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Great storytelling. Powerful and moving tales. That's what interests me. Over the past 20 years, my stories have taken me from the refugee camps of the former Yugoslavia, to civil war in Kurdistan, the kung fu masters of south-eastern China to South African townships. My clients have included titles as varied as The Guardian, The Observer Magazine, The (London) Times Magazine, The Telegraph Magazine, The Mail on Sunday, The Express, Mother Jones, The New York Times Magazine, The Globe & Mail, The Irish Times, The Scotsman, The South China Morning Post, The Weekend Australian, WIRED, Esquire, Shortlist and GQ. I'm also, at times, an author and ghostwriter, reviewer, consultant TV producer and communications consultant for various non-profit groups, as well as guest lecturer. I was previously one of the editors at the Royal Geographical Society magazine, Geographical. Inspiration: The inspiration for my writing and journalism came from a massive backpacking adventure I began in 1990. I worked for several months on a kibbutz in Israel, surviving an assault by visiting British mercenaries on their way to the Lebanon; travelled into the Occupied Territories; sailed down the Nile in a hired felucca boat, piloted by a one-eyed captain; hitched across Jordan in a VW van and camped with the Bedouin in the desert. I then entered the oil kingdom of Kuwait and worked for a short time as an English teacher, leaving the country just before the invasion by Saddam Hussein. After backpacking and driving around parts of Indonesia, my path took me to various dead-end jobs in Australia (where I was famously turned down by McDonalds); then to a turbulent three months in The Philippines, before moving into Hong Kong, Macau and China; finally arriving back in Europe, and France, where I worked as an English teacher. Awards: My work won me a Special Commendation award from the International Federation of Journalists in 1999, after my first piece on neo-nazi gang Combat 18 was published in The Independent On Sunday Review. In 2005 I was also longlisted for the Paul Foot Award for Campaigning Journalism, sponsored by Private Eye magazine and The Guardian. Books: HOMELAND, my first book, tackles the rise of the extreme right in a unique, sometimes disturbing, adventure/odyssey which has been compared to George Orwell's work. Adventure, travel and extremism, all rolled into one. You won't have read anything else like it. Find out more here.
My work for HOMELAND led to my involvement as creative producer on the BBC1 drama, England Expects, over three-and-a-half years. I have also acted as a consultant producer on a variety of TV projects, including several BBC documentaries, regional ITV documentaries, and consulted for the Sky One series "Ross Kemp on Gangs".
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Nick Ryan description on United Agents website.
TV Consultant Producing • Sky 1: 'Ross Kemp on Gangs'
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