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Alan Yentob

  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Obituary
    Alan Yentob showed what arts programming could be

    The BBC executive, who has died at 78, worked on path-breaking series including ‘Arena’, ‘Omnibus’ and ‘Imagine’

    Alan Yentob
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    UK honours system
    Post Office campaigner Alan Bates knighted in King’s birthday honours

    Former PM Gordon Brown, LSE chief Julia Hoggett and HSBC chair Mark Tucker all receive recognition

    Post Office scandal campaigner Alan Bates
  • Friday, 25 May, 2018
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Imagine . . . Orhan Pamuk, BBC1 — ‘sophisticated, slippery intellect’

    The Nobel Prize-winner guides Alan Yentob through the centuries-old districts of Istanbul

    Programme Name: imagine...Orhan Pamuk: A Strange Mind - TX: 27/05/2018 - Episode: n/a (No. n/a) - Picture Shows: in the suburbs of Istanbul Orhan Pamuk, Alan Yentob - (C) Storyvault Films - Photographer: Production
  • Monday, 31 July, 2017
    UK economy
    Kids Company trustees face bans from running UK companies

    Insolvency Service to request eight people are disqualified from boards

    LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 09: Alan Yentob and Camila Batmanghelidjh sighting at the BBC on January 9, 2015 in London, England. (Photo by Simon James/GC Images)
  • Tuesday, 4 July, 2017
    Life & Arts
    Songs in the key of real life

    A new verbatim theatre show about the Kids Company charity raises questions about the form

    Sandra Marvin (Camila Batmanghelidjh) and Omar Ebrahim (Alan Yentob) in 'Committee' at the Donmar Warehouse
  • Friday, 28 October, 2016
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Imagine . . . The Seven Killings of Marlon James, BBC2

    Documentary refers to a prize novel based on the attempted political murder of Bob Marley in 1976

  • Friday, 12 February, 2016
    Lunch with the FT
    Lunch with the FT: Alan Yentob

    The TV executive and presenter on the collapse of Kids Company, resigning his role at the BBC and how Orson Welles used to steal his dinner

    Alan Yentob illustration by James Ferguson
  • Monday, 1 February, 2016
    Charity
    Kids Company trustees ‘negligent’ and ‘ignored repeated warnings’

    MPs outline ‘extraordinary catalogue of failures’ leading to the charity’s collapse

    File photo dated 15/10/15 of Alan Yentob, as he is to step down as BBC Creative Director saying that speculation about his role with failed charity Kids Company "and the media coverage revolving around my role is proving a serious distraction". PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday December 3, 2015. See PA story MEDIA Yentob. Photo credit should read: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
  • Thursday, 28 January, 2016
    UK politics
    Met Police drops Kids Company abuse probe

    Charity’s finances still under investigation but claims of criminal activity ‘vague in detail’

    Staff Of Recently Closed Charity Kids Company March On Downing Street...LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 07: Kids Company founder Camila Batmanghelidjh is surrounded by supporters and camera crews as she attempts to join other staff members in a rally opposite Downing Street on August 7, 2015 in London, England. Kids Company, a charity for vulnerable youngsters headed by chief executive Camila Batmanghelidjh, closed its services on Wednesday evening amid financial concerns and accusations of mishandling sexual assault allegations. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
  • Thursday, 3 December, 2015
    UK economy
    Loyal BBC servant who commissioned groundbreaking TV

    Reality more complex than a caricature of broadcaster privilege

    File photo dated 15/10/15 of Alan Yentob, as he is to step down as BBC Creative Director saying that speculation about his role with failed charity Kids Company "and the media coverage revolving around my role is proving a serious distraction". PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday December 3, 2015. See PA story MEDIA Yentob. Photo credit should read: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
  • Thursday, 3 December, 2015
    UK politics
    Alan Yentob quits BBC role over Kids Co debacle

    Media coverage of failed charity was ‘proving a serious distraction’ to the broadcaster

    LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 15: Former Kids Company chairman of trustees Alan Yentob arrives to attend a select committee hearing at Portcullis House on October 15, 2015 in London, England. Mr Yentob will face questions from MPs relating to alleged mismanagement of the now defunct Kids Company charity. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)
  • Sunday, 8 November, 2015
    Fund management
    Embarrassment awaits when top talent becomes the problem

    Handling star performers can prove to be a minefield for managers

    British television presenter Jeremy Clarkson (centre) leaves his home on a bicycle in west London on March 26, 2015
  • Thursday, 15 October, 2015
    UK politics
    Kids Company leaders clash with MPs over charity’s fall

    Camila Batmanghelidjh and Alan Yentob deny group was badly run in bruising encounter

    Kids Company charity founder Camila Batmanghelidjh arrives for a Select Committee hearing at Portcullis House in central London, on October 15, 2015. Batmanghelidjh and Alan Yentob its chairman of trustees are set to face a Commons Public Administration Committee on how the charity was run after it was closed due to lack of funding. AFP PHOTO / BEN STANSALLBEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images
  • Wednesday, 18 March, 2015
    UK economy
    Mirror papers face wrath of celebrities over hacking

    Phone-hacking case could set precedent for payouts

    Copies of the Daily Mirror newspaper move along the production line
  • Tuesday, 3 March, 2015
    Companies By Region
    Phone hacking was ‘rife’ at the Daily and Sunday Mirror, court told

    Voicemail intercepted on ‘mass industrial scale’

    Copies of the Daily Mirror newspaper move along the production line
  • Wednesday, 11 June, 2014
    Sport
    Hacking claims made against Mirror Group
  • Thursday, 22 November, 2012
    ReviewUK politics
    Lord Hall faces immense BBC challenges
    New BBC directoe general Tony Hall
  • Wednesday, 2 May, 2012
    ReviewLife & Arts
    From dark days to brighter future

    After years of debt and drastic cuts, London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts is fighting back with a mix of the crowd-pleasing and the cerebral

  • Friday, 22 July, 2011
    FT Magazine
    Hello again! Who said the party’s over?

    This isn’t mere networking, we’ve become real friends

  • Wednesday, 30 March, 2011
    Institute paints hopeful picture after past woes
  • Wednesday, 13 October, 2010
    UK economy
    BBC announces more top-level job cuts
  • Thursday, 12 November, 2009
    UK companies
    BBC reveals top executive salaries and expense details
  • Saturday, 25 July, 2009
    John LloydLife & Arts
    Fine fare for the common man
  • Saturday, 16 May, 2009
    John LloydLife & Arts
    Art for everyone, not just insiders
  • Wednesday, 13 August, 2008
    ObituaryUK economy
    TV impresario with the golden touch
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