Watch: A glance again at Alan Yentob’s vibrant, inventive profession

Alan Yentob, the long-serving BBC arts broadcaster and documentary-maker, has died elderly 78.

Yentob profiled and interviewed quite a lot of necessary cultural and artistic figures through the years, together with David Bowie, Charles Saatchi, Maya Angelou and Grayson Perry, for TV collection corresponding to Omnibus, Arena and Imagine.

He additionally served as controller of BBC One and Two, and the organisation’s inventive director and head of tune and humanities. Here’s a glance again at his lengthy and sundry profession.