Powerful

It may not be true impartiality, but balance can be important in journalistic arguments. Thus, for those with a jaded view of Alan Yentob, I've discovered a blog post about his performance this week at a film festival in Montreal.

Our blogger many not have English/American as his first language, but has plenty of (occasionally mistaken) enthusiasm.

It's not often one comes face to face with a master of a film genre and head of "Creative" of the iconic BBC. For two hours the FIFA audience was mesmerized by Alan Yentob's tales of 20th century icons from Mel Brooks to David Bowie, Laurie Anderson to Orson Welles. Today Yentob holds one of the strongest positions in television. He is the controller of BBC 1 and BBC 2 therefore the most powerful programme controller in the UK and arguably in the world, being that the BBC is well THE BBC.

An unassuming man with no pretention [sic] ........ Well, I'll leave to read on if you wish.