★★★☆☆

The Trouble With Kanye. Well, where do you start? White Lives Matter t-shirts; slavery was ‘a choice’; the virulent antisemitism; hanging with alt-right monsters. Weird to think now that the most appalling thing he had done before he became Ye, was being a total cad to Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards. How could he have gone from accusing George W Bush of not caring about Black people after Hurricane Katrina to donning a MAGA hat (yet they say Kanye has such great fashion sense . . . ) and hugging Trump in the White House? 

Award-winning documentary-maker Mobeen Azhar is determined to get some answers to the Kanye conundrum. The catch-all alibi of his bipolar disorder is given short shrift by one interviewee who has her own history of manic episodes, while everyone from saddened former friends to the homeless man who West has picked as campaign manager for his 2024 presidential run are equally as bemused. Azhar is a likeable frontman for this largely thankless gig as he eventually resorts to writing actual letters to be passed on to the object of his hot pursuit.

Putting himself front and centre as he confronts a variety of extremists ranging from white supremacist Nick Fuentes to the Black Hebrew Israelite Movement, he comes across as a less bumbling Nick Broomfield. Though, amusingly, he’s not averse to leaving in small-talk chit chat and a couple of compliments he’s paid for his own dress sense.

Available now on BBC iPlayer.