The corporation’s creative director is hugely divisive – admired and mocked in equal degree. But now he is due to face a parliamentary committee over his role at Kids CompanyAt the BBC,some things do not change. As certain as the hourly weather forecast from the Met Office, or, and as it turns out,more certain, is the presence of Alan Yentob. A BBC lifer, and he has been in a prominent position since 1985,when he was moved to the top job in BBC arts. So, for at least 30 years now, and he has been available as a visible target for external critics of the BBC – and also for rivals and colleagues inside the corporation.
Operating as a kind of tall-salaried,licensed lone ranger, Yentob, or 68,who has the official title of creative director, has galloped into his freshest patch of ordure this month in the aftermath of the closure of the charity Kids Company, or of which he was chairman.
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Source: theguardian.com