I’m an experienced broadcaster, both on radio and television. I was a specialist contributor to BBC4/WGBH’s Shakespeare Uncovered TV series (2012) and Channel 4’s Shakespeare’s Tomb (2016), and I’ve made live appearances on BBC News as an arts commentator and journalist.

I particularly love radio, and in addition to making regular appearances as a reviewer and commentator on Front Row (Radio 4), Free Thinking/Night Waves (Radio 3) and various Five Live programmes, I’ve written and presented several documentaries:

  • Left-Handed Liberty: a feature programme on the unjustly neglected Marxist playwright John Arden, and his project to write a play about Magna Carta (45 mins, Radio 3, 2015)
  • Selling Shakespeare: a 400th-anniversary-themed documentary, taking a wry look at the global Shakespeare business (30 mins, Radio 3/World Service, 2016)

I was thrilled to be asked to contribute to the very first From Our Home Correspondent on Radio 4 in May 2016, and also have presented for the World Service’s Outlook strand.

Online, I’ve written and fronted a number of short arts documentaries for the Guardian, on topics including theatre, dance, design, architecture and visual art. Here’s a quick selection.

Ian Hamilton Finlay and Little Sparta – An Artist’s Garden

A life in theatre: director Peter Brook

Britain’s Best Buildings: King’s College, Cambridge