Controller of BBC2 (1987–1993) Controller of BBC1 (1993–1996)
Spouse
Philippa Walker
Children
2
Relatives
Mother, Flora Esther Khazam. Father, Isaac Reuben Yentob.[2]
Alan Yentob, CBE (born 11 March 1947) is a retired British television executive and presenter. He has held senior roles at the BBC including head of music and arts, controller of BBC1 and controller of BBC2. He stepped down as the BBC's creative director in December 2015,[3] and was chairman of the board of trustees of the charity Kids Company from 2003 until its collapse in 2015.
^The Independent[permanent dead link] Independent:The Alan Yentob Experience
AlanYentob, CBE (born 11 March 1947) is a retired British television executive and presenter. He has held senior roles at the BBC including head of music...
television documentary film about the musician David Bowie, made by AlanYentob for the BBC's Omnibus strand. It was first shown on BBC1 on 26 January...
included: a requirement that Batmangelidjh step down as chief executive and AlanYentob step down as chair of the trustees; that the charity immediately downsize;...
music business. Regarding his conversion, in his 2006 interview with AlanYentob, he stated, "To some people, it may have seemed like an enormous jump...
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads series, receiving a second BAFTA TV nomination. In 1981, Smith starred in the Merchant Ivory film Quartet alongside Alan...
second as regular host), a highlights show was broadcast, presented by AlanYentob as a parody of his own arts series Imagine. The highlights programme...
Verity Lambert / David Puttnam / Sydney Samuelson / Thelma Schoonmaker / AlanYentob (1997) Bernardo Bertolucci / Jeremy Thomas (1998) John Paul Getty Jr...
Labi Siffre: This Is My Song, as part of the Imagine series, in which AlanYentob presented a film exploring Siffre's life and work. Siffre met his partner...
Up for Grabs in the Imagine... series, where she was interviewed by AlanYentob. In November 2023, Margolyes appeared the voice of The Meep in "The Star...
1977–1981: Bill Cotton 1981–1984: Alan Hart 1984–1987: Michael Grade 1987–1993: Jonathan Powell 1993–1996: AlanYentob 1996–1997: Michael Jackson 1997–2000:...
five hours to learn". In his 2017 BBC Documentary about Alma Deutscher, AlanYentob described this intense world of imagination, in which Deutscher had created...
High (1968) alongside Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle, Dennis Hopper, Ed Begley, Alan Hale Jr., Ben Johnson, Bruce Dern, and James MacArthur, playing a man who...
actresses Shobna Gulati and Lucy Benjamin and BBC creative director AlanYentob). The four also received an apology. Trinity Mirror also announced that...
Keyes appeared on BBC's Imagine, aired in February 2022, explaining to AlanYentob how she was distracted from her resolved end-of-life attempt by an episode...
on-screen narrator in Jess Franco's Eugenie (1970) as a favour to producer Harry Alan Towers, unaware that it was softcore pornography, as the sex scenes were...
that Dench would be joining the cast of Allelujah, a film adaptation of Alan Bennett's play of the same name directed by Richard Eyre, which will also...
On 28 January 2019, the BBC television series Imagine, presented by AlanYentob, documented Jo's life and career, with contributions from many of her...
Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, Crispin Glover, and Harry Potter co-star Alan Rickman. Her role was an amalgamation of the Queen of Hearts and the Red...
Together Again Nominated 2013 Mel Brooks Strikes Back: With Mel Brooks and AlanYentob Nominated 2015 Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen Nominated Outstanding Writing...
England: Macmillan Publishers Ltd. p. 29. "Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Alan Arkin Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions". YouTube. Wired. 6 April...
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