Tony Sarchet
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Tony Sarchet is a British television and radio writer for alternative comedy shows.
He started his career writing for hit shows including Three of a kind and Spitting Image, and for comedians such as Lenny Henry and Jasper Carrott.
In 1984 his BBC Radio 4 satire Delve Special begun, a comedic parody of Roger Cook's investigative journalism series 'Checkpoint'. This time starring Stephen Fry as investigative journalist David Lander. When Roger Cook moved to television, so did his parody, in the Tony Sarchet written series This is David Lander and This is David Harper (this last series with Tony Slattery in the main role).
Sarchet has went on to write the Screen One TV film 'Trust Me' starring Alfred Molina and in 2001 the London Weekend Television sitcom 'High Stakes' with Richard Wilson.
He studied chemistry at University College Oxford and is married to the writer Andrea Solomons.
