Jeremy Howe | |
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| Born | Jeremy Howe |
| Occupation | Editor ofThe Archers |
| Notable work | Commissioning over 300 titles per year onBBC Radio.[1] |
Jeremy Howe is a Britishradio drama editor who has been the editor of long-running radio dramaThe Archers for theBBC since 2018. From 2008, Howe was previouslyBBC Radio 4's commissioning editor for drama and fiction.[2]
He was educated atDulwich College[3][failed verification] and then studied at theUniversity of Oxford, worked as a theatre director from 1981-1986 atYork Theatre Royal, TheMercury Theatre, Colchester,Nottingham Playhouse and theLyric Theatre, Belfast before joiningBBC Northern Ireland as a producer of radio drama in 1986. From 1989 to 1991 he was an assistant commissioning editor atChannel 4, where he was in charge of development ofFilm4. He returned to radio and was managing editor for the drama onBBC Radio 3 before moving back into television as an executive producer forBBC Two 10x10 new directors strand where he commissioned work byJoe Wright,Sarah Gavron,Andrea Arnold,Debbie Isitt,Ian Iqbal Rashid and others, as well as producing documentaries and single dramas likeThe Falklands Play andThis Little Life.[citation needed]
In 2011 he published a memoir -Mummydaddy - about bringing up his two daughters singlehandedly after the 1992 murder of his first wife, the academic Dr Elizabeth Howe, author ofThe First English Actresses.[4]
He is now married to the writer and movie producerJennifer Howarth, whose producing credits includeDistant Voices, Still Lives,On the Black Hill andBlame It on the Bellboy.
Gwyneth Williams, controller of BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra said: “Jeremy has made an outstanding contribution over many years as Radio 4’s Drama Commissioning Editor.”[5]
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