Dimensions
161 x 242 x 34mm
Born two days before Pearl Harbor, Sheridan Morley grew up in the Thames Valley with his father Robert, his grandmother Gladys Cooper, and several hundred other relatives.
With them he travelled to New York, where he fell in love with Broadway; to California, where he fell in love with Hollywood and met Greta Garbo; and to Australia, where he fell in love with Australia.
After school and Oxford University, Sheridan joined ITN with one of the first general traineeships - which involved covering two elections, the Churchill funeral and standing in a field with one cow to announce that here one day would be a place called Milton Keyes.
Seven happy years with Joan Bakewell on BBC2's 'Late Night Line Up' proved the theory that television broadcasting is best if you pretend you are only being seen by two people, which they often were in the early days. From there Sheridan moved to 'The Times', and then became Arts Editor on Alan Coren's 'Punch' for the next decade.
Since then he has enjoyed life as a freelance drama critic, including twenty-five years at the 'International Herald Tribune' and on BBC radio arts programmes, including his own 'Sheridan Morely Arts Programme'. He also wrote the first authorised biographies of Noel Coward, David Niven and John Gielgud, as well as many other theatre lives.
Here Sheridan tells the story of his life in his own inimitable style: two marriages, three children, two grandchildren, one major nervous breakdown and life as a critical condition. He includes his late-life career as a television actor and stage director, plus a lifetime of daytime panel gameshows: 'Call My Bluff', 'Going For A Song' and 'Countdown'.
For the first and possibly the last time, Sheridan Morley gets to review himself and look back over sixty years in all branches of show business.
