Simon Rose (born 14 October 1957 in Abingdon, Oxon, growing up in Newcastle-upon-Tyne) A former BBC Radio researcher for BBC Light Entertainment programmes including ''Weekending'', ''The News Quiz'', ''News Huddlines'' and ''Not the Nine O' Clock News,'' Rose worked as a financial journalist for the BBC and others. He later became a film journalist reviewing for the Daily Mirror for four years.
After three years as spokesman for the pressure group Save Our Savers, he became a presenter on the national business radio statio
Share Radio
He developed and shared screenwriting and executive producer credits for
The Flying Scotsman, a small British film which opened the
60th International Edinburgh Film Festival 2006 and received 5 Scottish BAFTA nominations.
He has written a range of 14 books including
Complete and Utter Zebu' with Steve Caplin, which examines the deceptions and corruptions that the media, politicians and corporations apply to everyone's daily life and Dad Stuff, a guide for families to entertain young children.
A secular Jew with three children,
[ ] he lives in
Southfields
Southfields is a district of inner London located within the London Borough of Wandsworth, England, 5.6 miles (9 km) south-west of Charing Cross. Southfields is mainly residential, historically a part of Wandsworth itself, and is divided b ...
and has contributed to many publications.
References
External links
Simon Rose's work infoComplete and Utter ZebuFun and Games for the 21st Century
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1957 births
Living people
British male screenwriters
English writers
English secular Jews
English male journalists
Writers from Newcastle upon Tyne
Jewish English writers