By Jack Rosenthal: An Autobiography in Six Acts - Hardcover

Jack Rosenthal was born in 1931 in Manchester to a Jewish family. After attending Colne Grammar School he read English Language and Literature at Sheffield University, and then trained as an eavesdropper on Russian radio transmissions whilst on national service in the Royal Navy. His first job in television was in the promotional department at Granada, where he later wrote for 'Coronation Street.' In a career of over 40 years of writing for television, cinema and the theatre, Jack has been associated with some of Britain's best-loved, longest-running, and critically acclaimed entertainment. As a writer, producer, lecturer on screenwriting, commissioner of such hits as 'London's Burning' and 'That Was The Week That Was', documentary maker and playwright Jack was honoured in 1994 with a CBE. He is married to Maureen Lipman and lives in London N10.

"'Television's Charles Dickens, inexhaustible, ever inventive.' - 'Guardian'"