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    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...
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  • Retrieved 22 August 2015. Sweney, Mark (5 August 2015). "BBC denies Alan Yentob influenced Newsnight's Kids Company report". The Guardian. Retrieved...
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  • television documentary film about the musician David Bowie, made by Alan Yentob for the BBC's Omnibus strand. It was first shown on BBC1 on 26 January...
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  • persuaded by Alan Yentob, the then Controller of BBC Two, to join the staff of the BBC. Jackson came to be seen as something of a protégé of Yentob's during...
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  • Martin Scorsese, Julien Temple, Anthony Wall, Leslie Woodhead, and Alan Yentob. The arts strand Arena was initially created in 1975 by the BBC Head...
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  • overhaul, but it was eventually cancelled by the new controller of BBC1, Alan Yentob. Eldorado was conceived originally from an idea by James Todesco, John...
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  • first broadcast on BBC One in 2003, hosted and executive produced by Alan Yentob. Most series consist of 4 to 7 episodes, each on a different topic. Episodes...
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  • Islam: The Artist Formerly Known as Cat Stevens", BBC. Interview with Alan Yentob, May 2006. Islam, Yusuf (2008). "Yusuf Islam Website, 1966". Official...
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  • included: a requirement that Batmangelidjh step down as chief executive and Alan Yentob step down as chair of the trustees; that the charity immediately downsize;...
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    music business. Regarding his conversion, in his 2006 interview with Alan Yentob, he stated, "To some people, it may have seemed like an enormous jump...
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  • cast were created by Morton as new characters. Cameo/guest appearances Alan Yentob (2014, 2015; 2 episodes) Carol Vorderman (2014; 2 episodes) Salman Rushdie...
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  • decides the only way to enhance her career prospects is to improve her social status. Guest stars: Linda Lusardi (herself) and Alan Yentob (himself)...
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    second as regular host), a highlights show was broadcast, presented by Alan Yentob as a parody of his own arts series Imagine. The highlights programme...
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    Alan Bennett's Talking Heads series, receiving a second BAFTA TV nomination. In 1981, Smith starred in the Merchant Ivory film Quartet alongside Alan...
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  • Theroux, Bill Buford, and Martin Amis, as well as public figures such as Alan Yentob. It also includes the story of the break-up of his relationship with...
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    1977–1981: Bill Cotton 1981–1984: Alan Hart 1984–1987: Michael Grade 1987–1993: Jonathan Powell 1993–1996: Alan Yentob 1996–1997: Michael Jackson 1997–2000:...
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    Verity Lambert / David Puttnam / Sydney Samuelson / Thelma Schoonmaker / Alan Yentob (1997) Bernardo Bertolucci / Jeremy Thomas (1998) John Paul Getty Jr...
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    Up for Grabs in the Imagine... series, where she was interviewed by Alan Yentob. In November 2023, Margolyes appeared the voice of The Meep in "The Star...
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  • actresses Shobna Gulati and Lucy Benjamin and BBC creative director Alan Yentob). The four also received an apology. Trinity Mirror also announced that...
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    five hours to learn". In his 2017 BBC Documentary about Alma Deutscher, Alan Yentob described this intense world of imagination, in which Deutscher had created...
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    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...
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    Labi Siffre: This Is My Song, as part of the Imagine series, in which Alan Yentob presented a film exploring Siffre's life and work. Siffre met his partner...
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    Keyes appeared on BBC's Imagine, aired in February 2022, explaining to Alan Yentob how she was distracted from her resolved end-of-life attempt by an episode...
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    On 28 January 2019, the BBC television series Imagine, presented by Alan Yentob, documented Jo's life and career, with contributions from many of her...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • the shape of the word." It started as a joke until they learned that Alan Yentob, then head of BBC2, disliked the title which convinced the pair to stick...
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    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...
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    Together Again Nominated 2013 Mel Brooks Strikes Back: With Mel Brooks and Alan Yentob Nominated 2015 Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen Nominated Outstanding Writing...
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    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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