Rhodri Talfan Davies, BBC Director, Nations
in Conversation with William Crawley
Sponsored by Belfast Media Festival
Location: Downstairs Theatre
Time: Thursday 17th November, 1pm
Rhodri Talfan Davies
Director of Nations, BBC
Rhodri Talfan Davies is the BBC Director of Nations and sits on the BBC’s Executive Committee.
Appointed to the role in January 2021, Rhodri leads the BBC’s work serving nations and local audiences across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The BBC Nations division is one of the largest in the organisation and produces a range of content across TV, radio and online for audiences in the nations, across the whole of the UK and globally. He leads the teams responsible for the UK’s biggest news show, the regional BBC One 6.30pm programmes, and a network of local and nations radio stations reaching almost 9m listeners across the UK.
William Crawley
Broadcaster & Journalist
William Crawley is a journalist and broadcaster with the BBC presenting TV and radio programmes on subjects as varied as news and politics, arts and science, and religion and ethics. He hosts the daily radio current affairs programme Talkback for BBC Radio Ulster, Sunday on BBC Radio 4, and regularly writes and presents documentaries for BBC Radio 3 and the BBC World Service.
His television work includes the landmark natural history series Blueprint, the interview series William Crawley Meets, a three-part autobiographical series documenting life in Northern Ireland (Sorry For Your Trouble, Dying For A Drink, and Losing Our Religion), Independent People: The Story of Ulster’s Presbyterians, and the 15-part global history of immigration Brave New World. Educated in Belfast and Princeton, he is a recipient of the Eisenhower Fellowship; in 2012 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Literature (D.Lit.) degree by Queen’s University Belfast for “exceptional services to broadcasting”; and in 2019 was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.
