Bennett Arron is a

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writer and

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Background

Born in Port Talbot to a Jewish family, Bennett Arron is an Award-Winning Writer, Comedian, Actor, Author and a BAFTA shortlisted Director and Presenter. He moved to London to attend the drama school, the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts. After leaving drama school he formed the sketch group 4-Ply and toured venues around the country, appearing at the

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Career

In 1997 Arron was a finalist of the '' BBC New Comedy Awards'', alongside Peter Kay. He is a past winner of the ''BBC Wales New Writer's Award'' and the ''TAPS Comedy Writer of The Year Award''. He has written and starred in the BBC Radio series ''Bennett Arron is JeWelsh'' and ''Bennett Arron Worries About...'', both of which were nominated for a Celtic Media Award. He presented the BBC Television Documentary ''The Kosher Comedian'' in which he traced his family's roots from Lithuania to South Wales and described a reason for the decline of Jews in Wales. In 2007, he wrote, directed and presented the documentary ''How Not to Lose Your Identity'' for Channel 4 which was based on his own experience of identity fraud. In the programme he proved how easy it is to carry out the crime by dumpster diving and

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. He even went as far as setting up a stall at a shopping centre, supposedly selling identity theft insurance, but was, in fact, scamming people into revealing all their identity information. He also stole the identity of the then Home Secretary, Charles Clarke and was subsequently arrested. Bennett wrote a memoir of his experience ''Heard the One About Identity Theft?'' Bennett also wrote the romantic comedy novel ''The Girl From The Discotheque'' which was described as "Funny from beginning to end" by

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and "A touching, funny, page-turning book about what the heart wants – no matter how irrational. This is romance and comedy with a bruised heart" by Tony Parsons. Bennett has written comedy material for Hale and Pace, Freddie Starr, '' The Real McCoy'', Large, Stop the World, No Limit, ''The Varrell and Decker Show'', ''Samstag Nacht'', ''The April Hailer Show'', '' The 11 O'Clock Show'', '' Commercial Breakdown'', '' RI:SE'', '' V Graham Norton'' and Jack Whitehall's ''Hit the Road Jack''. Bennett currently plays the part of Morris in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom ''

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''. which is now in its 4th series He has also written for situation comedies, including '' Ed Stone is Dead'' (starring Richard Blackwood) and '' Sam's Game'' (starring Davina McCall and Ed Byrne). He was also one of the main writers on two children's series; ''

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'' (BBC One) and '' Genie in the House'' (the highest rated programme on Nickelodeon.) He also wrote several episodes for the children's sitcom ''Which Is Witch?'' As a stand-up comedian, Bennett has performed at every major venue in the UK as well as performing in the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Poland and Australia. Bennett recently supported

on some of his tour dates. Most recently Bennett was a presenter on BBC Three Counties Radio and he presented the

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Radio Documentary ''Bennett Arron's Cymru Knish'' He has been described as "Genuinely Original and Funny" by The Times and "One of the best on the Circuit..... a Welsh Seinfeld" by The Guardian.

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