Alan Yentob

Alan Yentob

Alan Yentob was a British television executive and presenter. He held senior roles at the BBC, including head of music and arts, controller of BBC1 and BBC2, and was the corporation's creative director from 2004 until 2015.

On screen

  • The Academy of Armando
  • When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville
  • Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
  • Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
  • imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
  • imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester
  • imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
  • imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
  • Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
  • Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
  • Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life
  • Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting
  • Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling
  • Jo Brand: No Holds Barred
  • Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless
  • Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device
  • Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar
  • Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
  • Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons
  • Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned
  • Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room
  • The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan
  • The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge
  • One Night In 2012
  • A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James
  • Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself
  • Antony Gormley: Being Human
  • Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"
  • David Chipperfield: A Place to Be
  • Absolutely Anything
  • Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
  • BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
  • Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca
  • Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future
  • Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins
  • Turning the Art World Inside Out
  • Mini: A Life Revisited
  • Goodbye Television Centre
  • Hitler, the Tiger and Me
  • Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?
  • Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?
  • Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
  • Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective
  • Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
  • Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me
  • Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
  • Books: The Last Chapter?
  • The Seven Year Hitch
  • Ray Davies: Imaginary Man
  • The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
  • Van Gogh: Painted with Words
  • Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles
  • The Year of Anish Kapoor
  • Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain
  • How to Get on in the Art World
  • Gilbert and George: No Surrender
  • A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin
  • Fantastic Mr. Dahl
  • The World According to Parr
  • Mike Leigh: Making Plays
  • A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas

Behind the camera

  • Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
  • The Man Who Saw Too Much
  • Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
  • Yusuf Islam: A Few Good Songs
  • "The Journey", or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist
  • David Bowie: Cracked Actor

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