Alan Yentob

Known For

NOVA

Narrator

Timeshift

Self - Controller, BBC Two (archive footage)

Ideal

Alan Yentob

W1A

Self

Beautiful People

Self

Operation Good Guys

imagine…

Self - Presenter

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	The Academy of Armando	Self - Presenter
2024	Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now	Self - Interviewer
2024	Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly	Self - Interviewer
2023	imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me	Self
2023	imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester	Self - presenter
2023	imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter	Self - presenter
2022	imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs	Presenter
2022	Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
2022	Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
2021	Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life	Presenter
2021	Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting	Self - Presenter
2020	Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling	Self - Presenter
2019	Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is	Self - Presenter
2019	Jo Brand: No Holds Barred	Self - Presenter
2019	Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless	Self - Presenter
2019	Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device	Self - Presenter
2018	Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar	Self
2018	Mel Brooks: Unwrapped	Self - Presenter
2018	Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons	Self - Presenter
2017	Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned	Self
2017	Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room	Self
2016	The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan	Self
2016	The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge	Self - Presenter
2016	One Night In 2012
2016	The Seven Killings of Marlon James	Self
2016	Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself	Self - Presenter
2015	Antony Gormley: Being Human	Self - Presenter
2015	Shylock's Ghost	Self - Presenter
2015	Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"	Self - Presenter
2015	David Chipperfield: A Place to Be	Self - Presenter
2014	The One and Only Mike Leigh	Self - Presenter
2014	Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar	Self - Presenter
2014	BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M	Self
2014	Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca	Self - Presenter
2013	Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins	Self - Presenter
2013	Turning the Art World Inside Out
2013	Mini: A Life Revisited	Self - Presenter
2013	Goodbye Television Centre	Self - Reporter
2013	Hitler, the Tiger and Me	Self - Presenter
2013	Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?	Self
2013	Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?	Self - Presenter
2012	Mel Brooks Strikes Back!	Self
2012	Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective	Self
2012	Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil	Self - Presenter
2012	Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me	Self
2011	Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman	Self
2011	Books: The Last Chapter?	Self
2010	The Seven Year Hitch	Self
2010	Ray Davies: Imaginary Man	Self - Presenter
2010	The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge	Presenter
2010	Van Gogh: Painted with Words	Self - Narrator
2009	Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles	Self
2009	The Year of Anish Kapoor	Self - Presenter
2008	A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami	Self
2008	Richard Serra: Man of Steel	Presenter
2008	Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain	Presenter
2007	How to Get on in the Art World	Self - Presenter
2006	A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin	Self - Presenter
2006	Sweet Home New Orleans	Self - Presenter
2005	Fantastic Mr. Dahl	Self - Presenter
2004	Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture	Self
2003	The World According to Parr	Self - Prsenter
1982	Mike Leigh: Making Plays	Self - Narrator, Interviewer
	A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas	Self

Year	TV Show	Role
2022	In Conversation with Alan Yentob	Self
2014	W1A	Self
2009	Live from Studio Five	Self
2008	The Story Of The Guitar
2008	Beautiful People	Self
2005	Ideal	Alan Yentob
2003	imagine…	Self - Presenter
2002	Timeshift	Self - Controller, BBC Two (archive footage)
1997	Operation Good Guys
1988	Behind The Screen
1986	Open Air
1974	NOVA	Narrator