Peter Lee-Wright

Peter Lee-Wright is a former journalist and television producer, whose work embraced everything from arts and music to international affairs. He has written for a variety of outputs, from jazz interviews for the short-lived UK answer to Rolling Stone - Street Life - to a recent feature on Romania in the Geographical magazine. In his early career, he directed music for youth programmes and the film review programme with Barry Norman. His first book, Child Slaves, resulted from a year travelling the world to make a feature-length documentary about child labour and prostitution for the BBC.

As a producer, he has worked for all the British terrestrial channels, from documentary series charting the decline of industrial Britain and the early lives of top comedians to dramas about nuclear fission and drug abuse in Middlesbrough. This wide-ranging career, taking him to over 40 countries, informed his Documentary Handbook, a book which explores the multiple mutations of documentary which television has developed. He was, until 2014, head of television at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he taught an international Masters in Television Journalism, taking an active part in an ongoing research, contributing to various publications and co-authoring the book Changing Journalism.

An occasional blog on his European tours, regretting Britain's regressive rejection of the EU, has prompted Peter to turn his attention to fiction. His first novel, The Copper Beech, takes an imaginative approach to that upcoming fracture, as seen through an adolescent's eyes.