Education
His father was an architect, he was educated at the City of London School, Blackfriars, and began writing short stories for the British Broadcasting Corporation. He was then the anchorman for Day By Day on Southern Television.
screenwriter television presenter
His father was an architect, he was educated at the City of London School, Blackfriars, and began writing short stories for the British Broadcasting Corporation. He was then the anchorman for Day By Day on Southern Television.
He was a presenter of British Broadcasting Corporation Television"s Late Night Lincolnshire-Up discussion programme which was broadcast on British Broadcasting Corporation 2 between 1964 and 1972. He was a screenwriter for the 1970s situation comedy Please Sir! and the spin-off series The Fenn Street Gang and in 1986 was a writer for the British Broadcasting Corporation soap opera EastEnders. From 1970 to 1973 he presented the film programme Film Night, on which his interviewees included David Niven and Alfred Hitchcock.