Credits
- 2024 · Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly as Self - Interviewer
- 2024 · Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now as Interviewer
- 2023 · imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter as Self - presenter
- 2023 · imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me as Self
- 2022 · In Conversation with Alan Yentob as Self
- 2022 · Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens as
- 2022 · Labi Siffre: This Is My Song as
- 2021 · Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting as Himself (Presenter)
- 2019 · Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device as Himself - Presenter
- 2019 · Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless as Himself - Presenter
- 2018 · Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar as Self
- 2018 · Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons as Himself - Presenter
- 2018 · Mel Brooks: Unwrapped as Self - Presenter
- 2017 · Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned as Self
- 2014 · The One and Only Mike Leigh as Himself - Presenter
- 2014 · Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar as Self / Presenter
- 2014 · W1A as Self
- 2013 · Who's Afraid of Machiavelli? as Self - Presenter
- 2013 · Turning the Art World Inside Out as
- 2013 · Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins as Himself - Presenter
- 2012 · Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil as Self - Presenter
- 2010 · The Seven Year Hitch as Self
- 2010 · Van Gogh: Painted with Words as Self - Narrator
- 2009 · Live from Studio Five as Self
- 2008 · The Story Of The Guitar as
- 2008 · Beautiful People as Self
- 2008 · Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain as Presenter
- 2007 · A Bucket O' French and Saunders as
- 2005 · Fantastic Mr. Dahl as Himself - Presenter
- 2005 · Ideal as Himself
- 2003 · imagine… as Self - Presenter
- 2002 · Timeshift as Self - Controller, BBC Two (archive footage)
- 1997 · Operation Good Guys as
- 1988 · Behind The Screen as
- 1986 · Open Air as
- 1982 · Mike Leigh: Making Plays as Narrator/Interviewer
- 1974 · NOVA as Narrator
- Future · A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas as Self
- 2023 · imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester as Self - presenter
- 2022 · imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs as Presenter
- 2021 · Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life as Presenter
- 2020 · Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling as Himself - Presenter
- 2019 · Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is as Himself - Presenter
- 2019 · Jo Brand: No Holds Barred as Himself - Presenter
- 2017 · Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room as himself
- 2016 · The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan as Self
- 2016 · The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge as Himself - Presenter
- 2016 · The Seven Killings of Marlon James as Himself
- 2016 · Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself as Self - Presenter
- 2016 · One Night In 2012 as
- 2015 · David Chipperfield: A Place to Be as Himself - Presenter
- 2015 · Antony Gormley: Being Human as Presenter
- 2015 · Shylock's Ghost as Himself - Presenter
- 2015 · Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?" as Himself - Presenter
- 2014 · BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M as Self
- 2014 · Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca as Self - Presenter
- 2013 · Hitler, the Tiger and Me as Himself - Presenter
- 2013 · Mini: A Life Revisited as Self - Presenter
- 2013 · Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures? as Himself
- 2013 · Goodbye Television Centre as Self - Reporter
- 2012 · Mel Brooks Strikes Back! as Self
- 2012 · Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective as Self
- 2011 · Books: The Last Chapter? as Self
- 2011 · Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman as Self
- 2010 · Ray Davies: Imaginary Man as Himself - Presenter
- 2010 · The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge as
- 2009 · Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles as Self
- 2009 · The Year of Anish Kapoor as Himself - Presenter
- 2008 · Richard Serra: Man of Steel as Presenter
- 2008 · A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami as Himself
- 2007 · How to Get on in the Art World as Self - Presenter
- 2006 · A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin as Himself - Presenter
- 2006 · Sweet Home New Orleans as Himself - Presenter
- 2004 · Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture as Self
- 2003 · The World According to Parr as Self - Prsenter