Edward Taylor, the well-known radio producer and playwright, was born in 1931 in Thorpe Bay, Essex, England. After attending Southend High School, he served in the Royal Air Force for two years. Later, while a student at Cambridge University, he wrote for the university newspaper and participated in amateur dramatics.

During this period his play BETWEEN THE LINES, performed at London’s Scala Theatre, became so successful that he was offered a job as writer and producer at the BBC where he worked for the next 36 years. Among the 2,300 radio programmes he wrote for the BBC, his best known was “The Men from the Ministry”, which was broadcast between 1962 and 1980, and which included 144 episodes. The programme was also produced in Finland, Sweden and South Africa.

Edward Taylor has written success- fully for the theatre as well. His stage thriller MURDER BY MISADVENTURE, after enjoying a long run in London’s West End, has been performed in theatres all over the world. In addition to NO DINNER FOR SINNERS (produced at The English Theatre of Hamburg in the 2015-2016 Season) his other plays include PARDON ME, PRIME MINISTER, PORTRAIT OF FEAR, A RISE IN THE MARKET and DIE LAUGHING. 

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