Is That You Maureen? My Life Making Children's TV & Beyond

“Memoirs are always memorable for the writer — but the writer hopes that their memoirs will be memorable to the reader, too…”

So Jeremy Swan says, among a thousand other things. Besides directing and producing such BBC children’s TV classics as Jackanory, Rentaghost, Grandad, Round the Twist and Sooty, Jeremy works as a playwright, a painter and a raconteur.

He doesn’t so much drop names as hurl them from a great height with a resounding
crash. Everyone from Kenneth Williams to Elizabeth Taylor to Elaine Stritch. And of course, there’s always the nagging question… is he getting paid for this? No, he does it for love… but try him!

Is That You, Maureen? is illustrated with Jeremy’s original artwork, along with dozens of rare and unseen photographs from his life and career. The book includes a foreword by Christopher Biggins and an afterword by Anna Home OBE, former head of BBC Children’s Programmes.

“Jeremy is one of the funniest men I have ever had the pleasure of working with.
A book as funny — if not funnier — than him…” Christopher Biggins

"I have not stopped laughing out loud while reading… it's a classic piece of storytelling." Baroness Floella Benjamin

Softcover: 156mm x 244 format; 200 pages in black and white, plus 20-page photo insert in black and white and colour.