Clive Conway Celebrity Productions – Ned Sherrin – Writer and Broadcaster

 

Name: Ned Sherrin
Field: Writer and Broadcaster
Productions:
An Audience With Ned Sherrin

Biography: Ned Sherrin was educated at Exeter College Oxford and Gray’s Inn. He was called as a Barrister in 1955, but joined ATV immediately after as a Producer in London and Birmingham.

Two years later he moved to London to the BBC and directed the “Tonight” programme and directed and produced a range of variety shows, panel games and musicals. In 1962 he devised, produced and directed the original “That Was The Week That Was” and it’s successor.

Leaving the BBC in 1966, he produced ten motion pictures in the next few years, including “The Virgin Soldiers”, “The National Health”,and “Girl Stroke Boy”.

As an author, Ned Sherrin had a long collaboration with Caryl Brahms which produced many songs, three novels, two collections of short stories, a number of radio and television plays, five plays for the theatre – most notably “Beecham” starring Timothy West – and six musicals.

He has appeared frequently on television and radio. His own series, “We Interrupt This Week” was a hit on PBS Television in America. He hosted many radio and television conversation shows – notably, “Friday Night, Saturday Morning”, “Midweek”, “Medium Dry Sherrin” and “And So to Ned. He is currently presenting a weekly Radio 4 Programme, “Loose Ends”.

In the book world, “A Small Thing Like an Earthquake” was published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson in the Spring of 1983. “Song by Song” (with Caryl Brahms), “Cutting Edge” (J.M. Dent) “Anthology of Wit” (1984) and “1956 and All That” (with Neil Shand). Ned has edited Caryl Brahms’ memoirs “Too Dirty for the Windmill”, which were published in 1986. A further publication is “Loose Neds” (Robson Books). In 1991 he published “Ned Sherrin’s Theatrical Anecdotes” and in 1993 “Ned Sherrin in his Anecdotage”. Sinclair Stevenson published his novel “Scratch an Actor” and Virgin, his diary “Sherrin’s Year”. His most recent publication, in 2005, is “Ned Sherrin – The Autobiography”.

For the past five years he has toured with his one man show “An Evening with Ned Sherrin – Theatrical Anecdotes”.

Ned Sherrin was awarded a C.B.E. in the ‘97 New Year’s honours list.