 James Silver is a feature-writer and interviewer, who specializes in the media, politics, trends, culture and investigations. He presents current affairs documentaries for BBC Radio 4, and has written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Times, The Sunday Times, Wired magazine, The Independent, The Evening Standard, The Observer, The Independent on Sunday, mediaguardian.co.uk, BBC News Online, Sky News Online, Media Week, Press Gazette and Total Politics magazine, to which he is a contributing editor.
Among the well-known figures he's interviewed are: Clive James, Sir Richard Branson, Norman Mailer, Boris Johnson, Alistair Darling, Lord Tebbit, Sir John Stevens, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, Carl Bernstein, Christiane Amanpour, Robert Peston, Jonathan Franzen, Ian Rankin, Irvine Welsh, Michael Mann, David Fincher, Piers Morgan, Richard & Judy, Jeremy Kyle and Jade Goody.
From 1995-2002, James worked for the BBC. He has presented more than 50 documentaries for Radio 4, 5 Live, the World Service and American Radio Works, also reporting for Radio 4’s The Report, File on Four, Profile, Crossing Continents and From Our Own Correspondent. In 2000, he was part of the team which won the Sony Gold Award for News. His career began producing late night radio shows on politics with Vincent Hanna and lifestyle with John Diamond.
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