2 | 05 Nov 13 | Edmund de Waal: Make Pots or Die |
| 149. | 25-3 | 12 Nov 13 | Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy |
| 150. | 25-4 | 19 Nov 13 | Turning the Art World Inside Out |
| 151. | 25-5 | 26 Nov 13 | Hitler, the Tiger, and Me |
| 152. | 25-6 | 03 Dec 13 | Who's Afraid of Machiavelli? |
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| Season 26 |
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| 153. | 26-1 | 18 May 14 | Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca |
| 154. | 26-2 | 20 May 14 | Philip Roth Unleashed, Part One |
| 155. | 26-3 | 27 May 14 | Philip Roth Unleashed, Part Two |
| 156. | 26-4 | 29 Jun 14 | Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar |
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| Season 27 |
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| 157. | 27-1 | 28 Oct 14 | The Art That Hitler Hated |
| 158. | 27-2 | 04 Nov 14 | The Art That Hitler Hated: The Sins of the Fathers |
| 159. | 27-3 | 11 Nov 14 | Bette Midler: The Divine Miss M |
| 160. | 27-4 | 11 Nov 14 | Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On |
| 161. | 27-5 | 18 Nov 14 | Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future |
| 162. | 27-6 | 25 Nov 14 | The One and Only Mike Leigh |
| 163. | 27-7 | 02 Dec 14 | Colm Toibin: His Mother's Son |
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| Season 28 |
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| 164. | 28-1 | 23 Jun 15 | Frank Gehry: The Architect Says |
| 165. | 28-2 | 30 Jun 15 | Jeff Koons: Diary of a Seducer |
| 166. | 28-3 | 07 Jul 15 | Beware of Mr Baker |
| 167. | 28-4 | 14 Jul 15 | Toni Morrison Remembers |
| 168. | 28-5 | 21 Jul 15 | Richard Flanagan: Life After Death |
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| Season 29 |
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| 169. | 29-1 | 27 Oct 15 | Shylock's Ghost |
| 170. | 29-2 | 03 Nov 15 | Antony Gormley: Being Human |
| 171. | 29-3 | 10 Nov 15 | My Curious Documentary |
| 172. | 29-4 | 17 Nov 15 | The Last Impresario |
| 173. | 29-5 | 24 Nov 15 | The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson |
| 174. | 29-6 | 01 Dec 15 | David Chipperfield: A Place to Be |
| 175. | 29-7 | 08 Dec 15 | Carlos Acosta: Cuba Calls |
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| Season 30 |
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| 176. | 30-1 | 17 Jul 16 | One Night in 2012 - An Imagine Special |
| 177. | 30-2 | 19 Jul 16 | Danger! Cornelia Parker |
| 178. | 30-3 | 26 Jul 16 | Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself |
| 179. | 30-4 | 31 Jul 16 | Sir Roderick Stewart: Can't Stop Me Now |
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| Season 31 |
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| 180. | 31-1 | 29 Oct 16 | The Seven Killings of Marlon James |
| 181. | 31-2 | 22 Nov 16 | The Triumph and Laments of William Kentridge |
| 182. | 31-3 | 29 Nov 16 | Serial Killers - The Women Who Write Crime Fiction |
| 183. | 31-4 | 06 Dec 16 | The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan |
| 184. | 31-5 | 14 Jan 17 | Listen to Me Marlon |
| 185. | 31-6 | 21 Feb 17 | She Spoke the Unspeakable |
| 186. | 31-7 | 28 Feb 17 | Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise |
| 187. | 31-8 | 06 Mar 17 | Alice Neel: Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde |
| 188. | 31-9 | 15 Jul 17 | Chris Ofili: The Caged Bird's Song |
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| Season 32 |
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| 189. | 32-1 | 29 Jul 17 | Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures |
| 190. | 32-2 | 28 Aug 17 | Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned! |
| 191. | 32-3 | 04 Sep 17 | Alma Deutscher: Finding Cinderella |
| 192. | 32-4 | 11 Sep 17 | Cameron Mackintosh: The Musical Man |
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| Season 33 |
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| 193. | 33-1 | 02 Dec 17 | Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room |
| 194. | 33-2 | 17 Feb 18 | Mel Brooks: Unwrapped |
| 195. | 33-3 | 05 Mar 18 | Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons |
| 196. | 33-4 | 19 Mar 18 | Andrew Lloyd Webber: Memories |
| 197. | 33-5 | 26 Mar 18 | Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words |
| 198. | 33-6 | 21 Apr 18 | Habaneros: You Say You Want a Revolution? Part One |
| 199. | 33-7 | 22 Apr 18 | Habaneros: You Say You Want a Revolution? Part Two |
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| Season 34 |
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| 200. | 34-1 | 20 May 18 | Rupert Everett: Born to be Wilde |
| 201. | 34-2 | 27 May 18 | Orhan Pamuk: A Strange Mind |
| 202. | 34-3 | 22 Jul 18 | Rose Wylie: This Rose is Blooming |
| 203. | 34-4 | 29 Jul 18 | Tacita Dean: Looking to See |
| 204. | 34-5 | 09 Oct 18 | Hockney, the Queen and the Royal Peculiar |
| 205. | 34-6 | 16 Oct 18 | George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up? |
| 206. | 34-7 | 23 Oct 18 | Tracey Emin: Where Do You Draw The Line? |
| 207. | 34-8 | 30 Oct 18 | Becoming Cary Grant |
| 208. | 34-9 | 19 Dec 18 | Andrea Levy: Her Island Story |
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| Season 35 |
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| 209. | 35-1 | 21 Jan 19 | James Graham: In the Room Where It Happens |
| 210. | 35-2 | 28 Jan 19 | Jo Brand: No Holds Barred |
| 211. | 35-3 | 04 Feb 19 | Bill Viola: The Road to St Paul's |
| 212. | 35-4 | 07 Jul 19 | Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless |
| 213. | 35-5 | 14 Jul 19 | Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is |
| 214. | 35-6 | 28 Jul 19 | Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device |
| 215. | 35-7 | 30 Sep 19 | EastSide Story |
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| Season 36 |
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| 216. | 36-1 | 02 Jan 20 | Lenny Henry: Young, Gifted and Black |
| 217. | 36-2 | 12 Jul 20 | This House Is Full of Music |
| 218. | 36-3 | 23 Jul 20 | Lemn Sissay: The Memory of Me |
| 219. | 36-4 | 30 Jul 20 | Kate Prince: Every Move She Makes |
| 220. | 36-5 | 06 Aug 20 | My Name Is Kwame |
| 221. | 36-6 | 11 Oct 20 | Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling |
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| Season 37 |
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| 222. | 37-1 | 09 Feb 21 | We'll Be Back? |
| 223. | 37-2 | 28 Mar 21 | Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting |
| 224. | 37-3 | 02 Sep 21 | Bernardine Evaristo: Never Give Up |
| 225. | 37-4 | 09 Sep 21 | Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life |
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| Season 38 |
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| 226. | 38-1 | 07 Feb 22 | Marian Keyes: My (not so) Perfect Life |
| 227. | 38-2 | 14 Feb 22 | Labi Siffre: This Is My Song |
| 228. | 38-3 | 21 Feb 22 | Wayne McGregor: Dancing on the Edge |
| 229. | 38-4 | 25 Apr 22 | Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs |
| 230. | 38-5 | 02 May 22 | Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens |
| 231. | 38-6 | 31 Oct 22 | Malorie Blackman: What If? |
| 232. | 38-7 | 07 Nov 22 | Sonia Boyce: Finding Her Voice |
| 233. | 38-8 | 14 Nov 22 | Douglas Stuart: Love, Hope and Grit |
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| Season 39 |
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| 234. | 39-1 | 20 Mar 23 | Stephen Frears: Director for Hire |
| 235. | 39-2 | 11 Dec 23 | The Factory: Made in Manchester |
| 236. | 39-3 | 18 Dec 23 | Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me |
| 237. | 39-4 | 27 Dec 23 | French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter |
| 238. | 39-5 | 16 Apr 24 | Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now |
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| Season 40 |
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| 239. | 40-1 | 03 Mar 25 | The Academy of Armando |
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