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John Swinfield won the Sandford St. Martin premier award for his film Beggars in Paradise, a portrait of a worker priest in Peru, part of a series of half-hour documentaries about dispossessed peoples which he produced, directed and presented across Latin America and south east Asia. Widely published he began in newspapers as a reporter before joining ITV and the BBC.
A well-known public speaker, he is the former Radio and Television Industrial Journalist of the Year and the winner of several other broadcasting and editorial awards.
AWARDS
John Swinfield has two Royal Television Society Awards (1983 & 1995). Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
- ↑New York Needs a Dime, John Swinfield, The Listener, April 10, 1975
- ↑Icy Alaska plays coquette, ibid, May 8, 1975
- ↑Where the Wildcatters strike, ibid, June 5, 1975
- ↑Poor as a Parson, ibid, Jan 8, 1976
- ↑All Change for the Costa Lot Mora, ibid, March 18, 1976
- ↑Inside the City, William M.
Clarke, p.
He's written three books and holds an MA in Maritime History.
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Work Experience
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Summary: John Swinfield has won three Royal Television Society awards. As the Anglia TV Executive Producer of Arts & features he created several series: Marquee and First Take, commissioning independent producers; The Second Revolution, UK science; and Five Lives, about terminally ill children (Anglia/ITV).It won eventual acceptance amidst the chaos and carnage of the First World War, in which pathfinder submariners achieved an extraordinarily high tally of five Victoria Crosses, Britain’s highest military decoration. Here John Swinfield traces the history of early submarines and the personalities who built and sailed them.
PUBLICATIONS
Airship: design, development & disaster (Conway/Bloomsbury/US Naval Institute Press, 2012) Sea Devils: pioneer submariners (The History Press, 2014) Knock Down Ginger, a thriller (Peach Publishing, 2014) Legless in Polperro, a satire (Peach Publishing, 2017).
He later produced and presented a series of half-hour documentaries about Catholic worker priests and dispossessed peoples across South and Central America and south-east Asia (ITV/C4).
He attended Cambridgeshire College of Arts & Technology (now Ruskin University) and later studied an MA in Maritime History at the University of Greenwich, London.
For three years he was the editor of Artists & Illustrators, a foremost arts magazine, from which he resigned in March 07, to concentrate on writing, public speaking and media guidance for several international companies.For four years he edited the painting magazine Artists & Illustrators and wrote the Breaking Through business column for the London Evening Standard. Sea Devils brims with daring characters and their unflinching determination to make hazardous underwater voyages: an immensely readable, entertaining and authoritative chronicle of low cunning, high politics, wondrous heroism and appalling tragedy.
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17th December, 2015 in Maritime
Sea devils: Pioneer submariners
The British Admiralty was initially snooty about submarines.
In its long and perilous history the submarine became subject to fierce business, military and political shenanigans. Born George John Swinfield in Clayton, Staffordshire, to George Harry and Lily Swinfield, he has worked in print and TV journalism, written books on maritime history and published two novels.
His other titles included The Second Revolution, a series which traced Britain's change from a manufacturing to a science based economy; Five Lives, in which Swinfield talked to the parents of tragically ill children; Professionally Speaking in which he interviewed leaders of the professions.
John Swinfield served a three-year apprenticeship as a trainee reporter on a weekly paper, The Bedfordshire Times. Its battleships had ruled the world’s oceans for centuries, each in its pomp and glory the personification of empire. His documentary Weinstock of GEC won the Shell UK TV Award 1984/85 in association with BAFTA.