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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Alan_YentobAlan Yentob - Wikipedia

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   Alan Yentob was born into an Iraqi Jewish family in Stepney, London. Soon after he was born, his family moved to Manchester where his father was in business with his wife's family, the Khazams. One example of this collaboration were dealings in Haighton Holdings , published 1951, that shows involvement of his mother Flora, father Isaac and uncle Nadji Khazam. [ 4 ]

2. www.thejc.com › life-and-culture › how-eden-becameHow Eden became hell for Iraq's Jews - The Jewish Chronicle

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   Dec 2, 2011 · Yentob's interviewees, some of them family members and friends, recalled a golden age when Jews and Arabs lived side-by-side in peace. As golden ages go, it was a long one, lasting from 597 BCE ...

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3. www.independent.co.uk › arts-entertainment › profileProfile: Alan Yentob; The insider's extrovert - The Independent

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   Yentob was a baby boomer, born in 1947 in London to a family of Sephardic Jews who had left Iraq a few years earlier. His family quickly moved to Manchester and his father ran a successful textile ...

4. www.bbc.co.uk › blogs › radio4/2011/11BBC - Radio 4 and 4 Extra Blog: The Last Jews of Iraq

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   Nov 29, 2011 · Dear Alan Yentob: Over the past few days I have been so looking forward to your Radio-4 programme about Iraqi Jews, as I myself come from Iraq, and as my first ever love (when I was still a young ...

5. www.independent.co.uk › news › peopleAlan Yentob: 'I'm more involved in running the BBC than ...

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   Nov 26, 2012 · Standing outside the new studios of Radio 1, the BBC's creative director Alan Yentob is expounding the architectural merits of a wonderful vista that begins with a new paved piazza and extends ...

6. www.ft.com › content › c0e910c4-d005-11e5-831d-09fLunch with the FT: Alan Yentob - Financial Times

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   Feb 12, 2016 · The set menu offers three desserts but Yentob enthuses about a fourth: caramel ice cream, “which is quite strong but kind of amazing”. He orders one scoop of caramel and one of blood orange ...

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   Who is Alan Yentob?

   • Father, Isaac Reuben Yentob. [ 2 ] Alan Yentob, CBE (born 11 March 1947) is a retired British television executive and presenter. He has held senior roles at the BBC including head of music and arts, controller of BBC1 and controller of BBC2.

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   Why did Yentob appear on Newsnight?

   • When Newsnight was in meltdown over its Lord McAlpine broadcast, the BBC fielded Yentob to represent it on the programme. He made "soothing comments that sounded slightly like translations of Japanese sonnets", the critic Mark Lawson said.

   Alan Yentob: 'I'm more involved in running the BBC than people think'

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   Is Yentob a good senior executive?

   • Yentob is 65 but, despite his pension arrangements, has no intention of slowing up. He looks remarkably good for a senior executive of an organisation that is rarely out of the line of fire. During Entwistle's short tenure, Yentob was removed from the senior management team when the 25-strong BBC direction group was cut to a team of 12.

   Alan Yentob: 'I'm more involved in running the BBC than people think'

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   Where is Yentob now?

   • Except Yentob has disappeared. He may be in the Aleutians with Lord Lucan, writes James, or “in the Red Sea, in conversation with the Dalai Lama”. Only as the deal collapses does his voice come on the line — from Charles Saatchi’s yacht in the Mediterranean — and proclaim, “This is one of the worst moments of my professional career . . .

   Lunch with the FT: Alan Yentob - Financial Times

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   What happened to Yentob's charity?

   • The same is not true of two other institutions in Yentob’s life. Kids Company, the charity that he chaired for 12 years, collapsed six months ago in one of British philanthropy’s most controversial episodes.

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   Why did Yentob resign?

   • Yentob resigned as the BBC's creative director on 3 December 2015 in the wake of allegations that he had sought to influence the BBC's coverage of the Kids Company scandal. [ 20 ]

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8. www.kannehmasons.com › project › kanneh-mason-siblingsKanneh-Mason Siblings | The Kanneh-Masons

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   What impresses, whether watching the siblings perform together or as individuals, is a down-to-earth quality that is immensely engaging, which comes across very vibrantly in Alan Yentob’s documentary about the Kanneh-Masons as part of BBC1’s Imagine series created over Zoom during lockdown.