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 Church Times and Developments

• 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 books 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, Bianca Jagger and Amartya Sen

• 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)