Alan Yentob

Alan Yentob
Birth date:	11 March 1947
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Controller of BBC One
Main time period active:	1993, 1996
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Review, Omnibus, Arena, Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story, The Late Show, Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, Imagine, The Story of Light Entertainment, The Culture Show, QI Genesis, Goodbye Television Centre, The Life of Rock with Brian Pern, W1A
IMDb profile

Alan Yentob was Controller of BBC One from 1992 to 1996. He was also Controller of BBC Two from 1987 to 1993. He commissioned the 1996 television movie for BBC One — as well as The Dark Dimension, a thirtieth anniversary project that was eventually scrapped with minor ideas brought into Dimensions in Time.

In the DWU

He is mentioned as being one of the guests at a party in the novel The Dying Days.