Cash Peters
Cashman "Cash" Peters is a British author, television, and radio contibutor who writes on travel and show business.
Biography
Peters was born in Stockport, England. By 15, he had written material for radio and TV shows including The Two Ronnies and The News Huddlines. After graduating from university with a law degree he worked at the High Court of Justice in London, and in his spare time worked as a reporter on Capital Radio's The Way It Is news magazine. He turned to full-time journalism, winning several awards for travel reporting and presented "Wildfire", a series of travel specials on BBC Radio. In 1987 his series Around the World in Ninety Seconds won the Best Light Entertainment Writer Award at the New York Radio Festival. In 1997 he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he lives with his partner.
Peters appeared for two seasons in the Travel Channel TV show Stranded with Cash Peters,[1] and wrote the book Naked In Dangerous Places about his experiences.[2] In 2003 Peters wrote Gullible's Travels: The Adventures of a Bad Taste Tourist.[3] Until January 2012 he contributed a short show business segment on BBC Radio Five Live's Up All Night with Rhod Sharp, and appears as a commentator on American Public Media's Marketplace.[4]
Operation Parallax
In 1979, Peters staged an elaborate April Fool's joke on Capital Radio's Sunday Soapbox, posing as a concerned listener who claimed the government planned to cancel the following two Thursdays to correct errors that had occurred due to switching the clocks back and forth every year to account for British Summer Time. forty-eight hours had accumulated altogether, and under "Operation Parallax" the following two Thursdays would be cancelled and the calendar would jump from Wednesday to Friday.[5][6]
Television shows
Radio shows
- Savvy Traveler
Movies
- Fog City Mavericks - voice of Charlie Chaplin.[7]
Awards
- Benjamin Franklin Literary Award for Humor
- New York Radio Festival for Best Light Entertainment Writer Award (1987)
Bibliography
- Peters Cash ( 1990-10-04 ) The World Domination Handbook. New English Library.
- Peters Cash (1995-07-06 ) The Telltale Alphabet. Corgi
- Peters Cash ( 1998-01-06 ) Instant Insight: Secrets Of Life,Love And Destiny Revealed In Your Handwriting
Grand Central Publishing ISBN 00466733556
- Peters Cash ( 2003-01-01 ) Love Letters: Let His Handwriting Be Your Guide.
Citadel ISBN 0806524774
- Peters Cash ( 2003-06-01 ) Gullible's Travels: The Adventures Of A Bad Taste Tourist.
Globe Pequot Press ISBN 978-7627-2714-8. Audio CD ( 2007-01-02 ) Blackstone Audio Inc. ISBN 978-1433200717 Also available as a download.
- Peters Cash ( 2009-04-21 ) Naked In Dangerous Places. potter Style
ISBN 978-0-30739635-8 Kindle Edition ( 2009-04-21 ) Crown ASIN B0026UNZDG
- Peters Cash ( 2010-07-06 ) Stranded In Dangerous Places.
John Blake Publishing Ltd. ISBN978-1844549719
- Peters Cash ( 2011 ) A Little Book About Believing: The Transformative Healing Power Of
Faith,Love And Surrender. Penners. ISBN 0098-4887637 Kindle edition ASIN B0053T3AI2
- Peters Cash ( 2012 ) Force Of Habit: Sister Madeleine Investigates.
Penner Inc. ISBN 978-0984887620 Kindle Edition. ASIN B006N01TH4
- Peters Cash (2013) Horror At Horsfield Lodge: A Chillingley Village Mystery.
Kindle Edition ASIN B00DII1X34
External links
References
- ↑ Stranger in a strange land works his charm with the locals canada.com
- ↑ A little flight reading | The Australian
- ↑ "WNN Book Excerpt: Gullible's Travels". ABC News. 7 January 2006.
- ↑ Berr, Jonathan (28 May 2009). "Media World: Why public radio's Marketplace is happy not to be CNBC". dailyfinance.com.
- ↑ http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/comments/883/
- ↑ http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/07/03/28/the-10-funniest-pranks-of-all-time-in-honor-of-april-fools-day.htm
- ↑ list of full cast and crew for Fog City Mavericks, from imdb