BIOGRAPHY

Peter is a journalist, broadcaster and commentator.

He writes features on the arts and social issues for the Sunday Times, and has also contributed opinion pieces to the Spectator, the Sunday Telegraph, the Los Angeles Times, the Times, the FT and the Independent on Sunday. Alongside this he is a film and theatre critic for the Sunday Times. He is also a columnist on the new Standpoint magazine.

He is a regular guest on BBC 2's Newsnight Review, appears regularly on Sky News and and has also appeared on ITV's Tonight Extra and Channel Five News. He is a regular guest on Radio 2's programme The Weekender and The Green Room, and has also been a guest on Radio 4's Moral Maze and Front Row programmes. He was also host of the Carlton Cinema Channel. He was the producer and host of Culture Clash, the weekly cultural review show on 18 Doughty Street, the UK's first internet TV channel.

As a documentary-maker, he has produced and directed factual programmes for ITV, Channel 4, Five and the BBC, as well as for the Fox Network and USA Networks in America, where he lived for four years. Subjects have ranged from a biography of Elizabeth I and a week in the life of a Hollywood paparazzi, to a special on Tom Hanks and a behind-the-scenes look at the workings of Wallpaper magazine.

In April 2006, he founded The New Culture Forum, of which he continues to be director. His first book, Look at Me: Celebrating the Self in Modern Britain, which explores the cult of visibility and celebrity, published by the Social Affairs Unit in May 2008.