1947-03-11 (78 years old)
London, England, UK
Tom Stoppard is perhaps the world’s leading, funniest and cleverest playwright. Ever since he hit th...
David Hockney undertakes a commission to design and install a stained-glass window in Westminster Ab...
One of the most provocative and elusive figures in contemporary art finds himself the subject of Mau...
Alan Yentob joins South African artist William Kentridge as he prepares an epic frieze along the ban...
Alan Yentob profiles the most successful female architect there has ever been, the late Zaha Hadid, ...
Alan Yentob meets sculptor Antony Gormley, creator of the iconic Angel of the North, and uncovers th...
For decades, Margaret Atwood has been universally acclaimed as Canada's greatest living writer. Fear...
Mel Brooks appears on stage with Alan Yentob, the creative director for the BBC, at the Geffen Theat...
Miriam Margolyes is one of Britain’s best loved and most provocative actresses. Across her eclectic ...
Twenty-something virtuoso multi-instrumentalist, singer and arranger Jacob Collier has managed to ou...
Alan Yentob presents a film exploring the life and work of the Ivor Novello Award-winning black Brit...
Dream city, Sin City, a mirage in the desert, Las Vegas is a film set in its own right, a piece of p...
imagine... follows celebrated British TV writer Russell T Davies as he prepares to return as the sho...
imagine... tells the story of Aviva Studios, Manchester’s colossal new cultural venue, and goes behi...
imagine... profiles the UK’s most successful double act of the last 40 years, French & Saunders, exp...
Scrabble is experiencing a renaissance. The younger generation have rediscovered the game online - t...
Artist Grayson Perry has been working behind the scenes at the British Museum to stage his most ambi...
Will the rise of electronic books mark the final chapter in the love story between traditional books...
Crime writer Ian Rankin invites BBC to follow him as he writes his next novel, and as he ponders wha...
Renowned American playwright Arthur Miller discusses his life and work with Alan Yentob....
