Extraordinary Portraits

Extraordinary Portraits

Documentary 2022

Available on CBC Gem

Follow musician and passionate art collector Tinie Tempah as he invites ordinary people with extraordinary stories to sit for some of the world's most distinctive and ground-breaking portrait artists.

Documentary 2022

G

Starring Bill Bailey, Tinie Tempah

EPISODE 1

Roxana Halls and Georgia and Melissa Laurie

Artist Roxana Halls has been given the task of depicting two sitters as she explores the unbreakable bond between Georgia and Melissa; twins who survived a near-fatal crocodile attack.

28 min · Nov 7, 2022 G
EPISODE 2

Christy Lee Rogers and Cee Cee

Celebrated international photographer Christy Lee Rogers helps Cee Cee, a model with albinism, on her journey from self-proclaimed "ugly duckling" to elegant swan.

29 min · Nov 7, 2022 G
EPISODE 3

Dale Grimshaw and Patrick Hutchinson

Dale Grimshaw, famed for his street murals, builds a bond with Patrick, who was photographed carrying an injured English Defense League member to safety during a 2020 Black Lives Matter demonstration.

29 min · Nov 7, 2022 G
EPISODE 4

Kelvin Okafor and Catrin Pugh

This match sees Kelvin Okafor, a hyperreal artist who specializes in pencil portraits, draw Catrin Pugh, a survivor of a bus crash that left her with burns across 96% of her body.

29 min · Nov 7, 2022 G
EPISODE 5

Thomas Croft and Mark Ormrod

Thomas Croft, the artist behind Portraits for NHS Heroes, meets Mark, a former Royal Marine who survived an explosion during a foot patrol in Afghanistan in 2007.

29 min · Nov 7, 2022 G
EPISODE 6

Artist Caroline Pool and Sitter Alec Burrough

Portrait artist Caroline Pool paints Alec Burrough, an 88-year-old dairy farmer from Devon who refuses to slow down.

29 min · Nov 7, 2022 G

Bill Bailey

Host
Tinie Tempah

Narrator
David Metcalf

Director
Nav Raman

Producer
Ali Quirk

Producer

About

Extraordinary Portraits

DOCUMENTARY

Follow musician and passionate art collector Tinie Tempah as he invites ordinary people with extraordinary stories to sit for some of the world's most distinctive and ground-breaking portrait artists.

Information

Studio: bbc_one
Released: 2022
Rated: G

Languages

Audio: * (AAC)
Subtitles: English (Canada) (CC, SDH)

Accessibility

: Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.