Alan Yentob

Overview

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Acting
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Birthday
Mar 11, 1947 (78 years old)

Alan Yentob

Known For

Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
1h 2m
Movie 2024

Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly

Salman Rushdie speaks to Alan Yentob about the devastating knife attack he was subjected to in 2022, losing his right eye and almost his ability to write.

Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
1h 28m
Movie 2024

Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now

Featuring exclusive access to their recent tour and their new album, this documentary reveals the fascinating world of Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe.

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
1h 29m
Movie 2023

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter

imagine... profiles the UK’s most successful double act of the last 40 years, French & Saunders, exploring a brand of comedy based on satire, silliness and, above all, friendship.

imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
1h 15m
Movie 2023

imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me

imagine... follows celebrated British TV writer Russell T Davies as he prepares to return as the showrunner of Doctor Who – with two Doctors and bigger ambitions.

imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester
1h 10m
Movie 2023

imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester

imagine... tells the story of Aviva Studios, Manchester’s colossal new cultural venue, and goes behind the scenes at the world premiere of its opening production, Free Your Mind.

In Conversation with Alan Yentob
TV Show 2022

In Conversation with Alan Yentob

From the BFI Imax in London, Alan Yentob talks to Bob Geldof and Stephen Fry about their achievements and the challenges they have faced in their extraordinary lives.

Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
1h 11m
Movie 2022

Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens

Twenty-something virtuoso multi-instrumentalist, singer and arranger Jacob Collier has managed to outdo The Beatles by winning Grammy Awards for each of his first four albums. Alan Yentob meets Jacob and musicians he has collaborated with, including Stormzy, Chris Martin and film composer Hans Zimmer. He also talks to music legends Quincy Jones and Herbie Hancock, who believe Jacob Collier is one of the most talented musicians on the planet today.

imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
1h 6m
Movie 2022

imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs

Miriam Margolyes is one of Britain’s best loved and most provocative actresses. Across her eclectic career, she has played scene-stealing turns in Blackadder, voiced some of our most well-known adverts and found fame internationally as Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films.

Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
1h 6m
Movie 2022

Labi Siffre: This Is My Song

Alan Yentob presents a film exploring the life and work of the Ivor Novello Award-winning black British singer-songwriter Labi Siffre. An enigmatic and reclusive talent, Siffre wrote the song It Must Be Love, later covered by Madness, alongside songs of defiance like the classic anti-apartheid anthem (Something Inside) So Strong. In a highly unusual and uncompromising creative life, Siffre has produced nine albums to date – a somewhat overlooked back catalogue whose range and quality is nothing short of extraordinary. His hugely impressive body of work has in recent years also proved rich territory for an array of hip-hop heavyweights with Dr Dre and Eminem, Jay Z and Kanye West all discovering and sampling his music, bringing it to an entirely new generation of listeners around the world.

Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting
1h 16m
Movie 2021

Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting

A revealing profile of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, as he publishes his much-anticipated new book, Klara and the Sun.

Acting

2024
Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
2024
Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
2023
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
2023
imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester
2022
In Conversation with Alan Yentob
2022
Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
2022
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
2022
Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
2021
Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting
2020
Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling
2019
Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is
2019
Jo Brand: No Holds Barred
2018
Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar
2018
Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons
2018
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
2017
Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room
2017
Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned
2016
The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan
2016
The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge
2016
The Seven Killings of Marlon James
2016
Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself
2016
One Night In 2012
2015
David Chipperfield: A Place to Be
2015
Antony Gormley: Being Human
2015
Shylock's Ghost
2015
Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"
2014
The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
2014
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
2013
Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?
2013
Hitler, the Tiger and Me
2013
Turning the Art World Inside Out
2013
Mini: A Life Revisited
2013
Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins
2013
Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?
2013
Goodbye Television Centre
2012
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
2012
Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me
2012
Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective
2012
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
2011
Books: The Last Chapter?
2011
Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
2008
The Story Of The Guitar
2003
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