Alan Yentob

NOVA

PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way,...

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game show with a pop and rock music theme. The show is infamous for...

Remembers…

What are the secrets of our favourite TV shows? Famous names from both sides of the camera reflect on making so...

Ideal

Sitcom about a small-time dope dealer and his strange collection of acquaintances.

Timeshift

Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelli...

imagine…

The biggest names from the world of art, film, music, literature and dance. Alan Yentob gets close up with thos...

W1A

The follow-up to 'Twenty Twelve' as Ian Fletcher takes up the position of 'Head of Values' at the BBC. His task...

Open Air

Open Air was BBC1's flagship programme for their new daytime service which began on 27 October 1986. It discuss...

Mandy

Mandy is a woman with dreams. Big dreams. Most of all she dreams of breeding Doberman Pinchers. But there are h...

Beautiful People

Beautiful People is a British comedy drama television series based on the memoirs of Barneys creative director...

Absolutely Anything

Eccentric aliens give a man the power to do anything he wants to determine if Earth is worth saving.

Operation Good Guys

Operation Good Guys is a British mockumentary, a fly-on-the-wall documentary series about an elite police unit'...

Behind The Screen

Live from Studio Five

Live from Studio Five was an early-evening British magazine programme which was produced by Sky News for Channe...

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...

The One and Only Mike Leigh

In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among ma...

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

imagine... profiles the UK’s most successful double act of the last 40 years, French & Saunders, exploring a br...

Mike Leigh: Making Plays

Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.

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 c...

Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar

Alan Yentob meets the five surviving members of Monty Python - John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry G...

Van Gogh: Painted with Words

A drama-documentary presented by Alan Yentob, with Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role. Every word spoken by...

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

At the age of 91, Mel Brooks is unstoppable, with his musical "Young Frankenstein" opening to great critical ac...

Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?

Famous for lines like 'It is better to be feared than loved', Machiavelli's notorious book, The Prince, has bee...

Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now

Featuring exclusive access to their recent tour and their new album, this documentary reveals the fascinating w...

The Story Of The Guitar

How did the guitar become the world’s favorite instrument? Alan Yentob begins this personal journey, fascinated...

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...

One Night In 2012

Co-produced by Rogan Productions and BBC Studios. London. The Summer of 2012. As rehearsals take place in a rai...

Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens

Twenty-something virtuoso multi-instrumentalist, singer and arranger Jacob Collier has managed to outdo The Bea...

The Academy of Armando

Alan Yentob profiles the stellar career of one of the great satirists of our age, Armando Iannucci, whose impre...

The Seven Year Hitch

This documentary looks at executive producer Philip Segal’s seven-year quest to return Doctor Who to the screen...

Shylock's Ghost

As Man Booker Prize-winning writer Howard Jacobson retells The Merchant of Venice, 400 years after Shakespeare’...

Mini: A Life Revisited

1975 documentary about 11-year-old serial arsonist Michael 'Mini' Cooper, followed by Cooper and the film's dir...

Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins

Alan Yentob profiles the most successful female architect there has ever been, the late Zaha Hadid, who designe...

Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar

David Hockney undertakes a commission to design and install a stained-glass window in Westminster Abbey to comm...

Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned

For decades, Margaret Atwood has been universally acclaimed as Canada's greatest living writer. Fearlessly outs...

Mel Brooks Strikes Back!

Mel Brooks appears on stage with Alan Yentob, the creative director for the BBC, at the Geffen Theatre in Calif...