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When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville

2025-06-08
9
en 10m
Documentary
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.

Director

John O'Rourke

Producer

John O'Rourke

Production Manager

Frances Kilgour

Researcher

Lauren Ferguson

Executive Producer

Tanya Hudson

Director of Photography

Michael Rottman

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Status

Released

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Companies

  • BBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions