Bennett Arron is a Welsh writer and stand-up comedian.Born in Port
Talbot to a Jewish family, Bennett moved to London to attend the drama
school, the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts. After leaving drama
school he formed the sketch group 4-Ply and toured venues around the
country, appearing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.In 1997 Arron was
a finalist of the BBC New Comedy Awards, alongside Peter Kay. He is a
past winner of the BBC Wales New Writer's Award and the TAPS Comedy
Writer of The Year Award.He has written and starred in the BBC Radio
series Bennett Arron is JeWelsh and Bennett Arron Worries About...,
both of which were nominated for a Celtic Media Award. He presented
the BBC Television Documentary The Kosher Comedian in which he traced
his family's roots from Lithuania to South Wales and described a
reason for the decline of Jews in Wales. In 2007, he wrote, directed
and presented the documentary How Not to Lose Your Identity for
Channel 4 which was based on his own experience of identity fraud. In
the programme he proved how easy it is to carry out the crime by
dumpster diving and social engineering. He even went as far as setting
up a stall at a shopping centre, supposedly selling identity theft
insurance, but was, in fact, scamming people into revealing all their
identity information. He also stole the identity of the then Home
Secretary, Charles Clarke and was subsequently arrested. Bennett wrote
a memoir of his experience Heard the One About Identity Theft?
Talbot to a Jewish family, Bennett moved to London to attend the drama
school, the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts. After leaving drama
school he formed the sketch group 4-Ply and toured venues around the
country, appearing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.In 1997 Arron was
a finalist of the BBC New Comedy Awards, alongside Peter Kay. He is a
past winner of the BBC Wales New Writer's Award and the TAPS Comedy
Writer of The Year Award.He has written and starred in the BBC Radio
series Bennett Arron is JeWelsh and Bennett Arron Worries About...,
both of which were nominated for a Celtic Media Award. He presented
the BBC Television Documentary The Kosher Comedian in which he traced
his family's roots from Lithuania to South Wales and described a
reason for the decline of Jews in Wales. In 2007, he wrote, directed
and presented the documentary How Not to Lose Your Identity for
Channel 4 which was based on his own experience of identity fraud. In
the programme he proved how easy it is to carry out the crime by
dumpster diving and social engineering. He even went as far as setting
up a stall at a shopping centre, supposedly selling identity theft
insurance, but was, in fact, scamming people into revealing all their
identity information. He also stole the identity of the then Home
Secretary, Charles Clarke and was subsequently arrested. Bennett wrote
a memoir of his experience Heard the One About Identity Theft?
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