a Banff comedy award, and numerous other international awards. Blair produced Dunrulin''' for BBC1, a satirical comedy based on his own idea featuring the Thatcher family in retirement starring Angela Thorne and John Wells. He also made The Stone Age by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman for BBC1 and starring Trevor Eve. Other comedy productions include Packing Them In and Blue Heaven, both starring Frank Skinner and both for Channel Four. There was also the light-hearted dramatised documentary Sindy Hits Thirty, with Sandi Toksvig, for Channel Four. Theatre Blair is the author of The Biko Inquest, a play based on the inquest in South Africa into the death in prison of the black leader, Steve Biko. The play, originally written for television, and then later adapted for the Royal Shakespeare Company, pioneered the use of drama in current affairs. Blair directed the play-off Broadway in New York, starring Fritz Weaver and Philip Bosco, where it received considerable critical acclaim and ran for four months. After successful productions around the world it was produced on the London stage, and also for television, starring Albert Finney. The New York Times'' review said of this production that it was "extraordinarily effective" and that "the entire ensemble is so remarkably convincing that we are forced to remind ourselves that they are actors." A version of the play with an all-black cast was staged in Nigeria in 1979 directed by and starring the writer, poet, playwright and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka. References External links Sony classics biography Sony classics interview with Jon Blair Site for Dancing with the Devil film Guardian Review of Dancing with the devil Site for Anne Frank Remembered film Site for Jon Blair Film Company Ltd 1950 births American Experience Directors of Best Documentary Feature Academy Award winners Emmy Award winners Grammy Award winners Living people South African film directors South African Commanders of the Order of the British Empire