Phil Craig is a best selling author and multiple-award-winning film-maker, producer and TV network executive.A former RAF cadet pilot, Phil studied history at Cambridge University, was a BBC graduate trainee and built his career working for iconic British current affairs series World in Action and Panorama, where he became senior producer. Later he became joint head of programmes at the prestigious Brook Lapping production company, where he made a range of contemporary and historical films for the BBC, Channel Four, PBS in America, Discovery, Nat Geo and numerous other international clients. He went on to run departments at the Discovery Channel and at ABC Television in Australia, where he supervised the entire factual output of the national broadcaster including its high profile ANZAC centenary project in 2015. Throughout his TV and writing career Phil has spent many years researching and reinterpreting the story of Britain and its Empire during the Second World War, including his definitive and bestselling account of 1940 – Finest Hour. His account of the battle of Trafalgar – Trafalgar: the Men, the Battle, the Storm – was nominated for the Mountbatten Maritime Prize and his biography of Diana, Princess of Wales – Diana: Story of a Princess – was a bestseller in both the UK and USA.His latest book 1945:The Reckoning was published by Hodder and Stoughton in April 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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