When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville

06/08/2025

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0hr 10min

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Documentary

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Alan Yentob
  • Jenny Saville

    INFORMATION

      Production Companies

    • BBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions

      Production Countries

    • United Kingdom

    LANGUAGES