Christopher Jeremy Sandford[2][3] (5 December 1930 – 12 May 2003) was an English television screenwriter who came to prominence in 1966 with Cathy Come Home, his controversial entry in BBC1's The Wednesday Play anthology strand, which was directed by Ken Loach.
[4] His paternal grandmother was the Anglo-Irish writer Mary Carbery; by her first marriage he had relatives in the Happy Valley set in Kenya.
After his marriage to heiress Nell Dunn in 1957, they gave up their smart Chelsea home and went to live in unfashionable Battersea where they joined and observed the lower strata of society.
[5] For some time the family lived on a small hill farm called Wern Watkin, outside Crickhowell in South Wales.
[8] They had performed "The Raggle Taggle Gypsy" song at an early Mind Body Spirit Festival,[9] and they co-wrote a BBC Radio 4 drama-documentary about the suicide of Jill Hoey.