Christopher John "Kit" Hesketh Harvey is a British musical performer, translator, composer and screenwriter.Born in Nyasaland (now Malawi), into a Foreign Office family, he was educated as senior chorister at Canterbury Cathedral and then at Tonbridge School in Kent. He gained an Exhibition in English Literature as well as a choral scholarship to Clare College, Cambridge, where he studied under John Rutter and joined the Footlights.Hesketh Harvey worked for six years as a staff producer for the BBC-TV Music and Arts Department, leaving to write the script for Merchant Ivory's Maurice (1987). He won the 1988 Vivian Ellis Award for musical theatre writers and subsequently studied with Stephen Sondheim at St Catherine's College, Oxford. Wikipedia