Goldsmiths - University of London

Tim Crook

International Media Law and Ethics, Dramaturgy of espionage and spy fiction, Propaganda and use of Information in War, All aspects of Radio and Journalism Practice and History, Practice and History of Radio Drama, and prose/scriptwriting for stage, film and television.

Education

Professional training in Radio Journalism at the London College of Printing, Law at the University of London, Literature, Film & Television History, Crime & Social Policy at the Open University and postgraduate research in Performance Studies at Roehampton University

Grants & awards

More than 60 professional awards for drama, journalism and production: UK Sony, US International Radio Festivals, Prix Italia, and Writers Guild of Great Britain

Radio Reporter of the Year 1985

Campaign for Freedom of Information Award 1988

Grand Award for Entertainment 1994

Professional activities

Membership of professsional organisations & advisory groups

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Board of Distinguished Advisors to the International Radio Festival of New York
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Manufactures
National Union of Journalists
Visiting Instructor on Media Law to the British Broadcasting Corporation

Web links

www.irdp.co.uk
www.ma-radio.gold.ac.uk
Online review by Paul A Green of Radio Drama: Theory & Practice
Evidence to the Mediawise Child Exploitation and the Media Forum in 1997 that secrecy attaching to UK family proceedings and the position of children in youth courts would undermine public confidence and judicial standards.
Bournemouth University's London Broadcasting Company / Independent Radio News [LBC/IRN] Archive Project
Daily Telegraph article on Public Interest/Private Lives
Companion website for Comparative Media Law & Ethics

Television and video output

Documentaries on Great War audio dramas for BFBS and BBC Radio Four 2007

Originator and co-producer of documentaries on the Electrophone and Mabel Constanduros for BBC Radio Four in 2005

Radio Drama author, producer and director for UK independent radio, NPR USA and BBC Radio

Professional Theatre director and consultant and dramaturg for UK film and television

Research interests

Information Terrorism
Dramaturgy of espionage and spy fiction
The performance of lying in audio/radio media
Anti-Semitism in Media History
Practice Theory literature for Journalism and Broadcasting

Selected publications

• 'Sociology of Radio' in Blackwell's Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2006

• Entries on Alistair Cooke, Frank Gillard, Desert Island Discs, Broadcasting House, British Radio Journalists, BBC Radio, BBC Radio Programming, World Radio Drama, US Radio Drama, BBC Local Radio and Giles Cooper for Radio Encyclopaedia, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearbon (An imprint of Taylor & Francis), 2004

• Tim Crook's evidence on restorative justice reform for media law to the UK House of Commons select enquiry into libel, privacy and press standards in September 2009.

• Memoranda for the House of Commons Select Committee Culture, Media and Sport: 'Whatever happened to News at Ten?', 2000 and 'Funding the BBC', 1999

Conferences and multimedia presentations

Academic paper presentation on the subject of 'Mythologizing the first 'C' of MI6 through the novels of Alexander Wilson' at a conference on 'Covert Cultures' hosted by CRASSH at the University of Cambridge on 5th February 2011

Part One: 15 minutes

Part Two: 12 minutes 53 seconds

Tim Crook reads the first part of the first chapter of his literary biography of the spy and author Alexander Wilson "The Secret Lives Of A Secret Agent: The Life and Times of Alexander Wilson," published by Kultura Press in October 2010. 13 minutes 14 seconds.

TheSecretLivespodcastPart1 by Comparative Media Law

Links

• Independent Article on The Secret Lives Of A Secret Agent
  
  
• The London Evening Standard Article on Tim Crook's research into the mysterious life and times of Alexander Wilson
  
  
• East London Lines on the book launch for The Secret Lives Of A Secret Agent in Goldsmiths New Academic Building