Ted Kavanagh 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

It's That Man Again

It's That Man Again was a BBC radio comedy programme which ran from 1939 to 1949. The title was a contemporary phrase referring to ever more frequent news-stories about Hitler in the lead-up to World War II, and specifically a headline in the Daily Express written by Bert Gunn...

(ITMA) comedy series of the 1940s, it was intentionally devised by Kavanagh, producer Francis Worsley

Francis Worsley

Francis Worsley was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who played first-class cricket for Glamorgan...

 and the comedian Tommy Handley

Tommy Handley

Thomas Reginald "Tommy" Handley was a British comedian, mainly known for the BBC radio programme ITMA . He was born at Toxteth Park, Liverpool in Lancashire....

 as Handley's specific vehicle; Kavanagh had been writing for him since 1924. Kavanagh also wrote a biography of Handley, published in 1949. 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

P. J. Kavanagh

Patrick J. Kavanagh is an English poet, lecturer, actor and broadcaster. His father was the ITMA scriptwriter, Ted Kavanagh.He fought in the Korean War, being evacuated as result of his injuries....

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