Missing ingredient

I was wrong - there was added Yentob.

Al conducted an on-stage chat with actress Gemma Arterton - Twitter last spotted them at a Prince concert in Shepherds Bush.

Wiser heads have pointed me to previous BBC Arts Boosts. I found one from 2006, when Alan Yentob and Hanif Kureishi launched The Fifty, with The Royal Court Theatre. 50 nominated writers got £1,000 and coaching. Alan Yentob was on the board of the Royal Court until 2002. Yesterday the Royal Court's Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone was announced as a BBC "creative leader".

I found another from 2009 in which DG Mark Thompson announced the creation of a "pan-BBC Arts Board".

"The aim of the board is to join up and maximise the programming that the BBC delivers in the arts and music space through better planning, creativity and collaboration across the whole of the BBC's arts family. This will include regular input from external experts and stakeholders as needed".

Television arts commissioner Mark Bell (Glenalmond College and Birmingham) was also anointed as Arts Co-ordinator of the BBC "with a role to co-ordinate and maximise the BBC's arts output across TV, radio and online". Presumably that job now goes to Jonty Claypole, and Mark can return to commissioning Imagine and The Culture Show.

In 2012 BBC Arts Editor (another part of the Thommo initiative) Will Gompertz (previous employer Nicholas Serota at the Tate, now appointed to head "a group of creative leaders who will act as a sounding board across the BBC") joined Richard Bacon on 5Live to discuss his job.

"I also get to sit on something called the BBC's Arts Board, which is hysterical. It's like being on an episode of Twenty Twelve, when people like Alan Yentob and all the rest of them come in. We talk about the BBC's arts strategy. And there isn't one, it transpires. It is great fun to talk about it."