Meet William Crawley

He presented Blueprint, a major multi-platform television three-part series for BBC One, broadcast in April 2008, which told the story of 600 million years of Ireland's natural history.

He has also presented BBC Northern Ireland's weekly late-night television interview series "William Crawley Meets ...", which featured face-to-face interviews with leading thinkers and social reformers from across the world, including the philosopher Peter Singer, the scientist Richard Dawkins, the writer and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg, and the gay bishop Gene Robinson.

His first documentary for BBC television was Frozen North (BBC One), broadcast in October 2005, which examined the possible future impact of global warming on Northern Ireland. In May 2006, he presented the four-part series More Than Meets The Eye (BBC One), in which he traveled across Northern Ireland to investigate the myths, folklore and traditional practices that are still part of life for many people in Northern Ireland - from belief in the traditional Cure to the increasing popularity of fortune-telling parties.

In February 2007, he presented Sorry For Your Trouble (BBC One), a one-hour documentary about death and dying. In the television series What's Wrong With...? (BBC Two), William invited distinguished dinner guests to converse on some of the biggest questions facing our society today, including the future of family life, the legalisation of assisted suicide, the environmental crisis, and prison reform. Dying For A Drink (BBC One), a documentary explorating alcohol and its impact in Northern Ireland, was broadcast in October 2008.

Other television projects include: Festival Nights (BBC Two Northern Ireland), television coverage of the 2005, 2006 and 2007 Belfast Festival at Queens; and Hearts and Minds (BBC One), as a reporter on BBC Northern Ireland's television political review programme;

On radio, he presents BBC Radio Ulster's weekly Sunday Sequence programme, and The Book Programme, a literary review programme and Not the Nolan Show, a weekly current affairs phone-in show. His other regular radio presenting roles include Talk Back, BBC Radio Ulster's flagship news and current affairs programme; Evening Extra, the station's drive-time news programme; and Arts Extra, a daily arts review programme.

Previous radio projects: A Sky Full of Voices, a series of six programmes which explored the BBC's contribution to life in Northern Ireland; The Land, a six-part documentary series on how the people in Ireland relate to the land they inhabit; The Bonfire Makers (for BBC Radio 4), an examination of Northern Ireland's controversial annual Loyalist bonfire tradition, and arts documentaries for BBC Radio 3 on George Bernard Shaw and the Sir Hugh Lane.

William was born and raised in Belfast, and educated in Belfast and Princeton, New Jersey. He earned degrees in philosophy and theology, including a PhD in philosophy.