Michael Henry

Michael Henry won a Junior Exhibition Scholarship to the Royal College of Music at the age of 11, and at the age of 22 was offered the position of administrator of the Monteverdi Orchestra, a position he did not take up, instead, becoming a solicitor specialising in entertainment law regarded as one of the UK's "leading" entertainment lawyers.

He was UK adviser to the Council of Europe, former member of the Legal Advisory Board European Commission DGXIII and former principal external legal adviser of the BFI. His legal publications run to over 12 volumes including the prestigious Entertainment and Media Volumes of the Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents.

He has written a radio drama for BBC Radio 3. His translation of Diderot's eighteenth-century anti- novel Jacques the Fatalist is published by Penguin Classics and was one of only 400 works from all fields of human creativity selected for inclusion in the UNESCO-sponsored Millennium Archive of Humankind maintained by the Institute of Philosophy in Naples.