Jeremy has starred in many television
series (Wish Me Luck, The Good Companions, The Pickwick
Papers, Birds Of A Feather and Outside Edge to name but
five) as well as successfully terminating Crossroads after 23 years.
His extensive stage experience includes leading
roles in national tours of Relatively Speaking, Beyond The Fringe,
An Ideal Husband and Canaries Sometimes Sing. His one-man
show, an adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome's Three
Men In A Boat, ran for four months in the West End, was nominated for
an Olivier Award and filmed for Channel 4.
Well known to radio listeners, Jeremy has been the regular presenter of The Tingle Factor and Personal Records (on Radio 4) and The Shellac Show and In Tune on Radio 3. He has written and presented countless features and series over the years on a wide variety of subjects and in 1996 won a Sony Gold Award for his portrait of England Green and Pleasant Land (Radio 2). In August 2000, Radio 4 broadcast his dramatisation of Keble Howard's comic novel The Fast Gentleman.
As a musician, Jeremy has composed the music for four major television productions, one musical (Sarah B. Divine) and many stage plays, including the British premiere of Tennessee Williams' Vieux Carré. He wrote the lyrics and music of over 150 songs for Radio 4's Stop The Week, many of which feature in his one-man entertainment Funny You Should Sing That - the title, also, of the album of his songs.
Among Jeremy's other published works are a suite for brass band, a book of comic verse (Raspberries and Other Trifles), the biography of pianist Leopold Godowsky, The Beginner's Guide To Opera - to accompany a Channel 4 series - and Victorian Curiosities (a collection of bizarre and trivial facts). His last two books have been written for Classic FM - The Classic FM Guide to Classical Music (1996) and The Classic FM Good Music Guide (1999).
Jeremy is a regular contributor to Classic FM Magazine, Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine and International Piano. He is President of the Jerome K. Jerome Society and Director of Music for The Deanery Church of St Mary's, Bocking. He lives in rural Essex with his wife Jill and daughter Rosie.
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