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SNAZZMEDIA (UK) Ltd Established in 1998 by television producer/director BARRY CAWTHERAY who has worked for most of the major British broadcasters: BBC (radio and TV), ATV, Rediffusion, Granada TV, LWT, STV, Yorkshire Television and overseas networks including NHK (Japan) Sveriges TV (Sweden) ABC/Westinghouse, (USA)


Specialising in entertainment production - with artists ranging from Paul Robeson and Groucho Marx to The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix and series including "Ready Steady Go" and "Sunday Night at the London Palladium" he's directed a music documentary featuring Scott Walker (shot in Japan and the Far East) and an acclaimed Dionne Warwick/Burt Bacharach Special for London's Rediffusion TV plus producing 26 editions of the multi award winning musical series "Stars & Garters" with artists as diverse as Bud Flanagan and Jessie Matthews, Dusty Springfield and Joe Cocker (in his first TV appearance).

Among shows for Yorkshire Television, he was the producer of a Royal Gala hosted by Bob Monkhouse and producer and film director of a Tony Hatch/Jackie Trent musical with Petula Clark, Matt Monro and Scott Walker. Also for ITV, he created and was Series Editor on the pioneering factual entertainment series "The Video Age" whose studio guests included Billy Connolly and Jeremy Irons.

Following his association with many of the UK's major pop/rock stars of the "Swinging Sixties" (on shows like "Ready Steady Go") Barry became Programme Consultant, casting chart topping British artists on the legendary US "Steve Allen Show" broadcast coast to coast from the Hollywood Playhouse, before returning to the UK to become Director of Programmes for Britain's first Cable Channel, on which Dame Sybil Thorndike made her last screen appearance and Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music, their TV debut.

Theatre work includes devising and directing "Opera Cabaret" in San Francisco, with a cast led by Leontyne Price, staging The British Song Festival, at The Dome, Brighton, and a New Year Jazz Concert at London's Royal Albert Hall, with Humphrey Lyttelton, George Melly, Acker Bilk et al,
adapting and directing the comedy "Heroic Failures" starring fabled ITN Newscaster Reginald Bosanquet, writing and directing Hinge and Bracket's long running musical spoof "Loyal Tribute" (London and National Tour)
and staging music gigs at Wembley Arena (with The Rolling Stones) and at the West End's Lyceum and Prince of Wales Theatres.


Now based in Barcelona, Barry is Creative Director of Snazzmedia (Spain) and with Executive Producer Brian Smith, currently working on


"BARBARA COOK - A CELEBRATION" (pictured)

and

"THE CRIB" - featuring the Christmas music of JOHN RUTTER.




CONTACT: info@snazzmedia.com