NICHOLAS BOOTH is a writer and broadcaster with unique experience across all media and wide-ranging interests. A journalist for twenty years, Nick is the author of Zigzag – The Incredible Wartime Exploits of Double Agent Eddie Chapman (Portrait, 2007).

Nick spent more than ten years in newspapers. For many years, he was a writer for The Observer and in 1995 worked for a global news agency prior to joining The Times the following year as a technology editor. From March 1996 to October 1999, he was Deputy Editor of the Interface section of The Times, the weekly internet section of the newspaper.

Nicholas Booth has been a regular broadcaster and has presented on both television and radio. In 1997, he presented The End Of The World? for BBC-2 about environmental overkill and most recently contributed to Apocalypse Now…And Then for BBC-4. He has also been a regular commentator on GMTV, Sky News and BBC World and most recently has guested on the Radio 4 quiz Inspirations. Nick has also been a consultant to a number of radio and television series, also having written scripts and treatments for promotional and corporate videos. He is currently adapting Zigzag for the screen.

Nick is also a consultant to a number of companies in the field of communications and is a partner in Total Communication, a training company. Uniquely, he has senior editorial experience across all media - radio, television, internet, intranet, print and next-generation mobile. He was most recently Editor-in-Chief for Three Mobile, the third generation mobile company where he was responsible for defining the look and feel of all content on the next generation of mobile devices, working with the BBC to scope and build a production facility. Prior to that, Nick was Managing Editor for Granada Media’s various online activities and launched G-WIZZ, billed as the world’s first “Entertainment Service Provider” which recreated a unique televisual experience on the web.
Nicholas Booth was born in Cheshire in 1964 and lives between there and London.

TALKING POINTS

• Originally, Nick wanted to be an astronomer. A graduate of London University, he is the youngest Briton to have worked for the U.S. space agency, NASA, and has worked as a PR consultant to the European Space Agency.
  

• Nick has been fascinated by the Eddie Chapman story since he was a kid. “I saw Triple Cross on television when I was about ten,” he says. “For years, I wondered ‘What was that film with all those Bond actors in it?”

• Nick is also a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and began his career at Astronomy Now magazine. His ambition was to be the first human being to land on Mars but now he is happy to let other, slimmer people perform the task.