Broadcasting
I love broadcasting, and I've done everything from review movies for BBC Radio 4's live arts strand Front Row to appearing on US, Canadian and Irish Public Radio. I've also contributed to current-affairs programmes such as From Our Own Correspondent and the Today programme. As a presenter, I write and front radio documentaries and online videos, and have appeared as a specialist contributor in a number of TV documentaries, both internationally and in the UK.
Radio
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 and contributed to the BBC's From Our Own Correspondent and From Our Home Correspondent series.
Power Plays
BBC Radio 3
45 mins, 2019
Documentary commissioned for the 30th anniversary of 1989, focusing on the extraordinary story of playwrights and directors who worked in communist East Germany, their battles with the Stasi – and the part they played in bringing down the Berlin Wall.
Exit Burbage
BBC Radio 3
45 mins, 2018
In-depth documentary examining the life of Richard Burbage – the first actor to play Hamlet, and Shakespeare’s greatest collaborator. I travelled from London to Washington DC, trying to put flesh on the bones of this mysterious figure.
Singing with Nightingales
BBC Radio 4
7 mins, 2017
Essay/thinkpiece on the nightingale for Radio 4's From Our Home Correspondent strand, reflecting on the songbird's rich artistic legacy and endangered present.
Resurrecting Comrade Boris
BBC Radio 4
7 mins, 2016
Piece for the legendary From Our Own Correspondent strand, reporting from Ekaterinburg, Russia, on the city’s newest attraction – a museum devoted to the life and times of Boris Yeltsin, the much-maligned former premier.
TV
I’ve been a specialist contributor to BBC4/WGBH’s Shakespeare Uncovered TV series (2012–18) and Channel 4’s Shakespeare’s Tomb (2016).
I’ve been a panellist on the live debate programme The Big Questions (BBC1), and have often appeared live on BBC News as an arts commentator and journalist.
Online video
I’ve written and fronted a number of short arts documentaries for The Guardian, on topics including theatre, dance, design, architecture and visual art.