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Nigel Randell spent 25 years making television programmes. He was a member of the steering committee that oversaw the birth of Channel 4 and his production of 'Walter', starring Ian MacKellen was transmitted on the channel's opening night.
Over the following 20 years he made a large number of documentary films for television exploring social, medical and political issues both here in the UK and in Africa, Russia and the Pacific. His films won 2 US Emmy's and 3 Royal Television Society Awards.
Six years ago, sensing the disintegration of the public service ethos that had sustained British television and made it the envy of the world, he gradually bowed out and read for another degree.
He now divides his time between travelling and writing and working in the UK as a consultant in the area of mental health social work.
His first book The White Headhunter was published last year by Constable in the UK and by Carrol and Graf in the USA.
Nigel Randell is currently living in Tonga completing his second book for Constable on the extraordinary life of the teenage castaway, William Mariner.
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