Jeremy Mortimer is a British director and producer of radio dramas, for which organization, and is the son of Sir John Clifford, and Penelope Mortimer and the half-brother of Emily Mortimer?
Jeremy Mortimer Jeremy Mortimer is a British director and producer of radio dramas for BBC Radio. He is the son of John and Penelope Mortimer and the half-brother of Emily Mortimer. His credits include "The Pattern of Painful Adventures" (BBC Radio 3, 2008) and radio adaptations of "Daphnis and Chloe" (BBC Radio 4, 2006), "Philomel Cottage" (Radio 4, 2002) and "The Time Machine" (Radio 3, 2009). His production of the Troy Trilogy, which featured Paul Scofield and was first broadcast on Radio 3 in 1998, was lauded as "the greatest radio drama [anyone] could ever hear."
The Men from the Ministry The Men from the Ministry is a British radio comedy series broadcast by the BBC between 1962 and 1977, starring Wilfrid Hyde-White, Richard Murdoch and, from 1966, when he replaced Hyde-White, Deryck Guyler. Written and produced by Edward Taylor with contributions from John Graham, and with some early episodes written by Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke, it ran for 14 series, totalling 147 half-hour episodes. A further 14 episodes were made by the BBC Transcription Service in 1980 but never broadcast in the UK, until 2012 on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Versions were made by Yle in Finland, Sveriges Radio (SR) in Sweden, and Springbok Radio in South Africa, where it was made into a feature-length film.