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Peter Curran is a radio presenter, writer, documentary maker and audiobook publisher. He grew up in Belfast, the eldest of six children. After leaving school he worked on funfairs in the USA before moving to London. Curran worked for an interior design and building company for four years before re-training as a BBC reporter. In 1992, he began DJ'ing full-time for the London radio station BBC GLR. He is guest lecturer in Multimedia Broadcast Journalism at University of Brighton〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Industry influence )〕 and has described himself as "a failed drummer" 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Wright Stuff() (2002) )〕 ==Career== Curran writes and presents for television, radio and online. He also writes features and opinion pieces for The Independent and Mail On Sunday. He is an independent documentary maker and radio producer., being nominated as 'Best Creative' at the 2014 UK Radio Production Awards.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Radio Production Awards 2014 - Nominations )〕 His presenting career began in the 1990s when he hosted a daily show on BBC GLR featuring live music and interviews. The Peter Curran Show ran for eight years until 1999, when BBC London adopted a News/Phone-in format for the 4pm-6pm slot. He presented BBC London's movie programme The Big Picture for three years and reviewed films〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BFI - Sight & Sound - Buena Vista Social Club (1998) )〕 for the magazine Sight & Sound. In 1998, Curran and producer Stephen Wilkinson began work on the first UK television programmes to feature streaming video and an interactive website.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Towards a learning organisation )〕 The shows featured news about internet development and technology and were recorded in London's Cybercafe for broadcast as part of BBC2's Learning Zone. Since then, Curran has written and presented documentaries and shows for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 2 including Loose Ends, Pick Of The Week and Spinal Tap: Back From the Dead, a well-received radio mockumentary 〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00l9skv〕 which Curran produced with the original cast of the movie This Is Spinal Tap. He has reported from India and the USA for From Our Own Corresepondent,〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzt3d〕 and presented two series of The Tribes of Science for Radio 4 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC Radio 4 - The Tribes of Science, The Mathematicians )〕 an anthropological study of scientists at work and play, including a rare insight into the work at Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire. Other examples of his work include The Friday Night Arts Show and The Electric Ride series for Radio 4 and BBC Online (for which he drove an electric car five thousand miles through seven European countries, asking local people to recharge the battery every 100 miles) (), and The Foghorn: A Celebration,. As an independent radio producer, Curran persuaded Nick Leeson and his former boss Peter Norris and colleagues to face each other for the first time since Leeson precipitated the collapse of Barings Bank , for a famously tense edition of The Reunion on BBC Radio 4 () For television, Curran has scripted and/or presented numerous Arts and culture programmes, such as Personal Passions When Art Went Pop and Edinburgh Nights for BBC2 . He presented Channel 4's Wired World, Discovery Channel's architecture and engineering series Building The Best, Restoration Nation and a 40-part Arts education series for BBC Knowledge Culture Fix.〔BBC ('Culture Fix Episodes' )〕 Curran created the online TV series The Teaching Challenge for Brook Lapping and directed five series of the show from 2007-2011 〔http://www.proteachersvideo.com/Programme/24278/suggs〕 In 2013 he presented a television essay, Maiden City Voyage, billed as a cultural audit of Derry/Londonderry during its City of Culture role This followed Slack Sabbaths, an earlier wry TV journey into how religious and social culture had changed since The Troubles began in Northern Ireland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC One - Slack Sabbaths?, Preview of Slack Sabbaths? )〕 Curran created Bunk Bed with co-writer/host Patrick Marber, a series of late-night conversations featuring music and archive speech, first broadcast during April 2014 on BBC Radio 4, with Series 2 broadcast in July 2015. He is co-founder of audiobook publisher Talking Music; Curran's project to record Revolution in the Head , Ian MacDonald's classic book about The Beatles' recording career came to fruition in 2015, voiced by well-known Beatles fans such as David Morrissey and Danny Baker.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Audio Books Review: Audio Books Roundup )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Curran (presenter)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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