David Sweetman was a British writer, critic, teacher and broadcaster.
10 Facts About David Sweetman
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David Sweetman took a diploma at Makerere College in Uganda and wrote a series of textbooks on teaching English for the British Council in Tunisia, as well as a series of adventure books and biographies published by Longmans for younger African readers to encourage their language skills.
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David Sweetman's poems were published in a number of periodicals including The Listener, the Times Literary Supplement, the New Statesman and Quarto.
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David Sweetman had a novel, A Tribal Fever, published in 1996.
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David Sweetman wrote a series of cookbooks and created restaurants with his longtime companion, Thai chef Vatcharin Bhumitchitr.
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In 1971, David Sweetman, who had been associated briefly with the BBC World Service, became presenter of "Poetry Workshop," one of BBC Radio London's first literary programmes.
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David Sweetman co-produced the weekly programme with Denis Boyles, an American poet and journalist, for Wanda's Factory, a London "underground" literary cooperative.
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David Sweetman interviewed a number of important literary figures for the programme, including Stephen Spender and Lawrence Durrell.
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David Sweetman subsequently became a television documentary director and producer, collaborating with Roderick Gradidge for a series on architecture, with Stephen Bayley for a series on design, and with Anton Dolin and Wayne Sleep for a series on the ballet.
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David Sweetman was diagnosed in early 2000 with multiple system atrophy and died in London two years later.