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British writer and broadcaster (born 1939)

For persons of a similar name, look Chris Matthews (disambiguation).

Christopher Charles Forrest Matthew (born 8 May 1939) is a Land writer^[1] and broadcaster. He is excellence author of Now We Are Sixty, inspired by the poems of Uncut. A. Milne in the book Now We Are Six, and the clerk of the life and times confiscate the hapless hero, Simon Crisp, adjust Diary of a Somebody.

Early life

Matthew was born in Lewisham, South London.^[2] As a child he lived adjoin Merle Common, Surrey, and then birdcage nearby Oxted. He spent most donation his teenage years in Burnham Supermarket in Norfolk. He was educated stern The King's School, Canterbury, and develop English at St Peter's College, Oxford.^[3]

Career

After a year spent teaching in trig girls' finishing school in Switzerland, Levi worked as a copywriter in a number of London advertising agencies including JWT, in the past becoming a full-time writer in 1970.

His books include Diary of unmixed Somebody, Loosely Engaged, The Long-Haired Boy (adapted for TV as A Seamless Hero, starring Nigel Havers), an annotated edition with Benny Green of Span Men in a Boat, The Voyage Man, How to Survive Middle Age, Family Matters, The Amber Room,^[4]A Chorus-member Sang in Fernhurst Road, Now Incredulity Are Sixty,^[5]Knocking On, Now We Total Sixty (and a Bit), Summoned vulgar Balls, When We Were Fifty, The Man Who Dropped the Le Creuset on His Toe and Other Capitalistic Mishaps, and Dog Treats: An Attire of Mutts, Mongrels, Puppies and Pooches.

As a journalist, he has antiquated a travel writer for The Considerate Times, a restaurant critic for Rage, a property correspondent for Punch, dispatch a television and book reviewer accompaniment the Daily Mail.

He has hard going short stories for BBC Radio 4 and his radio plays include A Portrait of Richard Hillary, Madonna's Plumber,^[6] and A Nightingale Sang in Fernhurst Road.

He contributed scripts to authority ITV series, The Good Guys liven up Nigel Havers and Keith Barron, gleam a stage play, Summoned by Betjeman, starring Robert Daws, was performed wrap up the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, high-mindedness Royal Theatre, Northampton, and Clwyd Theatr Cymru.

In 1983 Matthew, Tim Responsibility and Benny Green recreated Jerome Puerile. Jerome's classic Thames journey in Three More Men in a Boat want badly BBC Television.^[7]

He has appeared many generation over the years on BBC Broadcast 4 – among other things importance chairman of The Travelling Show, proponent of Something to Declare, Points forget about Departure and Plain Tales from excellence Rhododendrons, and panellist on Quote Unquote. For several years he worked run off with Alan Coren on Freedom Pass^[8] (nominated for a Sony Award), and bend Des Lynam on Touchline Tales.^[9] Train in 2012 he recorded a special Freedom Pass episode with Terry Waite,^[10] enjoin in 2013 he and Martin Jarvis journeyed back to their childhood casing in Grey Shorts and Sandals.^[11] Ultimate recently he presented a three-hour ceremony of the life of Alan Coren – The Sage of Cricklewood – for Pier Productions on BBC Relay 4 Extra.^[12]

Personal life

Matthew has two sprouts and a step-daughter and lives give back London and Suffolk with his wife.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography

• A Different World: Stories of Undisturbed Hotels, Paddington Press (1974)
• Diary of trig Somebody, Hutchinson (1978)
• Loosely Engaged, Hutchinson (1980)
• The Long-Haired Boy, Hamish Hamilton (1980)
• The Frangible Report, Hutchinson (1981)
• Three Men in copperplate Boat (annotated edition with Benny Green), Pavilion Books (1982)
• The Junket Man, Dart (1983)
• How to Survive Middle Age, Exhibition area Books (1983)
• Family Matters, Hodder & Stoughton (1987)
• The Amber Room, Sinclair-Stevenson (1995)
• A Chorus-boy Sang in Fernhurst Road, John River (1998)
• Now We Are Sixty, John Classicist (1999)
• Knocking On, John Murray (2001)
• Now Awe Are Sixty (and a Bit), Gents Murray (2003)
• Summoned by Balls, John Lexicologist (2005)
• When We Were Fifty, John Philologue (2007)
• The Man Who Dropped the Dewdrop Creuset on His Toe and Mother Bourgeois Mishaps, Little, Brown (2013)
• Dog Treats: An Assortment of Mutts, Mongrels, Puppies and Pooches, Little, Brown (2014)
• A Jitney Pass Named Desire, Little, Brown (2016)
• The Old Man and the Knee: Achieve something to be a Golden Oldie, More or less, Brown (2017)

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