Brian Tesler was one of the major figures in British television from the 1950s until his retirement in 1994. His professional career encompassed the medium's entire post-war evolution from a single-channel BBC to today's explosion of satellite and cable channels.

Before I Forget reflects Tesler's career throughout, but is not a record of it. Instead it is a very personal account of his family, of the East End's vibrant Jewish community in the early decades of the last century, and of the life of a youngster in London in peacetime and in war, immersed in the radio, theatre, movies and music hall of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Brian Tesler was born in London in 1929. He was educated at Chiswick County School for Boys and Exeter College, Oxford. His television career began in 1952 as a producer, first for the BBC and then for Associated Television. He was the leading producer of light entertainment programmes in that period, responsible for shows such as Ask Pickles and Sunday Night at the London Palladium, among others. In 1957, he was the first recipient of BAFTA's Light Entertainment Production Award.

Tesler was appointed Director of Programmes at ABC Television in 1965 and went on to become a founder-director of both Thames Television and Channel Four. At London Weekend Television, which he joined in 1974, he was appointed successively Deputy Chief Executive, Managing Director and Chairman and Managing Director. He retired in 1994.

Outside television, he sat on the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee for Inner London for six years, and was its Chairman for the last three. He was a Lay Interviewer for Judicial Appointments, and remains an Independent Assessor for the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments.

He lives in Chiswick, West London, with his wife Audrey.
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