Background
The son of a building engineer, Sheasby was born in Fulwood, Sheffield.
The son of a building engineer, Sheasby was born in Fulwood, Sheffield.
He was educated at King Edward VII School, where he was a county-standard cross-country runner.
The only time he lived outside Sheffield was when he went to the London School of Economics to read history. Sheasby also trained as a teacher. They lived in the heart of Nether Edge.
He started his radio career in 1967 at Radio Sheffield as education producer and from 1988 onwards, worked for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4.
In addition to his work for the British Broadcasting Corporation, from 2002 to 2004 he taught Media Studies and Creative Writing at University of Leeds as Royal Literary Fund fellow and taught Media Studies and Creative Writing at University of Warwick as Royal Literary Fund fellow between 2004 until his death in 2010. His dramatisations of Erich Maria Remarque"s novel All Quiet on the Western Front, the 2009 dramatisation of Kurt Vonnegut"s science fiction novel Slaughterhouse-Five were also critically acclaimed.
At the time of his death, he had just completed an adaptation of J.L. Carr"s novel A Month in the Country. He completed the dramatisation in a hospice bed with a borrowed laptop.
lieutenant was broadcast as the Saturday Play in November 2010.
