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PETER CURRAN
Peter was born and raised in Belfast where he formed the Irish punk band PIG. After briefly studying Politics and Theatre Studies he travelled the USA working on funfairs before moving to London to make bespoke office furniture. Having won repeated plaudits for his GLR afternoon show, he joined Mark Lamarr presenting Edinburgh Nights (BBC2).
He went on to write and present When Art Went Pop (BBC2) and fronted Culture Fix a 40-part arts and pop culture series for BBC Knowledge. He has filmed three series of Personal Passions for BBC2 and presented the architecture series Building the Best for Discovery.
In summer 2004
he presented Restoration Nation for BBC 4.
He
also joined Mariella Frostrup on Radio 2 s new arts programme The Green Room. He presented The Big Picture for BBC London reviewing new film release in London with interview and features. Last year his own small production outfit, Yodelay, produced the BBC radio documentary Changing Colours.
“How have attitudes to the increasing multi-ethnic nature of British society changed? Peter Curran asked some of it s leading lights.....This could have been a stodgy sociological exercise but Curran gave it just the right mix of welly and wisecracks.” Sue Arnold - Observer
On Radio 4 he is a regular guest presenter on Midweek and wrote and presented the science series State of Emergency. He is a regular columnist on Home Truths and Loose Ends. On Radio 2 he produced and presented their much praised profile of Elvis Costello. Peter has conducted profile interviews with Al Pacino, Martin Scorsese, Russell Crowe, Denzel Washington, Tracy Emin, Radiohead, Tony Blair and hundreds of other entertainment, political and cultural figures for radio and television. He is married with two children and lives in west London. He works as a voluntary bereavement counsellor in west London
Press : “Curran s sympathetic , thorough trawl through graffiti and hip-hop was eye opening. Like other Culture Fixes, it was very well researched and listened carefully to it s interviewees. Why is it confined to a digital only channel? Would it be too radical to repeat the whole series on BBC2 ?”
-Daily Telegraph
“One of the pleasures of living in London is that you get to hear Peter Curran on a regular basis. His show is remarkable for the casual way it combines music with contemporary literature and ideas”. Robert Hanks - The Independent
“On the radio, Peter Curran is the master. He plays and idiosyncratic mix of punk and funk, reggae and anything that s new. He also interrogates his guests in a manner which is both friendly and searching, and he also is looking for a reason to chuckle”.
- Charlie Gillett - The Guardian
“This psychiatric inquisition might have revealed all there was to see, had we not heard Julian Clary bouncing of Peter Curran’s far more penetrating and entertaining profile on Radio 4 last week” - Sunday Telegraph
“Peter Curran, a honey-voiced Irishman has earned a large following for the intelligence of his broadcasts and his wry sense of humour. He’s also mustard hot on new music...” London Evening Standard
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