It was announced in April 2008 that Anderson, who had previously filled in for host Ned Sherrin from 2006 until his death from throat cancer in 2007, would be taking over as permanent host of Loose Ends.

In 1964 he appeared as Richard Burbage in Sherrin and Caryl Brahms musical of No Bed for Bacon, while his early stature as a personality was confirmed by a cartoon advert he devised for the Brewer ’ s Society proclaiming the charms of the local pub.

It was produced by Ned Sherrin and retained only Frankie Howerd from the cast of the original series ( Ludicrus, for example, was played by Michael Hordern in the film adaptation, Erotica by Madeline Smith and Nausius by Royce Mills ).

It was devised, produced and directed by Ned Sherrin and presented by David Frost.

Sherrin attempted to revive the formula with Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life, but this was less successful.

In a foreword to a subsequent edition of No Bed for Bacon ( which traded on the association by declaring itself " A Story of Shakespeare and Lady Viola in Love ") Ned Sherrin, Private Eye insider and former writing partner of Brahms ', confirmed that he had lent a copy of the novel to Stoppard after he joined the writing team, but that the basic plot of the film had been independently developed by Marc Norman, who was unaware of the earlier work.

In 1907, the current arcaded station entrance was opened to a design by George Sherrin.

Frost was chosen by writer and producer Ned Sherrin to host a pioneering satirical programme called That Was The Week That Was, alias TW3.

Ned Sherrin included the quote in the Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations ; it was introduced in the third edition in 2005.

Salad Days was next revived in April 1996 at London's Vaudeville Theatre, directed by Ned Sherrin and featuring Simon Connolly, Nicola Fulljames and Richard Sisson.

Edward George " Ned " Sherrin CBE ( 18 February 1931 – 1 October 2007 ) was an English broadcaster, author and stage director.

He soon was hired by ATV and in 1956, joined Ned Sherrin and Noele Gordon in Birmingham to set up and launch ATV Midlands where his job was as Head Of Light Entertainment.

The book's foreword was written by British theatre director Ned Sherrin.

Commencing in 2007, the award for Best Musical was renamed The Ned Sherrin Award, in memory of the entertainer and raconteur, for many years the witty compere of the Evening Standard Awards ceremony.

The music was commissioned by Ned Sherrin for the satirical TV series That Was The Week That Was and used in a sequence featuring the titular footwear ( then fashionable ).

It was hosted by Ned Sherrin until he became ill in late 2006 with a reported throat infection, and later throat cancer.

Typically the programme was topped and tailed by Sherrin reading a comic monologue which, over the years, was written by Alistair Beaton, D. A. Barham, Ian Brown & James Hendrie, Nev Fountain, Tom Jamieson, Tom Mitchelson, Ian Hawkins, Terence Dackombe, Andrew Nickolds, Steve Punt and Pete Sinclair.

Theatre critic Ned Sherrin was once asked to meet a young friend of his parents who was visiting London from South Africa and took him to a restaurant.

Gordon then studied the television medium at New York University in America and after her return helped Reg Watson and Ned Sherrin launch ATV Midlands in 1956.

* Ned Sherrin, Creator of Mock News ‘ Week ,’ Dies at 76-The New York Times

Rushton ’ s impersonation of the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan caught the attention of Ned Sherrin, a young BBC producer searching for talent to appear in a forthcoming TV satire series.

The daughters were the subject of a song, " The Mitford Sisters ", by Luke Haines and a musical, The Mitford Girls, by Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin.

Adapted from the stage show about the flamboyant conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, written by Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin.

In 1970, he appeared in short-lived West End of London musical, Sing a Rude Song written by Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin that same year.

Ned Sherrin, producer of the satirical BBC television programme That Was The Week That Was, hired David Frost as its presenter after reading a favourable review of Frost's London comedy cabaret show in The Stage.

On the radio, she has been a regular contributor to Radio 4's Saturday miscellany Loose Ends, hosted originally by the late Ned Sherrin, now by Clive Anderson.

She began her television career as a clerk in the programme planning department, then obtained her first production job working as a researcher on the BBC One late-night satire programme, BBC3 ( 1965 – 66 ), created by Ned Sherrin.

Born in a farming family at Low Ham in the Somerset Levels, Sherrin attended Sexey's School, in Bruton, Somerset.

Sherrin joined the BBC in 1957 as a temporary production assistant, then began working for them as a producer in " Television Talks " in 1963.

Sherrin produced and directed numerous theatre productions in London's West End, including Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell and the landmark musical 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.

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.

These market buildings were designed by George Sherrin for the last private owner of the fruit and vegetable market, Robert Horner and built between 1885 and 1893.

But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.

She was awarded the Professional Handlers' Ass'ns' Leonard Brumby, Sr. Memorial Trophy ( named for the founder-originator of the Junior Classes.

In this third year at the university, Hans, in 1797, was awarded the first important token of recognition, a gold medal for his essay on `` Limits Of Poetry And Prose ''.

He completed his training in pharmacy also, taking his degree with high honors in 1797, and in 1799 was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy along with a prize for an essay in medicine.

The sound discoveries of this quixotic genius were so diluted by those of fantasy that the prize was never awarded to him.

Five years later, he was awarded the university's degree in law.

Milton and Rosella Lovett of Cranston were awarded $55,000 damages from the state in Superior Court yesterday for industrial property which they owned at 83 Atwells Ave., Providence, and which was condemned for use in construction of Interstate Route 95.

Mrs. Alice H. Reese, wife of an engineer and mother of a 23-year-old son, was awarded the top prize at a luncheon in the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

He was awarded a fellowship to continue his studies in Tokyo and he packed up his clothes, the biwa upon which he had been practicing and his image of Acala, and left to spend a week at home before leaving the country.

The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh.

Connes was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982, the Crafoord Prize in 2001 and the gold medal of the CNRS in 2004.

Bertha von Suttner was awarded the 1905 Nobel Peace prize, ' for her sincere peace activities '.

Camus was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature " for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times ".< ref >

In 1970, he tied for fourth place at an international tournament in Caracas, Venezuela, and was awarded the grandmaster title.

Alexis Carrel ( June 28, 1873 – November 5, 1944 ) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques.

While there he collaborated with American physician Charles Claude Guthrie in work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood vessels and organs as well as the head, and Carrel was awarded the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for these efforts.

In the 1990s, given Australia's long dominance of the Ashes and the popular acceptance of the Darnley urn as ‘ The Ashes ’, the idea was mooted that the victorious team should be awarded the urn as a trophy and allowed to retain it until the next series.

He is frequently cited as the inventor of the airliner and was awarded several of the first air mail contracts, which he ultimately could not fulfill.

In 1137 Conrad III, the Hohenstaufen King of the Germans, deprived Albert's cousin and nemesis, Henry the Proud of his Saxon duchy, which was awarded to Albert if he could take it.

The International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen was awarded in the year 2000 to the President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for his special personal contribution to cooperation with the states of Europe, for the preservation of peace, freedom, democracy and human rights in Europe, and for his support of the enlargement of the European Union.

In 2003 the medal was awarded to Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing.

In 2004, Pope John Paul II's efforts to unite Europe were honoured with an ‘ Extraordinary Charlemagne Medal ’, which was awarded for the first time ever.

* Fleming was awarded the Hunterian Professorship by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

One side-effect of the timing is that, as Alan was awarded a knighthood a few months before the divorce, both his first and second wife are entitled to take the title of Lady Ayckbourn.