Jonathan Myerson
British writer
Jonathan Myerson (born 12 January 1960 in Cardiff, Wales) is a British dramatist and novelist, writing principally for television and radio. His partner is novelist Julie Myerson.
Early life
Myerson's great-grandfather, Carnovsky, was an ex-Russian asylum seeker, who arrived, in 1883 and spoke only Yiddish. Myerson's grandfather's family arrived from Johannesburg in the mid-nineteen-twenties. Myerson's mother (née Lavis) arrived from Australia just after WW2. Myerson's father died in 1986. Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain deems him Jewish.
Career
Myerson's first play Making a Difference was commissioned by the Oxford Playhouse Company. A subsequent work, Diary of a Nobody was written for the National Theatre.
His audio work for BBC Radio 4 includes Number 10, a five-part series about a fictional Prime Minister and his staff in Downing Street, including an episode in which Saint Helena is invaded by Angola; That was Then, which was broadcast in five parts as BBC Radio Four's 15 Minute Drama in 2017; The Republicans, a suite of six plays about recent US presidents in 2018; and Nuremberg: The Trial of the Nazi War Criminals, which was broadcast in 16 parts in 2021 The Way We Live Right Now, a BBC Radio Four adaptation in 15 episodes of twelve minutes of the Anthony Trollope novel The Way We Live Now, re-setting it in the present day.
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