Peter Curran

Peter Curran is a presenter, writer, documentary maker and musician. He was born and raised in Belfast where he co-wrote an acclaimed satirical revue ... And now before the Weather, The War, which toured the country to good notices and terrible threats.

After studying Politics and Theatre Studies, he travelled the USA working on funfairs, before moving to London to make bespoke office furniture for ten years. A recession in the building trade saw him reduced to retraining as a BBC reporter before going on to present the drive time show on BBC Greater London Radio. He can still clear the floor as a DJ at parties and concerts.

Peter presented When Art Went Pop on BBC2, fronted Culture Fix, a 40-part arts and culture series for BBC Knowledge and the media show Wired World for Channel 4.

His great-grandfather was an electrician who built and operated the first "talkie" cinema in Ireland, so pehaps Peter was merely genetically-suited to writing and presenting The Big Picture, a film programme which championed the burgeoning World Cinema scene.

His own small production company, Yodelay, made the radio documentary Changing Colours, about Britain's ethnic pioneers. On television, he presented the investigative series Education USA, and for Radio 4 Deep in The Heart of Texas, which was described by the Radio Times as "the most perfectly peculiar documentary of the year".

He lives in East Sussex with one wife, two children and - like eveyone else with a basic grasp of English - he's writing a musical.