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Prof Phil Redmond CBE
Writer, entrepreneur and Chair of National Museums Liverpool

Phil Redmond is best known for creating three of Britain’s longest running drama programmes, Grange Hill (30 years); Brookside (21 years) and Hollyoaks (11 years). He has written extensively for radio, television and stage and is currently a regular columnist for the Liverpool Daily Post. In June 2004 Phil was awarded a CBE for services to drama in The Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

One of the first two per cent to go through Britain’s comprehensive school system, Phil is proud that in 1989 he was awarded Honorary Chair of Media at Liverpool John Moores University.

In 2005, Phil and Alexis Redmond sold Mersey Television, at the time Britain’s largest independent drama production house and ‘downsized’ to a small film production company.

Phil became Deputy Chair and Creative Director of Liverpool’s Capital of Culture Board in 2007 which he described as taking on the organisation of a “typically Scouse wedding”!

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