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Name
  
Matthew Sweet

Role
  
Writer


Education
  
University of Oxford

Movies
  
Silent Britain

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Books
  
Inventing the Victorians, Shepperton Babylon

Profiles

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Matthew Sweet (born 2 December 1969) is an English writer, journalist, and BBC broadcaster.

Contents

Born in Hull, Sweet received a doctorate from Oxford University on the sensation fiction of the 19th century, Wilkie Collins in particular. He was among the contributors to the Oxford Companion to English Literature and was both film and television critic for the Independent on Sunday.

Sweet's book, Shepperton Babylon: The Lost Worlds of British Cinema (2005) is a history of the British film business from the silent days, and includes interviews with surviving figures from the period. A television documentary series was adapted from the book)

Sweet has written other television films and series, including Silent Britain, Checking into History, British Film Forever, The Rules of Film Noir and A Brief History of Fun, as well as several Doctor Who audio plays and short stories. The presenter of a BBC Radio 4 programme The Philosopher's Arms, it is a show recorded in front of a live audience in which classic philosophical issues are explored. He is the host of the BBC Radio 3 programme Sound of Cinema about film scores and their composers. and a regular presenter of Night Waves on the same network.

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Audio dramas

  • Doctor Who: Year of the Pig
  • Doctor Who: The Magic Mousetrap
  • Bernice Summerfield: The Diet of Worms
  • Jago and Litefoot: The Man at the End of the Garden
  • Jago and Litefoot: The Lonely Clock
  • The Voyages of Jago & Litefoot: Voyage to the New World
  • Jago and Litefoot: Return of the Repressed
  • Jago and Litefoot: Maurice
  • Short stories

  • "The Lampblack Wars" - Short Trips: The History of Christmas
  • "The Earwig Archipelago" - Short Trips: Time Signature
  • References

    Matthew Sweet (writer) Wikipedia