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{{Infobox person
| name = Ned Sherrin

| honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]]

| image = Ned Sherrin Portrait.jpg
| caption = Ned Sherrin
| birth_name = Edward George Sherrin
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1931|02|18}}
| birth_place = [[Low Ham]], [[Somerset]], England
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2007|10|1|1931|02|18}}
| death_place = [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]], [[London]], England
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| nationality = British
| occupation = Broadcaster, author and stage director
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'''Edward George Sherrin''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (18 February 1931 – 1 October 2007) was an English broadcaster, author and stage director. He qualified as a [[barrister]] and then worked in independent television before joining the [[BBC]]. He appeared in a variety of radio and television satirical shows and theatre shows, some of which he also directed.

== Early life ==
Sherrin was born at Gawlers Farm, [[Low Ham]], [[Somerset]], the second son of [[smallholding]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ned-sherrin-395795.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220618/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ned-sherrin-395795.html |archive-date=18 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Ned Sherrin|website=[[Independent.co.uk]]|date=18 September 2011}}</ref> farmer Thomas Adam Sherrin (1889–1965) and Dorothy Finch (née Drewett; 1895–1980).<ref name="oxforddnb.com">{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-99194|isbn = 978-0-19-861412-8|doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/99194|title = The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year = 2004}}</ref> He was educated at [[Sexey's School]], in [[Bruton]], Somerset,<ref>{{cite news|last=Coveney|first=Michael|title=Groundbreaking iconoclast bows out|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/oct/02/radio.guardianobituaries|access-date=21 April 2014|newspaper=The Guardian|date=2 October 2007}}</ref><ref>[http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1204295/index.html Bio: Ned Sherrin] screenonline.org.uk</ref> and rendered his national service in the [[Royal Signals]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Ned Sherrin|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009mdnz|access-date=8 February 2015}}</ref> being commissioned as an officer in 1950.<ref>''Supplement to the London Gazette, 8 September 1950'', p. 4527.</ref>

Although he read law at [[Exeter College, Oxford]], and subsequently qualified as a barrister (called to the bar by [[Gray's Inn]]),<ref name="oxforddnb.com"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Obituary: Ned Sherrin|date=2 October 2007|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6705385.stm|publisher=BBC|access-date=21 April 2014}}</ref> he became involved in theatre at [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and joined British television in 1956 shortly after the founding of independent television, producing shows for [[Associated TeleVision|ATV]] in Birmingham.

== Career ==
Sherrin joined the BBC in 1957 as a temporary production assistant, then began working for them as a producer in Television Talks in 1963.<ref name="historybbc">{{citation |title=History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom |first=Asa |last=Briggs |year=1995 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-215964-X |page=158}}</ref> Specialising in [[satire|satirical]] shows, he worked extensively in film production and television.

In 1962, he was responsible for the first satirical television series ''[[That Was The Week That Was]]''<ref>{{cite web|title=Sherrin, Ned (1931–2007)|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1204295/index.html|work=Screenonline|publisher=BFI|access-date=21 April 2014}}</ref> starring [[David Frost]] and [[Millicent Martin]] and its successors ''[[Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life]]'' and ''[[BBC-3 (TV series)|BBC-3]]''. His other shows and films included ''[[Up Pompeii!]]'', ''[[Up the Front]]'', ''The Cobblers of Umbridge'', ''[[World in Ferment]]'', and ''[[The Virgin Soldiers (film)|The Virgin Soldiers]]''. In 1978, he also hosted ''We Interrupt This Week'', a lively and humorous news events quiz featuring two teams of well-known journalists and columnists sparring against one another. The show was a production of WNET/Channel 13 New York.

Sherrin produced and directed many theatre productions in London's [[West End theatre|West End]], including ''[[Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell]]'' and the [[musical revue]] ''[[Side by Side by Sondheim]]''. He 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]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/olivier_awards/view/item98519/Olivier-Winners-1984/ |title=Olivier Award winners for 1984 |access-date=6 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111155857/http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/olivier_awards/view/item98519/Olivier-Winners-1984/ |archive-date=11 January 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Sherrin played the part of Addison in the film ''[[Orlando (film)|Orlando]]'' released in 1992.

On [[BBC Radio 4]], from 1986, he presented a light entertainment show on Saturday mornings (latterly evenings) called ''[[Loose Ends (radio)|Loose Ends]]'',<ref name="Stage20071004">{{citation |title=Satirical trailblazer and broadcaster Ned Sherrin dies |date=2 October 2007 |periodical=[[The Stage]] |first=Alistair |last=Smith |url=http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/18389/satirical-trailblazer-and-broadcaster-ned |access-date=4 October 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Macintyre|first=James|title=Ned Sherrin, stalwart of Radio 4, dies aged 76|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/ned-sherrin-stalwart-of-radio-4-dies-aged-76-395742.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220618/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/ned-sherrin-stalwart-of-radio-4-dies-aged-76-395742.html |archive-date=18 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=21 April 2014|newspaper=The Independent|date=2 October 2007}}</ref> and ''[[Counterpoint (radio)|Counterpoint]]'', a quiz show about all types of music, until forced off the air when his voice succumbed to throat cancer.

He also toured the UK with his one-man show ''An Evening of Theatrical Anecdotes''.<ref Name="Stage20071004" />

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]].

== Personal life ==
Openly gay,<ref>{{cite news|last=Martin|first=Douglas|title=Ned Sherrin, Creator of Mock News 'Week,' Dies at 76|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/arts/05sherrin.html?ref=arts&_r=0|access-date=21 April 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=5 October 2007}}</ref><ref name="irish">{{citation |title=Sherrin and the source of all pleasure |first=Ciara |last=Dwyer |date=30 October 2005 |periodical=[[The Independent]] |url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/news-gossip/sherrin-and-the-source-of-all-pleasure-473930.html}}</ref> he was a patron of the London Gay Symphony Orchestra,<ref>{{cite news|last=Gibson|first=Owen|title=Ned Sherrin, wit, impresario, bon viveur and Radio 4 stalwart, dies at 76|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/oct/02/bbc.radio|access-date=21 April 2014|newspaper=The Guardian|date=2 October 2007}}</ref> as well as the [[Stephen Sondheim]] Society of Singapore up until 1995. Sherrin was awarded a [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] in the [[1997 New Year Honours]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/10_october/02/sherrin.shtml|title=Tributes paid to Ned Sherrin CBE|publisher=BBC|access-date=4 July 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article2571055.ece|title=Ned Sherrin: That Was The Life That Was|date=2 October 2007|work=The Times|access-date=4 July 2009 | location=London | first=David | last=Sanderson}}</ref>

He was diagnosed with [[Vocal cord paresis|unilateral vocal cord paralysis]] in January 2007; this diagnosis was later changed to one of [[Head and neck cancer|throat cancer]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1564867/Veteran-broadcaster-Ned-Sherrin-dies-of-cancer.html|title=Veteran broadcaster Ned Sherrin dies of cancer|newspaper=The Telegraph|access-date=20 September 2018}}</ref> from which he died on 1 October 2007, aged 76.<ref>{{Citation |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/oct/02/bbc.radio |title=Ned Sherrin, wit, impresario, bon viveur and Radio 4 stalwart, dies at 76 |date=1 October 2007 |access-date=1 October 2007 |work=The Guardian | location=London | first=Owen | last=Gibson}}</ref>

== Selected works ==
* {{cite book |title=A small thing – like an earthquake |first=Ned |last=Sherrin |place=London |publisher=Weidenfeld and Nicolson |year=1983}}
* {{cite book |title=1956 and all that: a memorable history of England since the war to end all wars (Two) |first1=Ned |last1=Sherrin |first2=Neil |last2=Shand |place=London |publisher=M Joseph |year=1984}}
* {{cite book |title=Cutting edge, or, "Back in the knife-box, Miss Sharp": Ned Sherrin's anthology of wit. |first=Ned |last=Sherrin |place=London |publisher=J M Dent |year=1984}}
* {{cite book |title=Song by song: the lives and work of 14 great lyric writers |first1=Caryl |last1=Brahms |first2=Ned |last2=Sherrin |place=Egerton, Bolton |publisher=R Anderson Publications |year=1984}}
* {{cite book |title=Too dirty for the windmill |url=https://archive.org/details/toodirtyforwindm00brah |url-access=registration |publisher=Constable |first1=Caryl |last1=Brahms |author-link=Caryl Brahms |first2=Ned |last2=Sherrin |place=London |year=1986|isbn=9780094663800 }}
* {{cite book |title=Ned Sherrin's theatrical anecdotes: a connoisseur's collection of legends, stories, and gossip. |first=Ned |last=Sherrin |place=London |publisher=Virgin |year=1991}}
* {{cite book |title=Ned Sherrin in his anecdotage: a classic collection from the master raconteur. |first=Ned |last=Sherrin |place=London |publisher=Virgin |year=1993}}
* {{cite book |title=The Oxford dictionary of humorous quotations |first=Ned |last=Sherrin |place=Oxford ; New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1995}}
* {{cite book |title=Sherrin's year |first=Ned |last=Sherrin |place=London |publisher=Virgin |year=1996}}
* {{cite book |title=Scratch an actor |first=Ned |last=Sherrin |place=London |publisher=[[Sinclair-Stevenson]] |year=1996}}
* {{cite book |title=The Mitford girls: a musical |first1=Caryl |last1=Brahms |first2=Ned |last2=Sherrin |place=London |publisher=Warner/Chappell Music |year=1998}}
* {{cite book |title=I wish I'd said that |first=Ned |last=Sherrin |place=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004}}
* {{cite book |title=Ned Sherrin: the autobiography |first=Ned |last=Sherrin |place=London |publisher=Little, Brown |year=2005}}
* {{cite book |title=That was the week that was |first1=David |last1=Frost |author-link=David Frost|first2=Ned |last2=Sherrin |place=London |publisher=W H Allen |year=1963}}

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