PETER WILLIAMS MBECurriculum Vitae

Peter Williams is Chief Executive of PETER WILLIAMS TELEVISION based in the South East of England and a supplier of factual programmes to the BBC, ITV, Channel Four and leading international broadcasters.

During a long and distinguished career, he has produced and directed documentaries on subjects as diverse as war correspondent MARTHA GELLHORN, SIR EDMUND HILLARY to mark the anniversary of his ascent of Everest, and LORD REITH, founder of the BBC.

He has recently produced and directed for the BBC what critics described as “a beautiful film” on the WWII WELLINGTON BOMBER. He is still the only television producer to have interviewed the Queen in THE QUEEN AND HER CEREMONIAL HORSES (ITV and PBS).

After ten years as a newspaper journalist, he worked for ITV and the BBC, as both reporter and producer/director. He was a reporter/producer for ITV’s THIS WEEK for 14 years, and later joined the BBC’s PANORAMA. As Controller of Factual Programmes for TVS, he was responsible for 10 years for the company’s science, finance, industry, farming, arts, religious and documentary output.

He has often specialised in programmes on wartime history, making DOODLEBUG SUMMER on Hitler’s wartime Vengeance Weapons, the V1 and V2, THE ROAD TO D-DAY, on preparations for the Allied Invasion of Europe, and SECRET ARMY, on Britain’s underground resistance in 1940 (for Meridian, LWT and the History Channel). His D-DAY - THE SHORTEST DAY, marked the 50th

anniversary of D-Day for ITV, and the 60th anniversary on The History Channel.

He has won awards at many of the world’s television festivals - New York, San Francisco, Houston and from the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union and the European Broadcast Union. His CHARLIE WING won the Royal Television Society Best Documentary award in 1990 and AMBULANCE (ITV Meridian) won the INDIES Best Regional Programme Award in 1994. He was awarded the RTS Industry Achievement Award in 2002. He is a member of the Royal Television Society and a founder member of United for Local Television (ULTV)

He was awarded the Freedom of the City of Canterbury for services to the city and county in 2001. He is a Kent Ambassador, and was awarded the MBE by the Queen, for services to the arts and television in the 2007 Birthday Honours List. He was Chairman, now President, of the Canterbury Festival for 21 years, and is Chairman of The New Marlowe Theatre Development Trust.

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