Arthur Mathews

Arthur Mathews attended the College of Marketing and Design before (eventually) joining the Hot Press Art Department in 1985. After a spell in The Joshua Trio, he began writing for television along with fellow Hot Presser Graham Linehan. Among the shows he has created and/or written are Paris , Toast Of London , Father Ted , Hippies , Big Train , The All New Alexei Sayle Show , Brass Eye , Harry Enfield And Chums , The Fast Show , Black Books , Val Falvey TD and the film Wide Open Spaces . He...See more

Arthur Mathews attended the College of Marketing and Design before (eventually) joining the Hot Press Art Department in 1985. After a spell in The Joshua Trio, he began writing for television along with fellow Hot Presser Graham Linehan. Among the shows he has created and/or written are Paris , Toast Of London , Father Ted , Hippies , Big Train , The All New Alexei Sayle Show , Brass Eye , Harry Enfield And Chums , The Fast Show , Black Books , Val Falvey TD and the film Wide Open Spaces . He has written a 'bogus memoir', Well Remembered Days (John Peel's favourite book of all time!), as well as The Craggy Island Parish Newsletters , Father Ted - The Complete Scripts (with Graham Linehan), The Book Of Poor Ould Fellas (with Declan Lynch), Angry Baby , and Toast On Toast . As a cartoonist he contributed 'Charles J. Haughey's Believe It or Not' to Hot Press , 'Doctor Crawshaft's World Of Pop' to the New Musical Express and 'The Chairman' to the Observer Sport Monthly . In the theatre, he created and co-wrote the long running musical I, Keano . On radio he has created and written The Golden Age and Men About The House for BBC Radio 4 and Luneen Live (co-written with Paul Woodfull) for RTÉ. He regards his annual Border Fascist contribution to Hot Press as one of his finest achievements. See less