#OnThisDay 11 March 1993
WILL YOU STILL WANT ME TOMORROW?
You are #AlanYentob. The future of #Eldorado is in your hands. With improving ratings and kinder reviews, the joke soap suddenly isn't so funny. Should you pull the plug? The Independent canvasses opinion.

#OnThisDay 27 February 1993
SUN MAY SET ON ELDORADO
#AlanYentob took over as Controller of BBC1 yesterday - and immediately sounded a possible death knell for #Eldorado. "It doesn't seem to have done the business . . ."

#OnThisDay 9 July 1993
ADIOS TO ALL THAT
Tonight the sun sets on the ill-fated #Eldorado. The Guardian says farewell to the soap that was neither good nor bad enough, and programme-makers offer BBC1 controller #AlanYentob suggestions on how to fll the troublesome 7pm slot . . .

Letter: Alan Yentob obituary Janet Whitaker writes

#alanyentob : obituary. #FYI #RIP

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

Alan Yentob who I photographed at the BBC in 2014 has passed away.. He was 78 years old.. Unboughtedly one of TV’s creative giant and one of Britain’s most influential TV executives and presenters. @ayentob1 #yentob #alanyentob #bbc #monoportrait #davidsandisonYentob

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#alanyentob

Alan and the Arts Yentob was a towering figure at the BBC for decades.

My sort-of encounters with #AlanYentob ... (RIP 🕊 ) open.substack.com/pub/theanglo... @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @matthewkilburn.bsky.social

R.I.P., Alan #Yentob [°Mar. 11, 1947 – May 24, 2025]🕯️😔🌹

#BBC #BBCOne #BBCTwo #KeepingKidsCompany #DavidBaddiel #YehudimBavlim #SirSalmanRushdie #NadjiKhazam #FloraEstherKhazam #AlanYentob

I spent a long time trying to persuade him to let me at his Heinrich Böll film, but he never would, & I don't know if it ever got finished? #alanyentob

Oh I'm sorry to hear about Alan Yentob, he was a lovely guy, even though a nightmare in the cutting room, all those years ago. But I was probably a nightmare too, young & opinionated. #alanyentob

Alan Yentob, former BBC executive and TV presenter, dies aged 78 Wife pays tribute to ‘profoundly moral man’ who was ‘creative in every cell of his body’

gosh! no! #AlanYentob was one of the best media-moguls the BBC & UK ever had... intelligent, inquisitive, investigative, even-handed & gentle... his leadership & latterly interviews & documentaries are among the most informative, interesting & enlightening 😭
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

Alan Yentob, former BBC executive and TV presenter, dies aged 78 Wife pays tribute to ‘profoundly moral man’ who was ‘creative in every cell of his body’

The great #AlanYentob made it seem as if he was the establishment but he was truly an outsider and his success special. He was as much an artist as any of his subjects and I will miss his mesmerising take on art www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

Alan Yentob: BBC arts broadcaster dies aged 78 He interviewed a raft of important cultural and creative figures over a lengthy career at the BBC.

A moment of considerable sadness, for a true representative of the Reithian tradition. #AlanYentob
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Alan Yentob, former BBC executive and TV presenter, dies aged 78 Wife pays tribute to ‘profoundly moral man’ who was ‘creative in every cell of his body’

RIP #AlanYentob the bbc would not have been the amazing creative outlet it was in the 90’s and 00’s without your passion and commissioning www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

How did he die? 78 is young!RIP #alanYentob

On no, #alanyentob why do the greats have to go. A wonderful #genius.

RIP Alan Yentob,a real champion of the arts on the BBC.. he must have hated how the BBC now undervalues & has decimated its coverage & stripped BBC4 of its purpose #alanYentob

Alan Yentob, former BBC executive and TV presenter, dies aged 78 Wife pays tribute to ‘profoundly moral man’ who was ‘creative in every cell of his body’

We'll miss his presence
#AlanYentob #RIP

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

RIP Alan Yentob. I'm going to call him a Mancunian cause that's where he grew up (Didsbury to be precise) and because Mancunians are nice people. ♥️
#AlanYentob #Manchester #Didsbury

Alan Yentob, one of British culture’s ‘defining figures’, dies aged 78 BBC director-general Tim Davie described him as a ‘towering figure in British broadcasting’

But we are all living do much past 70 allegedly

www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

#AlanYentob RIP

Alan Yentob, former BBC executive and TV presenter, dies aged 78 Wife pays tribute to ‘profoundly moral man’ who was ‘creative in every cell of his body’

#RIP 🪦 | #AlanYentob, former BBC executive and TV 📺 presenter, dies aged 78.
#FYI
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

In 2022, I got my only directly-employed BBC gig, ever - #AlanYentob 's Imagine - all about Miriam Margolyes . #ArchiveProducer #ArchivalProducer My 2 archival 'encounters' with him, 51 years apart. RIP 🕊

About 2 weeks ago, on my current #ArchiveProducer gig, I got an ep of BBC 1971 arts magazine show called 'Review.' Credits: 'Production Team - #AlanYentob '. #ArchivalProducer

Alan Yentob, former BBC executive and TV presenter, dies aged 78 Wife pays tribute to ‘profoundly moral man’ who was ‘creative in every cell of his body’

Art and Culture is what makes a society worth fighting for.

If we become detached from it the Fascists win.

RIP Alan Yentob

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/may/25/alan-y...

#AlanYentob #BBC #UK

In his post as Head of Arts, Alan Yentob had searched high and low and found that only Alan Yentob could handle the task. Having hired himself at a suitable salary, he did some excellent programmes — the one about the Soane Museum was especially fine — but I often wondered, while watching him in action, if he ever thought back to the days when his decisions had made life difficult for those of us who were doing the same thing.

The late #CliveJames is responsible for this particularly fine quote about #AlanYentob - taken from The Blaze of Obscurity, circa 2009 (I think)… #BBC #Yentob

Alan Yentob, former BBC executive and TV presenter, dies aged 78 Wife pays tribute to ‘profoundly moral man’ who was ‘creative in every cell of his body’

Sad.
I loved his Imagine programmes, he was such an insightful, gentle and unobtrusive interviewer.
#AlanYentob
RIP
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

An #Otwituary for broadcaster #AlanYentob

I came to the gallery of glass,
pressed my face against the pane
to glimpse art and word, a strain
of song. A man of easy gravitas
said ‘I curate what genius knows:
that an open mind is hard to close’.