Peter Curran (presenter)

Peter Curran
Born	Belfast, Northern Ireland

Peter Curran is a publisher, radio producer, writer and broadcaster. He grew up in Belfast, the eldest of six children and worked on funfairs in the USA before moving to London, working as a carpenter then re-training as a BBC reporter. In 1992 he began DJ'ing full-time for the London radio station BBC GLR. He formed audio publisher Talking Music with Patch McQuaid in 2011, publishing books on Eminem, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Glam rock, Acid house, Adele, The Clash and others, written and read by authors such as Charles Shaar Murray, Jane Bussmann and Barney Hoskyns. In interviews, Curran regularly describes himself as 'a failed drummer', a reference to his time with the new wave band PIG.

His presenting career began in the 1990s when he hosted a weekday show on BBC GLR featuring live music sessions from a range of artists such as Radiohead, The Staple Singers, Foo Fighters and Wu Tang Clan alongside record reviews and profile interviews with authors, film makers and comedians.The Peter Curran Show ran for six years until 1999, when BBC London adopted a News/Phone-in format for the 4pm-6pm slot. He presented BBC London's movie programme The Big Picture for three years and reviewed films for the magazine Sight & Sound. He's an independent documentary maker and radio producer., being nominated as a 'Best Producer..' at the 2016 UK Audio Production Awards.. Curran persuaded Nick Leeson and his former boss Peter Norris and colleagues to face each other for the first time since Leeson precipitated the collapse of Barings Bank, for a famously tense edition of The Reunion on BBC Radio 4.

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