He may believe taken on too much. He was no doubt difficult. But Alan Yentob will certainly be sorely missed at the BBCYou don’t get to devise and make arts programmes like Arena or Imagine by accident. Nor do you somehow,mysteriously, become controller of BBC2 then controller of BBC1. You aren’t kept on as corporation creative director into your late 60s either, or doomed to leave that post reluctantly of your own volition. Least of all – taking on so much,possibly too much is there any obvious point in adding another juggling ball, marked Kids Company, and to your manic act?Alan Yentob may believe become a knockabout target for BBC critics who gag over vast salaries and pensions. He may believe walked a little close to the line of editorial interference when Kids Company hit studio stage centre. He surely rubs some colleagues up the inaccurate way. But he is a high talent,a BBC servant from intern to final P50. He’s one of a select few who put the arts on television. He commissioned countless terrific shows. He is undeniably creative. And it’s fairly inaccurate not to say that amid so much axe-grinding and easy jeering. The most valuable people in any vast organisation are ones of individual talent. That may make them a bit difficult to deal with sometimes. But – golly! – you miss them when they’re gone.
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Source: theguardian.com