Gareth Edwards

Gareth Edwards born 1965 is a radio and television producer and writer He is the greatgrandson of Hollywood pioneer Albert E Smith founder of Vitagraph Studios He has worked on a number of radio and TV programmes including Comedy Firsts ITV 1995 The Big Town All Stars BBC Radio 4 1998 Spaced Channel 4 1999 The Bigger Issues BBC Radio 4 2000 Parsons and Naylors PullOut Sections BBC Radio 2 2001 Dead Ringers BBC Two 2003 2004 Posh Nosh BBC Two 2003 Vent BBC Radio 4 200609 Edwards produced That Mitchell and Webb Sound BBC Radio 4 200309 which won a Sony Silver Award in 2004 he also produced the TV version of this starring the same David Mitchell and Robert Webb entitled That Mitchell and Webb Look BBC Two 200610 which won best comedy BAFTA in 2006 Edwards also produced The One Ronnie BBC One 2010 a oneoff comedy television sketch show that aired on BBC One on Christmas Day 2010 to celebrate the 80th birthday of Ronnie Corbett and Still Open All Hours BBC One Boxing Day 2013 He also produced the BBC2 sitcom Upstart Crow 2016 He has also produced Bleak Expectations BBC Radio 4 200711 the cult radio show starring Anthony Head and the TV spinoff from this The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff BBC Two 2011 Gareth Edwards also produced the shortlived radio comedy series The Airport BBC Radio 4 1995 which was the first radio comedy series in Britain to feature selfrepresentative experiences of black people Edwards executiveproduced the second series of Tracey Ullmans Show 2017 which led to the spinoff series Tracey Breaks the News 2017present Edwards was appointed acting head of radio comedy at the BBC from November 2008 to May 2009 though announced subsequently that he was returning to producing and writing Edwards wrote two series of Radio 4s situation comedy Artists set in St Ives Cornwall Edwards also writes childrens books including The Big Animal MixUp Hachette 2011 The Big Jungle MixUp Hachette 2012 The Disgusting Sandwich Scholastic 2013 The Littlest Bird Piccadilly 2013 Never Ask A Dinosaur to Dinner Scholastic 2014 and Fabulous Pie Scholastic 2015 shortlisted for the FCBG award 2016