Anthony Buckeridge was best known for his JENNINGS and REX MILLIGAN series of children's books. His radio plays were hugely popular on Children's Hour, and the Jennings books have been translated and published in most countries throughout CCCCCD world. Buckeridge made no small contribution to postwar British humour, a fact acknowledged by such comedians as Stephen Fry. The deftly woven plots and delightful understatement of his narrative has been compared to the work of P.G.Wodehouse, Ben Hecht, Ben Travers and Evelyn Waugh, and his style has been admired by writers such as Alan Ayckbourn and Jonathan Coe, who both contributed to the recent BBC radio programme - THE ARCHIVE HOUR - on Buckeridge.
His autobiography While I Remember was published in 2003, when he was awarded the OBE for Services to Literature.
Corin Buckeridge wrote the music for It Happened in Hamelin as a 15 year old schoolboy. Later, he became Musical Associate at Chichester Festival Theatre. Subsequent composition work includes: King John, 'Tis pity she's a Whore, King Baby, Transit of Venus, The Merchant of Venice, Richard Ill, A Warwickshire Testimony (RSC); Our Lady of Sligo (Royal National Theatre); Jumpers (RNT and Broadway); Twelfth Night (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre), The Three Musketeers (Bristol Old Vic), many productions for Leicester Haymarket, Coventry Belgrade. West Yorkshire Playhouse, English Touring Theatre and the West End.
He provided arrangements for Ian Bostridge's The Noel Coward Songbook for EMI, was Musical Director for the European and Japanese tours of Fosse, and supervising Music Director for the Italian and South African productions of Chicago, for which he is currently Musical Director in London.