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 Paul Allen Paul Allen was born in Kent and brought up in cold country vicarages; singing in church choirs came with the territory. He studied classics and philosophy and played cricket in Israel, Herold in a play by John Arden and trombone in Tchaikovsky and Gershwin before settling in Sheffield to train as a reporter. He still lives there. In 1976 he was the first regional journalist to be named Critic of the Year in the British Press Awards, for television and radio reviewing. Soon afterwards he wrote dramatised case histories for a prize- winning documentary series on alcoholism for commercial radio. In the 1980s he began a long association with the Radio 4 arts magazine Kaleidoscope. He wrote and presented the Kaleidoscope feature The Fig and the Leaf, which won the last BP Arts Journalism Award for radio in 1993. Two dozen of his plays have been produced, on radio and in theatres across the country. Most recently his adaptation of Brassed Off opened in Sheffield and subsequently transferred to the National Theatre. His own trombone only came out in private. A long association with the Arts Council drama panel in the 1990s generated far more abusive letters than ever broadcasting or criticism did. He was also a founder member of the Yorkshire Arts Board and is currently vice-chairman of the board of Sheffield Theatres and a member of Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust. He holds an Honorary Doctorate of Sheffield Hallam University, and teaches dramaturgy at the University of Sheffield. Paul Allen has been presenting Night Waves since May 1998. He has pursued art and artists, critics, thinkers, historians (and anyone else who tries to map the way we live) from St Petersburg to Barcelona, Greenland to Cairo, Serbia to Belfast, Aberdeen to Penzance. And from the Royal Opera House to Willesden. |
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