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Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

Episode number: 1

Overview: An unflinching and uncompromising portrait of one of the most controversial photographers.

Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned!

Episode number: 2

Overview: Alan Yentob meets acclaimed writer Margaret Atwood in Toronto and discovers how a childhood spent between the Canadian wilderness and the city helped shape her.

Alma Deutscher: Finding Cinderella

Episode number: 3

Overview: Alan Yentob meets musical prodigy Alma Deutscher. Aged 11, she is staging her first full-length opera, Cinderella. Composer, pianist, violinist... Alma learned to read music before she could read words. She began playing the piano aged two and at four years old she was composing her own music.

Cameron Mackintosh: The Musical Man

Episode number: 4

Overview: Sir Cameron Mackintosh was once a theatre stagehand on Drury Lane and is now a musical theatre impresario, with a career spanning 50 years and a catalogue of musical theatre hits to his name - including Cats, Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera and Miss Saigon - and he is now about to launch the US hit musical Hamilton in London.