Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music is a book ghostwritten

Ghostwriter

A ghostwriter is a professional writer who is paid to write books, articles, stories, reports, or other texts that are officially credited to another person. Celebrities, executives, and political leaders often hire ghostwriters to draft or edit autobiographies, magazine articles, or other written...

 by Tim Lihoreau for author, actor, comedian and director Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry

Stephen John Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter and film director, and a director of Norwich City Football Club. He first came to attention in the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also...

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It is based on Fry's regular Classic FM (UK)

Classic FM (UK)

Classic FM, one of the United Kingdom's three Independent National Radio stations, broadcasts classical music in a popular and accessible style.-Overview:...

 radio slot and is a book about the history of classical music

Classical music

Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

. Fellow radio host Lihoreau has written a range of Classic FM publications along similar lines.

Fry provided a Foreword in which he states that it is "a very personal book" (p. ix). Although the book is written in the first person

First person

First person may refer to:* First-person narrative, a literary device* First-person interpretation, a museum technique* First Person , an interview-based television series created by Errol Morris...

, the nature and extent of Fry's contribution is not otherwise explained.