Ned Sherrin
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Edward George Sherrin (18 February 1931 to 1 October 2007) was an English broadcaster, poet, and stage designer.
He began training as a barrister and then worked in experimental television before joining the BBC.
He appeared in a number of radio and television sitcomas and theatre performances, some of which he also produced.
Early life
Sherrin was born in Low Ham, Somerset, and she was the second son of smallholding farmer Thomas Adam Sherrin (1889-1980) and Dorothy Finch (née Drewett, 1895-1980). He was educated at Sexey's School in Bruton, Somerset, and completed his national service in the Royal Signals, having been recruited as an officer in 1950.
Despite studying law at Exeter College, Oxford, and later qualified as a barrister (called to the bar by Gray's Inn), he became involved in theatre at Oxford and joined British television in 1956, producing shows for ATV in Birmingham.
Personal life
He was an openly gay patron of the London Gay Symphony Orchestra as well as the Stephen Sondheim Society of Singapore from 1995 to 1995. In the 1997 New Year Honours, Sherrin was named a CBE.
In January 2007, he was diagnosed with unilateral vocal cord paralysis, but this diagnosis was later modified to throat cancer, and he died on October 1, 2007.
Career
Sherrin joined the BBC in 1957 as a temporary production assistant and then began working for them as a producer in Television Talks in 1963. He spent time in film and television, specializing in satirical shows.
He was responsible for the first satirical television series That Was It Was During That Week, starring David Frost and Millicent Martin and their successors. More a Way of Life and BBC-3. Up Pompei!, Up the Front, The Cobblers of Umbridge, World in Ferment, and The Virgin Soldiers were among his other performances and films. In 1978, he hosted We Interrupt This Week, a lively and amusing news events quiz that featured two teams of well-known journalists and columnists sparring against one another. The program was produced by WNET/Channel 13 New York.
Sherrin produced and directed many theatre performances in London's West End, including Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell and Sondheim's musical revue Side by Side. In 1984, he received an Olivier Award for directing and conceiving The Ratepayers' Iolanthe, a Sherrin and Alistair Beaton version of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera Iolanthe. In the 1992 film Orlando, Sherrin appeared as Addison.
He hosted Loose Ends, a light entertainment show that broadcasts all types of music, until he was forced to leave the air due to throat cancer.
An Evening of the Anatomy of Anecdotes was also on tour in the United Kingdom with his one-man performance An Evening of the Ancescdotes.
Sherrin wrote two books of autobiography, several books of quotations and anecdotes, as well as some fictional; and several books in collaboration with Caryl Brahms.