BRIAN KING
SENIOR PRODUCER


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Brian has worked with Above the Title for 5 years where, as well as being Senior Producer, he produces radio 4's flagship legal programme Unreliable Evidence with Clive Anderson.  He has made the two-part series The Last Lord Chancellor and The Court of Last Resort.


Brian is an award-winning pioneer of radio fly-on-the-wall documentaries.  He began his career as a newspaper reporter before moving to radio.  After several years producing documentaries for commercial radio he joined the BBC and over the years has produced hundreds of features, documentaries, plays and comedy programmes for Radio 4.

He was one of the pioneers of radio "observational" documentaries - The Doctors, The Teachers, The Hospital and The University among them.  More recently he has made "fly-on-the-wall" programmes about vicars, rabbis and imams, the England and Wales Cricket Board and district nurses.

He has been nominated for seven Sony awards, winning Gold for The Teachers.  Among his other work - On The Ropes, with John Humphrys; several travel and language series with Bill Bryson, the sitcom Acropolis Now with Lynne Truss and comedy debate show, Heresy, with David Baddiel.