Profile: Terry Ravenscroft

About This Author

I was born in 1938 in the small town New Mills in the Peak District of Derbyshire, England. My mother had a particularly long and difficult delivery, largely because she'd forgotten to take off her tights. My parents decided to share equally the responsibility of bringing me up. I proved to be a difficult baby, often throwing tantrums and crying for long spells, especially when it was my father's day to breast feed me. Eventually I grew out of this and at the age of five started my formal education. I was a bright child as my mother had painted my head with luminous paint so she could pick me out easily when she came to collect me from school. When I grew up I became a comedy writer and have written television scripts for most of Britain’s top comedy acts including, amongst others, Les Dawson, The Two Ronnies, Morecambe and Wise, Alas Smith and Jones and Not the Nine-o-clock News. I also wrote many episodes of the situation comedy Terry and June and my own radio series Star Terk Two. I now write humorous books, sixteen up to now and counting.