Patrick Gregory

Patrick wrote and edited An American on the Western Front together with Elizabeth Nurser, who is Arthur Clifford Kimber’s niece. Most of Patrick’s professional life has been spent in journalism, happily locked away for nearly 30 years of it inside the BBC. As a programme producer he covered world events such as the fall of the Berlin Wall and realigning of eastern Europe, the First Gulf War and the Balkans War. He then focused on UK politics as a news editor at Westminster, working his way up to becoming Managing Editor of the BBC’s Political Programmes department. He also produced a number of politics and history documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service on the way.

Since leaving in 2013 – and over and above his work on An Americ

Patrick wrote and edited An American on the Western Front together with Elizabeth Nurser, who is Arthur Clifford Kimber’s niece. Most of Patrick’s professional life has been spent in journalism, happily locked away for nearly 30 years of it inside the BBC. As a programme producer he covered world events such as the fall of the Berlin Wall and realigning of eastern Europe, the First Gulf War and the Balkans War. He then focused on UK politics as a news editor at Westminster, working his way up to becoming Managing Editor of the BBC’s Political Programmes department. He also produced a number of politics and history documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service on the way.

Since leaving in 2013 – and over and above his work on An American on the Western Front – he has also turned his hand to journalism tuition aimed at democracy-strengthening in the Asia-Pacific area, in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme and UK High Commissions in the region.

Away from his keyboard (embarrassingly he’s still a two-fingered typist after all these years) his happiest times are spent with friends and family, cooking, reading, watching his beloved Manchester United Football Club and cycling. Though he wishes to stress that in terms of cycling, he likes to avoid hills. Give him long and flat distances and he’s very happy.

Meanwhile, his co-author Elizabeth. Born in California, Elizabeth came to Britain as a Fulbright History scholar at Cambridge in the 1950s, where she settled with her husband and growing family. She went on to become a copy editor for Cambridge University Press and an editor with both Melbourne University Press and Faber & Faber, before establishing her own desktop publishing business in the UK specialising in local history. She is the co-editor, with J.A. La Nauze, of Walter Murdoch and Alfred Deakin on Books and Men: Letters and Comments, 1900-1918. Rather happily for Patrick, Elizabeth is his mother-in-law.