Ned Sherrin

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 1989

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is something of a show business all-rounder - the moving spirit behind BBC TV's That Was the Week That Was, director of the musical Side by Side by Sondheim and currently presenter of Radio 4's Loose Ends. He is, of course, Ned Sherrin, and he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his idyllic childhood as a Somerset farmer's son, and the many different turns his life has subsequently taken.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Krestey Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.
0:05.0	For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.
0:08.0	The program was originally broadcast in 1989, and the presenter was Sue Lolly. My cast away this week is a broadcaster, a writer, a producer, a director, a performer, what you might call a show business all-rounder.
0:36.0	After reading law at Oxford, he was called to the bar,
0:39.0	but abandoned the legal profession without a backward glance
0:42.0	when television beckoned.
0:44.4	He was the moving spirit behind that was the week that was BBC Television's first and most famous
0:49.6	venture into satire.
0:51.9	After television he turned to films and to the theatre he
0:54.4	devised and directed side by side by Sondheim and also appeared in the show himself.
0:59.4	Now 58 he continues to work at a furious pace and enjoys nothing better than teasing
1:05.9	his guests and his radio for listeners with his wit and his gossip.
1:10.4	They call it loose ends, they call him Ned Sharon.
1:14.0	They might have called you Ted Sharon, I understand, which wouldn't have been the same at all.
1:18.0	No, I was called Ted in the army and I hated it.
1:21.0	I'd always been called Edward at home.
1:22.0	When my initials are
1:23.1	EGS I was called Eggie at school and I went in the army and Ted descended on me and I
1:28.6	didn't like that at all so when I went up to Oxford I decided drastic steps
1:32.2	had to be taken my father had always called me Ned.
1:35.0	I think he rather resented the fact that I then made it public.
1:38.2	He thought it was sort of his special copyright, but anyway, Ned has stuck.
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