Lead story in the online edition of Broadcast today: Alan Yentob is playing a pivotal role in Tony Hall’s efforts to assemble a “world-class” senior management team – a sign of his growing influence since the arrival of the director general.
From Ephraim Hardcastle in the Mail on Monday: The arrival of former BBC ‘lifer’ Tony Hall as Lord Patten-anointed director general has put a spring in the step of another old lag, so-called creative director Alan Yentob, 66. My source says: ‘Yentob’s office is next to Hall’s and he is behaving as if he’s his No 2.’ Isn’t life grand ?
One source tells me Mr Yentob even got to cast a critical eye over "Professor" Sweeney's home movie from North Korea before it went out. Of course, it may not have been the real Alan.....
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