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Edward George "Ned" Sherrin CBE (18 February 1931 – 1
October 2007) was an English
broadcaster, author and stage director. He qualified as a barrister and then worked
in independent television before joining the BBC.
He appeared in a variety of radio and television satirical shows
and theatre shows, some of which he also directed.
Early
life
Born in a farming family at Low Ham in the Somerset Levels, Sherrin attended Sexey's School,
in Bruton, Somerset.[1]
Although he read law at Exeter College, Oxford and
subsequently qualified as a barrister, he became involved in theatre at
Oxford and joined British
television at the founding of independent television in 1956,
producing shows for ATV in Birmingham.
Career
Sherrin joined the BBC in 1957 as a temporary production
assistant, then began working for them as a producer in "Television
Talks" in 1963. [2]
Specialising in satirical
shows, he worked extensively in film production and television.
In 1962 he was responsible for the first satirical television
series That Was The Week That
Was starring David
Frost and Millicent Martin and its successors
Not So Much a
Programme, More a Way of Life and BBC-3.
His other shows and films included Up Pompeii!, Up the Front,
The Cobblers of Umbridge and The Virgin Soldiers.
In 1978, he also hosted We Interrupt This Week, a lively
and humorous news events quiz featuring two teams of well-known
journalists and columnists sparring against one another. The show
was a production of WNET/Channel 13 New York.
Sherrin produced and directed numerous theatre productions in London's West End,
including Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell and
the landmark musical Side By Side By Sondheim.
He received an Olivier Award in 1984 for directing and
conceiving The Ratepayers' Iolanthe, an adaptation by
Sherrin and Alistair Beaton of the Gilbert
and Sullivan opera Iolanthe.[3]
On BBC Radio 4,
from 1986, he presented a light entertainment show on Saturday
evenings called Loose Ends[4],
and Counterpoint, a quiz show
about all types of music, until forced off the air when his voice
succumbed to throat cancer.
He also toured the UK with his one man show An Evening of
Theatrical Anecdotes.[4]
Sherrin wrote two volumes of autobiography, several books of quotations and anecdotes, as well as some
fiction; and several works in collaboration with Caryl Brahms.
Personal
life
Openly gay,[5]
he was a patron of the London Gay Symphony Orchestra.[6]
Sherrin was awarded a CBE in the 1997 New Year’s
honours list.[7][8][9] He was
diagnosed with unilateral vocal cord paralysis in
January 2007 [10] and
died of complications of throat cancer on 1 October 2007,
aged 76.[11]
Selected
works
- Sherrin, Ned
(1983), A small thing — like an earthquake, London:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
- Sherrin,
Ned; Shand, Neil (1984), 1956 and all that: a memorable history
of England since the war to end all wars (Two), London: M
Joseph
- Sherrin, Ned
(1984), Cutting edge, or, "Back in the knife-box, Miss Sharp":
Ned Sherrin's anthology of wit., London: J M Dent
- Brahms,
Caryl; Sherrin, Ned (1984), Song by song: the lives and work of
14 great lyric writers, Egerton, Bolton: R Anderson
Publications
- Brahms, Caryl;
Sherrin, Ned (1986), Too dirty for the windmill, London:
Constable
- Sherrin, Ned
(1991), Ned Sherrin's theatrical anecdotes: a connoisseur's
collection of legends, stories, and gossip., London:
Virgin
- Sherrin, Ned
(1993), Ned Sherrin in his anecdotage: a classic collection
from the master raconteur., London: Virgin
- Sherrin, Ned
(1995), The Oxford dictionary of humorous quotations,
Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press
- Sherrin, Ned
(1996), Sherrin's year, London: Virgin
- Sherrin, Ned
(1996), Scratch an actor, London:
Sinclair-Stevenson
- Brahms,
Caryl; Sherrin, Ned (1998), The Mitford girls: a musical,
London: Warner/Chappell Music
- Sherrin, Ned
(2004), I wish I'd said that, New York: Oxford University
Press
- Sherrin, Ned
(2005), Ned Sherrin: the autobiography, London: Little,
Brown
- Frost, David; Sherrin,
Ned (1963), That was the week that was, London: W H
Allen
References
- ^
Bio: Ned Sherrin
screenonline.org.uk
- ^ Briggs, Asa (1995),
History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, Oxford
University Press, p. 158, ISBN
019215964X
- ^
Olivier Award winners for
1984
- ^ a
b
Smith, Alistair
(2007-10-02), "Satirical trailblazer and
broadcaster Ned Sherrin dies", The Stage, http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/18389/satirical-trailblazer-and-broadcaster-ned, retrieved
2007-10-04
- ^ Dwyer, Ciara (2005-10-30), "Sherrin and the source of
all pleasure", The Independent, http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/news-gossip/sherrin-and-the-source-of-all-pleasure-473930.html
- ^ "London Gay Symphony Orchestra" (PDF), Out in
the City, July 2007
- ^
"Ned Sherrin". Lasting
Tribute. http://www.lastingtribute.co.uk/tribute/sherrin/2647095. Retrieved
2009-07-04.
- ^
"Tributes paid to Ned Sherrin
CBE". BBC Press Office. BBC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/10_october/02/sherrin.shtml. Retrieved
2009-07-04.
- ^
"Ned Sherrin: That Was The
Life That Was". Times Online. 2007-10-02. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article2571055.ece. Retrieved
2009-07-04.
- ^
The silencing of Ned
Sherrin, Daily Mail Online, 2007-03-23, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-443476/The-silencing-Ned-Sherrin.html, retrieved
2008-10-20
- ^
Ned Sherrin, wit,
impresario, bon viveur and Radio 4 stalwart, dies at 76,
Guardian Unlimited, 2007-10-01, http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/oct/02/bbc.radio, retrieved
2007-10-01
External
links
| Persondata |
| NAME |
Sherrin, Ned |
| ALTERNATIVE
NAMES |
Sherrin, Edward George |
| SHORT
DESCRIPTION |
|
| DATE OF BIRTH |
1931-02-08 |
| PLACE OF
BIRTH |
Low Ham, Somerset, England |
| DATE OF DEATH |
2007-10-01 |
| PLACE OF
DEATH |
Chelsea,
London |
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