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Article: Ned ties up his loose ends Ned ties up his loose ends.(Book Review)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- September 9, 2005
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Byline: MARCUS BERKMANN
NED SHERRIN: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY (Little, Brown, [pounds sterling]18.99) Critic's choice
CAREERS in showbiz don't come much longer or more garlanded in glory than Ned Sherrin's.
He has been around apparently for ever, producing, directing, devising, narrating and, since 1988, subtly shepherding the disparate contributors to Radio 4's Loose Ends through their paces every Saturday.
Sherrin is a Somerset lad, as you can't tell at all from his accent; father was a farmer and a 'country character', sheep were in his blood.
But when young Ned collected hundreds more flowers than anyone else in his infants' ...