 James Silver is a feature-writer, who specializes in the media, tech, advertising, business, cultural trends and news/magazine features. He regularly presents current affairs documentaries for BBC Radio 4, and has written more than 300 articles for a range of publications including The Sunday Times Magazine, The Observer, WIRED magazine The Guardian, The Times, The Spectator, Total Politics, The Independent, The Evening Standard, The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, The Independent on Sunday, Press Gazette, Media Week, BBC News Online and Sky News Online. From 1995-2002, he worked for the BBC. He has presented nearly 100 documentaries and features for Radio 4, 5 Live, the World Service and American Radio Works. In 2000, he was part of the team which won the Sony Gold Award for News.
Interviewees in broadcast and print include: Kofi Annan, Sir Richard Branson, Norman Mailer, Boris Johnson, Ken Livingstone, Michael Gove, David Lammy, Alistair Darling, Lord Tebbit, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, Christiane Amanpour, Alexander Shustorovich, Carl Bernstein, Sir Max Hastings, Scott McClennan, Alan Dershowitz, Clive James, Ian Rankin, Irvine Welsh, Nick Denton, Mark Thompson, Robert Peston, Piers Morgan, Kelvin MacKenzie, Jeremy Kyle, Richard & Judy, Richard Bacon, Max Clifford and Jade Goody.
James conducts media training sessions for leading media training companies Electric Airwaves and Media Mentor working with household name corporate clients in finance, tourism, aviation, technology, health, pharmaceuticals, entertainment, consumer and education, as well as those in the public sector.
Away from journalism, James is a screenwriter. He has written five screenplays including: Monkey Man, a comic drama now in development with BBC TV Drama, Dead Man Talking, a comedy, thriller The Ridge, Skivvy, a feature based on a true crime story and The Gawk Parade, a children's fantasy feature. He is represented by Sean Gascoine and Hania Elkington at United Agents. |
