In a revealing feature-length 'Imagine' documentary (around 100 minutes long), Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about a unique body of work and a lifelong struggle to make films on his own terms. 

On day one of a Mike Leigh film, there is no script, no story and the actors do not know if they will even be in the final film. It is a process that has yielded some of cinema's most celebrated performances, and Leigh's new film Mr Turner is already winning critical acclaim. 

Actors including Jim Broadbent, Eddie Marsan, Sally Hawkins, Lesley Manville and James Corden give fascinating insights into the director and his distinctive method of working. 
Interviewees include: 
Marion Bailey 
Jim Broadbent 
Philip Davis (as Phil Davis) 
Sally Hawkins 
Lesley Manville 
Eddie Marsan 
Abi Morgan 
Dick Pope 
Will Self 
Ruth Sheen 
Timothy Spall 
Alison Steadman (from 1982 archive footage)