Freelance work

Among other things, I have

• written and broadcast regular ‘thoughts for the day’ on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme

• written 24 columns for the Independent

• done interviews for the ‘ethical lifestyle’ magazine Sublime, and written features for Green Futures, Developments and Church Times

• edited the comment pages of the Independent on Sunday

• edited books for Continuum, Monarch, Hodder & Stoughton and Piquant – including Andrew White’s award-winning memoirs Iraq: Searching for hope and The Vicar of Baghdad, and Betty Spackman’s A Profound Weakness: Christians and kitsch

• proofread both fiction and non-fiction for Orion

• subbed for New Statesman and ER

• commissioned and edited scores of interviews for Third Way – including Thom Yorke of Radiohead (‘an incredible scoop’ – The Observer), James Lovelock, Tracey Emin, Annie Lennox and Amartya Sen. I have myself interviewed for the magazine Khalid Mish’al of Hamas, General Sir Michael Jackson, Claire Fox, Bianca Jagger and Nigel Farage

• worked on speeches for a prominent Labour peer

• worked as a specialist researcher and booker for Radio 4 on the 2006 series of ‘Iconoclasts’

• edited an annual report for BTCV, as well as two issues of its magazine Conserver

• edited a souvenir programme for the Greenbelt Arts Festival, and contributed a column to its website

• contributed a 5,000-word essay (with copious notes) to Professor Andrew Linzey’s book Animals on the Agenda: Questions about animals for theology and ethics (SPCK)

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