vetting from MI5 which rejected Battersby because of his membership of the Trotskyist Workers Revolutionary Party. While working for the BBC, Peter Nichols was another dramatist with whom Morahan had a successful partnership, but another project with John Hopkins, the six-part play cycle Fathers and Families (1977), was a major disappointment. Later career Morahan joined the National Theatre in 1977 as Deputy Director and was appointed Co-Director of the Olivier Theatre. He was involved in creating the 14-part television drama The Jewel in the Crown (1984), of which he was co-director and producer. The series won a Primetime Emmy Award and a BAFTA TV Award in 1985. The film Clockwise (1986), with John Cleese in the lead, was a minor hit. Personal life and honours Morahan's first wife was Joan Lucie Murray (d. 1973), with whom he had two sons, including director Andy Morahan; a daughter from the marriage predeceased him. After his first wife died, Morahan married actress Anna Carteret; the couple have two daughters: theatre director Rebecca, also involved in human rights activism, and actress Hattie Morahan. Morahan was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to drama. Morahan died on 7 April 2017, the same day as Tim Pigott-Smith, one of the leads in The Jewel in the Crown. Selected directing credits Television The Road (First Night, 1963) Fable (The Wednesday Play, 1965) Talking to a Stranger (BBC 1966) Lay Down Your Arms (ITV Sunday Night Theatre, 1970) Uncle Vanya (Play of the Month, BBC, 1970) Old Times Fathers and Families (BBC series, 1977) The Jewel in the Crown (Granada 1984, three episodes, also producer) In the Secret State (1985) After Pilkington (BBC, 1987) The Heat of the Day (1989) Ashenden (1991) Unnatural Pursuits (Simon Gray two-part play, 1992) A Dance to the Music of Time''' (four-part mini-series 1997) FilmDiamonds for Breakfast (1968)All Neat in Black Stockings (1969)Clockwise (1986)Paper Mask (1990)Element of Doubt (1996) Theatre This Story of Yours (John Hopkins), Royal Court (December 1968) Flint (David Mercer), Criterion Theatre (May 1970) The Caretaker (Harold Pinter), starring Leonard Rossiter at the Mermaid Theatre (March 1972) State of Revolution (Robert Bolt), National Lyttelton (1977) Sir Is Winning (Shane Connaughton), National Cottesloe (1977) The Lady from Maxim's (Georges Feydeau), National Lyttelton (1977) Brand (Ibsen), National Olivier (1978) The Philanderer (George Bernard Shaw), National Lyttelton (1978) Strife (John Galsworthy, National