Old Salopian Nicholas Rankin (Moser’s, 1963-68) spent much of his twenties in South America and Spain. He worked for two decades as a broadcaster with BBC World Service radio, winning two UN awards and becoming Chief Producer, Arts.
His six non-fiction books for Faber include biographies of the writer Robert Louis Stevenson and the war correspondent George L. Steer; Churchill’s Wizards, a study of camouflage, deception and black propaganda in both world wars; Ian Fleming’s Commandos, the story of a British naval intelligence unit; Defending the Rock, about Gibraltar in the Second World War; and a narrative memoir of colonial East Africa, Trapped in History: Kenya, Mau Mau and Me.
Nick is a Life Member of the National Union of Journalists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is on the board of the writers’ and illustrators’ trade union, the Society of Authors.
His talk at Shrewsbury will draw on themes from each of his books, especially propaganda and the importance of ‘good reporting.’
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