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
BA Hum BA Open LLB LLM PhD FRSA, FHEA MCIJ PG Dip Law PG Cert Law Dip Lit Dip Eur Hum Cert Rad Journ (LCP) OWC
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, Postgraduate Research in Performance Studies at Roehampton University and researching audio drama and modernism, Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London.
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. Production projects with Whistledown for BBC National Radio Networks on First World War History 2014. Research and publication of The Secret Lives of a Secret Agent: The Mysterious Life and Times of Alexander Wilson, first and second editions the basis for BBC & PBS television drama series Mrs Wilson 2018. Author full length stage play Devils on Horseback on national tour by Creative Vortex 2017-8 and feature length film 2018premiered at Sands Studios Rotherhithe. Screenplay writer for The Franchise Club, a film by Connor J Matthews and Batavia Productions in 2018.
Crook, Tim. 2017. If print dies so does freedom. In: J. Mair and T. Clark, eds. LAST WORDS? How can journalism survive the decline of print? January 2017: Abramis Academic, pp. 119-124. ISBN 978-1-84549-696-8
Crook, Tim. 2016. Transatlantic or Anglo-American Corwin? In: Neil Verma and Jacob Smith, eds. Anatomy of Sound: Norman Corwin and Media Authorship. Oakland, California: University of California Press, pp. 195-210. ISBN 9780520285323
Crook, Tim. 2012. George Orwell: Cold War Warrior? In: Richard Keeble, ed. Orwell Today. Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England: Abramis Academic Publishing, pp. 30-47. ISBN 978-1845495534
Price, John. 2019. GoldDream exhibition. In: "GoldDream", Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom, 4 March – 6 April 2019.
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
The texts and cultural context of the novels and writing by Alexander Wilson The archiving of the audio and theatre drama output of Independent Radio Drama Productions Archiving Radio History The History of Radio Censorship Radio Modernism in the context of social, political, and cultural tensions of censorship British espionage literature between 1918 and 1945 Media law ethicology, jurisprudence and ethicism Radio and audio Drama dramaturgy and writing history The radio dramatisations and documentary of the fiction and nonfiction of George Orwell
Academic Editing
Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance, published by Intellect.
'Power, Intelligence, Whistle-blowing and the Contingency of History' at the conference on "History's first draft? Journalism, PR and the problems of truth-telling." Annual Conference of the Institute of Communication Ethics, The Foreign Press Association, London 3rd November 2010.
'Mythologizing the first 'C' Captain Mansfield Smith-Cumming in spy fiction and spy novel writing as an intelligence operation' at CRASSH (Centre for Research into the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities), Cambridge University, Covert Cultures and the Secret State 1911-1989, 5th February 2011
'Infantilising the Feral Beasts- the criminalisation of the bad boys and girls of popular journalism: Hackgate's boomerang,' at the conference on "Hackgate and its implications for communication ethics, investigative journalism and media regulation" Annual Conference of the Institute of Communication Ethics, The Foreign Press Association, London, 28th October 2011
'George Orwell- Cold War Radio Warrior? at CRASSH (Centre for Research into the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities), Cambridge University, Public Relations of the Cold War, 1st December 2011.
"Care home covert filming: Ethics and legal issues" at the conference 'Delivering Safe, High Quality Care in Residential and Community Settings' held at the Royal Society of Medicine 29th March 2012.
'Audio Drama for the Great War: Propaganda Records and Modernist' at the annual postgraduate research conference held by Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey 7-8th June 2012'
‘The cultural history of Britain, and the social and political-economic history of the River Thames and water supply to the people of London and surrounding areas,’ provided to a delegation from Arisu, The Office of Waterworks Seoul Metropolitan Government, Goldsmiths, University of London 28th and 29th August 2012.
‘Journalism ethics: Ideological and philosophical deceits and deficits’ at the conference ‘Journalism Ethics: Individual, institutional or cultural?’ held by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, St Ann’s College, University of Oxford 27th September 2012.
‘The Leveson Inquiry and the Chilling Effect- Journalism Inquisition, Moral Panic, and Diminishing Returns in Freedom of Expression.' At the conference ‘After Leveson?’- Institute of Communication Ethics, at the Front Line Club, Paddington 25th October 2012.
'Reginald Berkeley (1890-1935) and the BBC: Origins of radio drama in the context of Modernism' at the annual postgraduate research conference held by Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey 13-14th June 2013.
'The investigative journalist and academic researcher - The Praxis Convivencia: family history, espionage and war.’ Professorial Inaugural, School of Media, Birmingham City University, 20th March 2014.
'Writing Audio Drama: Radio, Film, Theatre and Other Media', ISBN 978-0415570756, Routledge 2022 'Radio Studies: A Cultural Enquiry', ISBN 9780954289928, Kultura Press 2022 'Media Ethics and Laws Power with Responsibility', ISBN 9780954289911, Kultura Press 2022 'Crook's Media Law: Analysing Key Cases', ISBN 9780954289904, Kultura Press 2022 'George Orwell on the Radio', ISBN 9781472414779, Ashgate August 2022
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