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'''William Crawley''', [[Royal Irish Academy|MRIA]], is a Belfast-born [[BBC]] [[journalist]] and [[News presenter|broadcaster]]. He is the presenter of ''Talkback'', a daily radio programme on [[BBC Radio Ulster]], and he is a presenter of ''[[Sunday (radio programme)|Sunday]]'' on [[BBC Radio 4]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = Sunday - Presenters - BBC Radio 4|url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3chNJx3CjGTSzgQKS0F6x8w/presenters|website = BBC|accessdate = 2015-09-16}}</ref> He has also made several television series for [[BBC Northern Ireland]].

==Early life==

'''William Crawley''' is a [[journalist]] and [[radio]] and [[television]] presenter with [[BBC Northern Ireland]]. Born and raised in north [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]], he is the youngest member of a family of seven. He was educated in [[Belfast]] and [[Princeton University|Princeton]], [[New Jersey]], and holds a [[Ph.D.]] in philosophy.

William Hugh Galloway Crawley was born and raised in North [[Belfast]]. He was educated at Grove Primary School, [[Castle High School, Belfast|Dunlambert Secondary School]], [[Belfast Royal Academy]] and [[Queen's University Belfast|Queen's University]], where he studied [[Philosophy]] (B.A., M.Phil.). He read [[Theology]] (M.Div.) at [[Princeton Theological Seminary]]. In 1999 Crawley was awarded a [[PhD]] by Queen's for a thesis on the epistemology of the American philosopher [[Alvin Plantinga]].<ref>{{cite thesis |last1=Crawley |first1=William Hugh Galloway |title=Faith and warrant : a study of Alvin Plantinga's epistemology of religious belief. (PhD dissertation) |date=1999 |publisher=Queen's University |___location=Belfast |url=https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.287403 |access-date=3 June 2022|type=Ph.D }}</ref>

Prior to his career in the media, Crawley worked as a university lecturer in Philosophy and Theology. Having been licensed, then subsequently ordained into the ministry of the [[Presbyterian Church in Ireland]] in the mid-1990s, he worked as assistant minister in First Presbyterian Church, New York City, and Fisherwick Presbyterian Church, Belfast, before serving as [[Presbyterian]] chaplain at the [[University of Ulster]]. He later resigned from the ordained ministry and from membership of the church before beginning his career as a journalist. He has described himself as "a lapsed Protestant."<ref>Crawley, William; ''Malachi O'Doherty's Empty Pulpits'', [https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2008/09/malachi_odohertys_empty_pulpit.html#more Will & Testament Blog, 24 September 2008]</ref>

== Radio Broadcasting ==

Since [[2002]], he has presented the [[BBC Radio Ulster]]'s [[Sunday Sequence]] programme. He has interviewed the [[President of Ireland]], presented a special edition of the programme from [[Ground Zero]] in [[New York City]], and cross-examined local and international commentators on subjects as varied as the future of religion in [[Ireland]] and the [[ethics]] of the [[human genome project]]. His other radio presenting roles include [[''Talk Back'']], BBC Radio Ulster's flagship news and current affairs programme, ''A Sky Full of Voices'', a series of six programmes examining the BBC's contribution to life in [[Northern Ireland]], ''The Land'', a six-part documentary series on how the people here relate to the land they inhabit, ''The Book Programme'', which does what it says on the tin, and, for [[BBC Radio 4]], ''The Bonfire Makers'', which investigated Northern Ireland's controversial annual [[Loyalist]] bonfire tradition. (Source: BBC Northern Ireland)

== Television Broadcasting programmes==

* ''Blueprint NI'', a three-part series examining Ireland's natural history, first broadcast in 2008.

* ''Frozen North'' ([[BBC One]] NI), presenter, documentary examining the possible future impact of [[global warming]] on NI.

* The late-night television interview show, ''William Crawley Meets...'', a series of 30 minutes in duration with leading thinkers and social reformers from across the world, including the philosopher [[Peter Singer]], the scientist [[Richard Dawkins]], the writer and broadcaster [[Melvyn Bragg]], and the gay bishop [[Gene Robinson]].

* ''Festival Nights'' ([[BBC Two]] NI), presenter, television coverage of the 2005 [[Belfast Festival at Queens]].

* ''Frozen North'' ([[BBC One Northern Ireland|BBC One]], NI2008), presenter,a documentary examining the possible future impact of [[global warming]] on NI.

* ''What's Wrong With ...?"'' ([[BBC One]] NI), presenter, round-table discussion programme considering social and moral issues.

* ''Festival Nights'' ([[BBC Two Northern Ireland|BBC Two]] NI), presenter, television coverage of the 2005, 2006 and 2007 [[Belfast Festival at Queens]].

* ''More Than Meets The Eye'' ([[BBC Two]] NI), presenter, 4-part series about folklore in Ireland.

* [[Hearts and Minds (BBC)|''Hearts and Minds'']]'','' a Northern Ireland politics programme.

* ''What's Wrong With ...?"'' ([[BBC One]] NI), presenter,a six-part round-table current affairs discussion programme considering social and moral issues.

* ''More Than Meets The Eye'' ([[BBC Two]], NI2008), presenter, 4-parta series aboutinvestigating folklore in contemporary Ireland.

* He anchored the BBC's live coverage of the Queen's official visit to Northern Ireland in 2008.

* In 2010, he presented an episode of ''Spotlight'' ([[BBC One Northern Ireland|BBC One NI]]) concerning the Vatican.

* In 2012, he wrote and presented a 60-minute documentary exploring the history of the Ulster Covenant.

* In 2013, his series ''An Independent People'' examined the history of Ireland's Presbyterians.

* His 2013 one-hour documentary ''It's a Blas'' followed his year-long effort to learn Irish sufficiently well to present a live [[Blas (Radio Ulster)|radio programme in the language]].

* The 2013 programme ''The Man Who Shrank The World'' told the story of the engineering feat carried out by the scientist Lord Kelvin in the creation of a transatlantic communications cable was made as part of the ''Groundbreakers'' series for BBC Four.

* His 2014 four-part series for [[BBC Two Northern Ireland]], ''It's a Brave New World -- New Zealand'', examined the links between Northern Ireland and New Zealand.

* 2015 Brave New World: USA (4 part series).

* 2016 Brave New World: Australia (4 part series).

* 2017 Brave New World: Canada (4 part series).

* 2018 Brave New World: Bringing It Home (1 episode).

* 2019 Spend It Like Stormont.

== Radio Broadcastingprogrammes ==

==External links==

* He presented ''[[Sunday Sequence (BBC Radio Ulster)|Sunday Sequence]]'' on [[BBC Radio Ulster]] from 2002 to 2014.

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/religion/sundaysequence/ BBC Sunday Sequence website]

* Since 2008, he has presented ''[[Sunday (radio programme)|Sunday]]'' on BBC Radio 4.

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/ BBC Northern Ireland website]

* He has presented the daily radio phone-in show ''Talkback'' on [[BBC Radio Ulster]] since 2015.

* He has presented Radio 4's Beyond Belief and The Moral Maze.

==Awards and memberships==

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* Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts ([[FRSA]]).

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* Fellow of the [[British-American Project]].

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* Recipient of Eisenhower Fellowship (2012).

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* Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Lit.), [[Queen's University Belfast]], 2012, for services to broadcasting.

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* Andrew Cross Award for Speech Broadcaster of the Year 2006, and other programme content awards.

* Thinker and Explainer of the Year, Slugger O'Toole/Channel 4 Political Awards 2011.

* Aisling Award, 2013, for contribution to Irish language broadcasting.

* Patron, [[Belfast Film Festival]].

* Member of advisory board of ''Irish Pages: A Journal of Contemporary Writing''.

* 2015 Royal Television Society Documentary Award for Brave New World: New Zealand.

* Member of the [[Royal Irish Academy]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ria.ie/ga/node/98096 |title=27 New Members elected to the Academy |work=Royal Irish Academy |date=24 May 2019 |access-date=27 Nov 2021 |archive-date=11 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230111115940/https://www.ria.ie/ga/node/98096 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

*2022 IMRO Speech Broadcaster of the Year (Gold Award).

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