Hello I'm Krestey Young and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1993 and the presenter was Sue Lolly. My castaway this week is a television writer and producer. He comes from a show business family and was brought up with

musicals, summer shows and pantomimes always itching to take part in them

himself. His chance came after the war in which he'd served in the Royal Artillery

in North Africa.

Eventually he became a script editor in one of the newly formed I-TV companies, Redifusion.

And since then, the shows he's produced and co-written add up to a roll call of the most popular situation comedies shown

on British television.

They include Dad's Army, it ain't half-hot-mum, Heidi High, and a lower lower to name but four.

He's been awarded the OE and honoured by Bafter. Now 70 he's almost retired but keeps a watchful eye on the

latest series he's given the BBC, You rang lord he is David Croft so David the nation has

hundreds of hours of television comedy to thank you for have you got a favorite

or are you always in love with your latest creation? I'm usually in

love with the latest creation. I think they're all favorites in their own way.

Dad's army of course obviously was a great pleasure to do and I think it represented a sort of a very important time when we

are all very brave and behave very well. I loved it ain't half hot mom that was a

representative of a very important time in our Imperial history, in the time when I was in the army as well in India,

and so was Jimmy Perry, Mike, co-walfin that one.

In their own way, they're all terrific favours.

It was highly high, it was enormous fund because we used to have a huge amount of fun when we did that.

But that's what they all have in common, really, isn't it, that they're all based on kind of

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