John Selwyn Gilbert

John Selwyn Gilbert (born on 17 March 1943) is a British television scriptwriter, director and producer.

The son of Guildhall School of Music professor and flautist Geoffrey Gilbert, John Selwyn Winzer Gilbert attended the Hall School in Hampstead from 1949 to 1956, St. Paul's School from 1956 to 1960, and the Sorbonne in Paris from 1960 to 1961.

He graduated from Merton College, Oxford in 1965 with a BA in Modern History. From 1963 to 1964 he was an Assistante at the Liceo Scientifico Leonardo da Vinci in Milan, and gained a Diploma in Education at the Oxford Institute of Education in 1966.

Gilbert then worked for Argo Records as an assistant on recordings by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger and as a record producer with Tom Paley, Shirley Collins, The Young Tradition and others. He recorded James Galway, who had been a student with his father, the Allegri Quartet and many others.

He joined the BBC in 1969 as a Production Director to help to set up the Open University. He produced and directed classical dramas, including Woyzeck, Six Characters in Search of an Author, The Way of the World and Peer Gynt (1976) for BBC/OU Productions before moving to BBC Music and Arts in 1978 as a Producer; he produced and directed TV programmes and films about Les noces (with Leonard Bernstein and The Royal Ballet), Sir Frederick Ashton, Evelyn Waugh and Aubrey Beardsley (1982). His documentary Beardsley and his Work appeared on television in the United Kingdom in the same week as his drama Aubrey, a BBC 'Playhouse' drama in which Beardsley was portrayed by actor John Dicks. The drama followed Beardsley's life from Oscar Wilde's arrest in April 1895, which resulted in Beardsley losing his position at The Yellow Book, to his death from tuberculosis in 1898.

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