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EP 075 Bennett Arron: an Award-Winning Writer, Comedian, Author and Radio & TV Presenter. He is also one of the first major victims of Identity Theft in the UK
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Bennett Arron – Biog
Bennett Arron is an Award-Winning Writer, Comedian, Author and Radio & TV Presenter. He is also one of the first major victims of Identity Theft in the UK.
As a Comedian, Bennett wrote and starred in the Radio Series Bennett Arron Worries Aboutand Bennett Arron is Jewelsh – both of which were nominated for a Celtic Media Awards. He supported Ricky Gervais on some of his tour dates and he recently starred in all four series of the Radio 4 Series ALONE.
As well as performing as a Comedian he has also spoken at many Conferences around the world on the subject of Fraud, ID Theft and Data Protection. He was the Guest Speaker at TheInternational Fraud Convention in Italy, The International Congress On Anti-Fraud & Anti-Corruption in Poland and Infosec, Europe. He was also the Opening Keynote Speaker at Auscert in Queensland, Australia
Bennett has had over 30 sitcom scripts produced on TV and Radio. He wrote on the BAFTA-winning Graham Norton Show as well as the BAFTA-winning children’s sitcom The Slammer.
Bennett presented the BBC documentary The Kosher Comedian in which he traced his family’s roots from Lithuania to South Wales. He also directed and presented the Channel 4 documentary How To Steal An Identity in which he stole the identity of the Home Secretary. The programme was Pick of the Day in The Guardian and The Telegraph, described as “Fascinating and Disturbing” by the TV Times, and Bennett was short-listed for a BAFTA.
He has written two books: the memoir Heard The One About Identity Theft? and the romantic comedy novel The Girl From The Discotheque.
Bennett is a past winner of both the TAPS Comedy Writer of the Year Award and the BBC New Writer's Award and is a past finalist of the BBC New Comedy Awards.However his proudest moment was coming third in an International Disco Dancing Championship in Tenerife.
Bennett has been called; “Genuinely Original and Funny” by The Times “Hilarious...razor sharp” by The Standard, and “A Welsh Seinfeld” by The Guardian.
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