After Dinner Speakers: Sheridan Morley, Megadeth, Samuel Brittan

Author, journalist and broadcaster Sheridan Morley has presented the Radio 2 Arts Programme since April 1990. During the mid-60s he was a newscaster, reporter and scriptwriter for Independent Television News, and joined the BBC to present Late Night Line-Up from 1967 to 1975 on BBC 2. He has also been a regular presenter of Kaleidoscope on BBC Radio 4 and Meridian for BBC World Service, and presented Sheridan Morley Meets... on BBC Television. In 1989, Sheridan was the BP Arts Journalist Of The Year. Sheridan is a former Deputy Features Editor, Arts Diarist and TV Critic of The Times, and has also worked for Punch magazine as its Arts Editor and Drama Critic. His publications include:'A Talent To Amuse - The Life Of Noel Coward', 'The Stephen Sondheim Songbook', 'The Noel Coward Diaries', 'Tales From The Raj' and 'The Theatregoers Quiz Book'. He writes for many newspapers, including The Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The London Evening Standard and Playbill (New York). He has been the London drama critic for the International Herald Tribune since 1979 and for The Spectator since 1990.