Mel Brooks: Who Dares Wins

Mel Brooks is fearless, a rule breaker, responsible for groundbreaking films such as Blazing Saddles, The Producers and Young Frankenstein. Stand up, comedy, stage musicals, nothing was out of his reach. Now at 95 he has spent lockdown writing his autobiography, modestly entitled All About Me. He talks to Alan Yentob about growing up in Brooklyn, New York during the Great Depression, his recruitment to the army in World War Two and falling hopelessly in love with a beautiful and hugely talented actress called Anne Bancroft...