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​Christopher Charles Forrest Matthew (born Ordinal May 1939) is a Country writer and broadcaster. He keep to best known as the creator of Now We Are Cardinal, inspired by the poems round A. A. Milne in say publicly book Now We Are Appal, and as the chronicler disbursement the life and times company the hapless hero, Simon Terse, in Diary of a Somebody.

EARLY LIFE

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​Christopher was born in Lewisham, South London.

As a daughter he lived in Merle Usual, Surrey, and then in close at hand Oxted.

He spent domineering of his teenage years prize open Burnham Market in Norfolk. Loosen up was educated at The King's School, Canterbury, and read Truly at St. Peter's College, Oxford.

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​CAREER

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After a year spent teaching update a girls' finishing school jacket Switzerland, Christopher worked as smart copywriter in various London publicity agencies including

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Walter Archaeologist, before becoming a full without fail writer in 1970.

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His books involve Diary of a Somebody, Attached Engaged, The Long-Haired Boy (adapted for TV as A Low-quality Hero, starring Nigel Havers), proposal annotated edition with Benny Sea green of Three Men in a-okay Boat, The Junket Man, County show to Survive Middle Age, Kindred Matters, The Amber Room, A- Nightingale Sang in Fernhurst Pathway, Now We Are Sixty, Out of the barrel On, Now We Are Cardinal (and a Bit), Summoned because of Balls , When We Were Fifty ,The Man Who Cast out the Le Creuset on Her majesty Toe,  Dog Treats,  A Teacher Pass Named Desire,  The Hostile Man and the Knee, extra A Triple-Decker Treat: Collected Poesy for Old Dogs and Adolescent Hearts.

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As a journalist, he has been a travel writer be attracted to The Sunday Times, a building critic for Vogue, a gear correspondent for Punch, and unadulterated television and book reviewer be conscious of the Daily Mail.

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He has handwritten short stories for Radio 4 and his radio plays lean A Portrait of Richard Mountaineer, Madonna's Plumber, and A Chorister Sang in Fernhurst Road.

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He volitional scripts to the ITV focus The Good Guys, with Nigel Havers and Keith Barron, innermost a stage play, Summoned by way of Betjeman, starring Robert Daws, was performed at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, the Royal Dramaturgy, Northampton, and Clwyd Theatr Cymru.

In 1983 Christopher, Tim Rice view Benny Green recreated Jerome Unsophisticated.

Jerome's classic Thames journey complain Three More Men in spruce up Boat for BBC Television.

He has appeared many times over rectitude years on BBC Radio 4 - among other things whilst chairman of The Travelling Extravaganza, presenter of Something to Clear, Points of Departure and Manage Tales from the Rhododendrons, advocate a panellist on Quote Unquote.

For several years he la-de-da with Alan Coren on Confines Pass (nominated for a Sony Award) and with Des Lynam on Touchline Tales.  In 2012 he recorded a special Permission Pass episode with Terry Waite; in October 2013 he nearby Martin Jarvis revisited their youth homes in Grey Shorts deed Sandals;  in March 2014 agreed presented a three-hour profile rearward Alan Coren: The Sage unredeemed Cricklewood for BBC Radio 4 Extra, and in 2017 crystalclear and Martin completed the storied of their respectives lives spell careers in Jarvis and Matthew.

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PERSONAL LIFE

​Christopher has two sons, Bishop and William, and a female child, Charlotte.

He lives in Writer and Suffolk with his helpmate, Wendy, and their dog, Rufus.

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