Prof Roger Graef, OBE's Biography

Prof Roger Graef, OBE's Professional Career

Career

writer, criminologist, producer, broadcaster and director; dir 26 plays and operas USA and two dramas for CBS TV; dir Period of Adjustment (Royal Court); co-designer London Transport Bus Map, pt/t lectr Assoc Sch of Architecture; memb Bd Govrs BFI 1975-79; memb Bd: London Transport Exec 1976-79, Channel 4 1980-85; memb Cncl: ICA 1971-83, BAFTA 1976-77, Howard League for Penal Reform; chm Study Gp for Public Involvement in Planning DOE 1975-77, fndr ICA Architectural Forum, expert memb Euro Analytical Coll of Crime Prevention 1993-97, fell Mannheim Centre of Criminology LSE, News International visiting prof of broadcast media Univ of Oxford 1999-2000, visiting prof Univ of London 2000-01; special advsr Paul Hamlyn Fndn 1999-; media columnist The Times 1992-94; numerous articles in: The Sunday Times, Times, Daily Mail, Evening Standard, The Independent, The Observer, Daily Telegraph, Mail on Sunday, The Guardian, Police Review; columnist Community Care; memb Br Soc of Criminology, pres Signals Int Tst 1991-98; tstee: Koestler Award Tst 1997-, Butler Tst 1997-2001, Grierson Award Tst 1997-, Mental Health Fndn 1998-2000; patron: RAPT, Waterville Youth Club, Grassmarket Theatre, Irene Taylor Tst, Exploring Parenthood, Voice of the Child in Care, Friends United, Crime Concern (memb Bd of Tstees 2002-03); chm: Theatre de Complicité 1991-, Book Aid 1992-93, Youth Advocate Prog 2003-; memb: Devpt Control Review (Dobry Ctee) DOE 1975-77, Ctee for Control of Demolition DOE 1976, Advsy Bd Oxford Probation Studies Unit, US/UK Fulbright Cmmn 1998-, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Cmmn 1998-2000, Ind Advsy Gp Met Police 1999-, Advsy Bd John Grieve Centre 2002-, Bd of Tstees The Photographers' Gallery 2002-06, Prince's Tst Surviving Damage in Childhood Panel; James Cameron meml lectr 2007; fell BAFTA 2004 (for lifetime achievment), fell Royal Television Soc; Television incl: The Space Between Words (BBC/KCET) 1972, A Law in the Making: Four Months Inside The Ministry (Granada) 1973, Inside The Brussels HQ (Granada) 1975, Is This the Way to Save a City? (BBC) 1976, Decision: Steel, Oil, Rates (ITV/Granada) 1976, Pleasure at Her Majesty's (Amnesty/BBC) 1977, Decision: British Communism (ITV/Granada) 1977 (RTS Award 1978), The Secret Policeman's Ball (Amnesty Int/ITV) 1978, Italy: Chain Reaction (Granada) 1979, Police (series, BBC) 1980-82 (BAFTA Award 1982, TV Critics' Circle Award, Cannes Festival European TV Award), Police: Operation Carter 1981-82, Nagging Doubt (Channel 4) 1984, Comic Relief (BBC) 1985, Maybe Baby (BBC) 1985, Closing Ranks (Zenith/Central ITV) 1987, The Secret Life of the Soviet Union (Channel 4) 1990, Turning the Screws (Channel 4) 1993, Look at the State We're In (BBC) 1995, In Search of Law and Order - UK (Channel 4) 1995, Breaking the Cycle (ITV) 1996, In Search of Law and Order - USA (PBS/Channel 4) 1997-98, Keeping it in the Family (Channel 4) 1998, Masters of the Universe (Channel 4) 1999, Race Against Crime (Channel 4) 1999, The Siege of Scotland Yard (Channel 4) 1999; exec prodr: Life After Murder (BBC) 2000, Not Black and White (Channel 4) 2001, Police (BBC) 2001, September Mourning (ITV) 2002, Rail Cops (BBC) 2003 and 2004-05, The Truth About Potters Bar? (BBC) 2003, Who Am I Now? (BBC/BBC Scotland) 2003, Care Specials (Channel Five) 2003, Malaria: Fever Road (BBC/PBS) 2004, The Protectors (BBC) 2004, Rail Cops 2 (BBC) 2004, Who Killed PC Blakelock? (BBC) 2004, Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? (BBC) 2004, Chinatown (BBC 2) 2004, Who Killed my Child? (Channel 4) 2005; series ed: Who Is? (BBC) 1967-68, Inside Europe (ITV) 1978-79, Signals (Channel 4) 1991-92, Breaking the Rules (BBC) 1998, Who's Your Father? (Channel 4) 2000, Feltham Sings! (Channel 4/Century Films) 2004 (BAFTA Award); exec prodr: Welcome to Potters Bar (BBC 1) 2004, Murder Blues (BBC 1) 2005, Who Killed My Baby (Channel 4) 2005, Classroom Chaos (Five) 2005, What Killed My Dad? (BBC 1), Panorama: What Future for Kurt? 2005, This World: Property to Die For (BBC 2) 2006, Blood and Land (BBC 2) 2006, Panorama: Rape on Trial 2006, Potters Bar - Search for the Truth (BBC 1) 2006, Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go (BBC 4) 2007, Race for the Beach (BBC 1) 2007, The Burning Season (BBC) 2007, Searching for Madeline (Channel 4) 2007, The Millionnaire and Murder Mansion (Channel 4) 2009, Panorama: May Contain Nuts (BBC 1) 2009, The Truth About Crime (BBC 1) 2009; Internet Productions Web Lives (itv.com) 2007; Radio incl: Living Dangerously (1995), The Illusion of Information (2001), Any Questions, PM, The World Tonight, Front Row, Today Programme; Film GM or Not? (corporate video) 2003

Prof Roger Graef, OBE's Publications

Books and Publications

Talking Blues - The Police in Their Own Words (1989), Living Dangerously - Young Offenders in Their Own Words (1993), Why Restorative Justice? (2000)

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