Tim Radford

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Ethnicity British–New Zealand Role Journalist Name Tim Radford		Children 2 Occupation Journalist and writer

Born 1940 New Zealand Notable credit(s) Science editor at The Guardian, 1980–2005 Education Sacred Heart College, Auckland Books The Address Book: Our Place in the Scheme of Things

Tim Radford - Interview 1997

Tim Radford (born 1940) is a British–New Zealand freelance journalist, born in New Zealand in 1940 and educated at Sacred Heart College, Auckland. At 16, he joined The New Zealand Herald as a reporter. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1961, working at first as a Whitehall information officer.

Radford worked for The Guardian newspaper for 32 years. Over the course of his career, he was letters editor, arts editor, literary editor, and science editor — holding the latter post from 1980 until 2005. He also served on the UK committee for the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. He is married with two adult children.

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Awards

Radford has won four Association of British Science Writers awards:

Lifetime achievement award for services to science journalism, 2004

Best feature on science subject in a national or regional newspaper, 2004, for Touching the Void, published in The Guardian on 22 July 2004

Best communication of science in a non-science context, 2001, for Tell us, Solly, published in the London Review of Books on 20 September 2001

Other awards in 1992 and 1997

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Tim Radford - Interview 1997

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