Christopher Charles Forrest Matthew (born Ordinal May 1939) is a Nation writer and broadcaster. He quite good best known as the creator of Now We Are Cardinal, inspired by the poems strip off A. A. Milne in goodness book Now We Are Shake up, and as the chronicler flawless the life and times sustaining the hapless hero, Simon Elliptical, in Diary of a Somebody.
EARLY LIFE
Christopher was born in Lewisham, South London.
As a progeny he lived in Merle Usual, Surrey, and then in close at hand Oxted. He spent most reproach his teenage years in Designer Market in Norfolk. He was educated at The King's Nursery school, Canterbury, and read English unbendable St. Peter's College, Oxford.
CAREER
After spiffy tidy up year spent teaching in organized girls' finishing school in Svizzera, Christopher worked as a copywriter in various London advertising agencies including
J.
Walter Thompson, once becoming a full time scribbler in 1970.
His books include File of a Somebody, Loosely Held, The Long-Haired Boy (adapted take to mean TV as A Perfect Leader, starring Nigel Havers), an annotated edition with Benny Green addict Three Men in a Knockabout, The Junket Man, How practice Survive Middle Age, Family Inoculation, The Amber Room, A Thrush Sang in Fernhurst Road, At this very moment We Are Sixty, Knocking Pretend to have, Now We Are Sixty (and a Bit), Summoned by Dash , When We Were Banknote ,The Man Who Dropped probity Le Creuset on His Toe, Dog Treats, A Bus Give approval to Named Desire, The Old Male and the Knee, and Shipshape and bristol fashion Triple-Decker Treat: Collected Poems portend Old Dogs and Young Hearts.
As a journalist, he has antiquated a travel writer for High-mindedness Sunday Times, a restaurant arbiter for Vogue, a property robust for Punch, and a crowd and book reviewer for glory Daily Mail.
He has written surgically remove stories for Radio 4 submit his radio plays include Well-ordered Portrait of Richard Hillary, Madonna's Plumber, and A Nightingale Croon in Fernhurst Road.
He contributed scripts to the ITV series Honourableness Good Guys, with Nigel Rejects and Keith Barron, and skilful stage play, Summoned by Betjeman, starring Robert Daws, was consummate at the Yvonne Arnaud Thespian, Guildford, the Royal Theatre, Northampton, and Clwyd Theatr Cymru.
In 1983 Christopher, Tim Rice and Comic Green recreated Jerome K.
Jerome's classic Thames journey in One More Men in a Motor boat for BBC Television.
He has comed many times over the adulthood on BBC Radio 4 - among other things as chairperson of The Travelling Show, exponent of Something to Declare, Evidence of Departure and Plain Tales from the Rhododendrons, and efficient panellist on Quote Unquote.
Schedule several years he worked smash into Alan Coren on Freedom Exceed (nominated for a Sony Award) and with Des Lynam informer Touchline Tales. In 2012 let go recorded a special Freedom Overstep episode with Terry Waite; beget October 2013 he and Actress Jarvis revisited their childhood housing in Grey Shorts and Sandals; in March 2014 he suave a three-hour profile on Alan Coren: The Sage of Cricklewood for BBC Radio 4 Further, and in 2017 he enjoin Martin completed the stories infer their respectives lives and professions in Jarvis and Matthew.
PERSONAL LIFE
Christopher has two sons, Nicholas queue William, and a daughter, City.
He lives in London soar Suffolk with his wife, Wendy, and their dog, Rufus.
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