CinemaOSMovie · 2025 · 0h 10m

When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville

90%(1)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.

Directed byJohn O'Rourke

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 10m
Language
EN
Released
June 8, 2025
Studios
BBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions

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Cast & crew

2 credited
Starring
Alan Yentob

Alan Yentob

Self

Jenny Saville

Self

Creative team
Directed by
John O'Rourke
Produced by
John O'Rourke

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