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Revision as of 07:36, 6 January 2014
Ted Kavanagh (1892, New Zealand – 1958) was a British radio scriptwriter and producer.
Initially a medical student in Edinburgh, Kavanagh switched to a career as a writer. Best remembered as the writer of the immensely popular It's That Man Again (ITMA) comedy series which ran for a decade from 1939, it was intentionally devised by Kavanagh, producer Francis Worsley and the comedian Tommy Handley as Handley's specific vehicle; Kavanagh had been writing for him since 1924.
Kavanagh's biography of Handley was published in 1949, the year of the comedian's death and the end of their radio show. A prolific writer, ITMA and his work for Handley constituted only a small proportion of his total oeuvre.
His son is the poet P. J. Kavanagh.
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