When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville (2025)
When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville (2025)
As a part of a tribute night to broadcaster and television executive Alan Yentob, he interviews leading British artist Jenny Saville. One of the most successful figurative painters working today, she came to prominence as part of the YBA movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She has been reluctant to discuss her work for many years on television, until now. Alan Yentob was working with her on a film for Imagine and caught up with her in Vienna on the eve of two major 2025 exhibitions she is mounting. This was the last interview Alan Yentob conducted in a career spanning six decades at the BBC, bringing many of the world’s leading artists and creatives to the screen. Alan also persuaded Jenny to allow cameras into her painting studio for the first time in almost three decades.

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Alan Yentob Alan Yentob As: Self
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As a part of a tribute night to broadcaster and television executive Alan Yentob, he interviews leading British artist Jenny Saville. One of the most successful figurative painters working today, she came to prominence as part of the YBA movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She has been reluctant to discuss her work for many years on television, until now. Alan Yentob was working with her on a film for Imagine and caught up with her in Vienna on the eve of two major 2025 exhibitions she is mounting. This was the last interview Alan Yentob conducted in a career spanning six decades at the BBC, bringing many of the world’s leading artists and creatives to the screen. Alan also persuaded Jenny to allow cameras into her painting studio for the first time in almost three decades.


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Genres: Documentary

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Release Date: 08 June 2025

Country: GB

Runtime: 10m

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Company: BBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions

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John O'Rourke

John O'Rourke

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Frances Kilgour

Frances Kilgour

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Lauren Ferguson

Lauren Ferguson

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Tanya Hudson

Tanya Hudson

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Rachael Scott

Rachael Scott

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Claire McCluskey

Claire McCluskey

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Lisa Phelan

Lisa Phelan

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Suzanne McKenna

Suzanne McKenna

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Michael Rottman

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Tom Hayward

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