1. Edward George Sherrin was an English broadcaster, author and stage director.
13 Facts About Ned Sherrin
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Ned Sherrin appeared in a variety of radio and television satirical shows and theatre shows, some of which he directed and produced.
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Ned Sherrin was born at Gawlers Farm, Low Ham, Somerset, the second son of smallholding farmer Thomas Adam Ned Sherrin and Dorothy Finch.
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In 1962, Ned Sherrin 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.
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Ned Sherrin produced and directed many theatre productions in London's West End, including Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell and the musical revue Side by Side by Sondheim.
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Ned Sherrin 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.
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Ned Sherrin played the part of Addison in the film Orlando released in 1992.
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On BBC Radio 4, from 1986, Ned Sherrin presented a light entertainment show on Saturday mornings called Loose Ends, and Counterpoint, a quiz show about all types of music, until forced off the air when his voice succumbed to throat cancer.
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Ned Sherrin toured the UK with his one-man show An Evening of Theatrical Anecdotes.
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Ned 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.
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Openly gay, Ned Sherrin was a patron of the London Gay Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Stephen Sondheim Society of Singapore up until 1995.
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Ned Sherrin was awarded a CBE in the 1997 New Year Honours.
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Ned Sherrin was diagnosed with unilateral vocal cord paralysis in January 2007; this diagnosis was later changed to one of throat cancer, from which he died on 1 October 2007, aged 76.