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'The Data Revolution', WIRED
Thursday, August 05, 2010
Data information: How visual tools can transform lives
By James Silver|05 August 2010

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The Report: Community Sentencing, BBC Radio 4
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Justice Secretary Ken Clarke wants to reduce the prison population by getting more offenders on community sentences.

But magistrates claim the effectiveness of some community punishments is being compromised because of under resourcing. James Silver travels to Liverpool where local magistrate - and the chairman of the Magistrates' Association - believes the Government needs to do more to ensure courts have the range of community sanctions they need to tackle crime.

'Volcanic Ash = No Sushi', The Times (Raconteur)
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Contingency-planning and supply chain event management are all very well. But there are some things you just can’t plan for no matter how much risk assessment you do, reports James Silver.

With its dependence on fresh fish, few businesses have as complex and finely-calibrated supply chains as the Sushi trade. The journey from fisherman’s net to chef’s blade, can be tortuous, often clocking up several thousand air-miles.

'His only vice is women', The Spectator
Thursday, June 03, 2010
12 Hours with Vittorio Sgarbi, Italy's most libidinous mayor. By James Silver.

When Silvio Berlusconi was in trouble last year, accused of trysts with girls young enough to be his granddaughters, his former undersecretary for culture Vittorio Sgarbi rode nobly to his defence. ‘The thing you have to understand about Silvio,’ he declared, ‘is that unless he gains sexual satisfaction he cannot govern properly.’ Such a claim could only be taken seriously in Italy, where womanising is a national pastime and the more colourful public figures are widely admired. They don’t come much more colourful than Mr Sgarbi.

'The Great Trust Experiment', WIRED
Friday, May 07, 2010
The trust economy: A world of P2P money-lending
By James Silver|05 May 2010

In Chrouy Ampill a village in Kandal Province, Cambodia, 27-year-old Kakda Sun works as a weaver, making traditional shawls or kramas. Kakda Sun learned her trade from her mother on looms in the airy basement of the family home. But in 2007 she fell ill with appendicitis, and her family had to scrape together $300 for medical treatment. “I was working in a garment factory then,” she says, via a translator.

James Silver is a feature-writer and radio reporter, who specializes in the media, trends, culture, news features and investigations. He regularly presents current affairs documentaries for BBC Radio 4, and has written more than 300 articles for a range of publications including WIRED magazine, The Guardian, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Spectator, 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.
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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