Podcast scripts – Tim Harford: I've been ghostwriting scripts for Tim Harford's podcast Cautionary Tales since 2020 – researching, distilling ideas, and crafting narratives. Typically combining storytelling with research from social science, these scripts cover an eclectic range of topics – from the Golden Globe yacht race to Harry Houdini's fascination with the afterlife, Josiah Wedgwood's pottery and the theory of sexual selection, or the building of the Panama canal.
Previously I ghostwrote for Tim's BBC radio and podcast series 50 Things That Made The Modern Economy. These short scripts explore the origin and impacts of ideas or inventions, from the stamp to the sewing machine to the S-bend. They were also published as books: Fifty Things That Made The Modern Economy and The Next Fifty Things That Made The Modern Economy.
Books: I worked as a developmental editor on Tim Harford's other books: The Undercover Economist, The Logic Of Life, Adapt, The Undercover Economist Strikes Back, Messy, and How To Make The World Add Up / The Data Detective.
I've also worked with other authors as a consultant and developmental editor: Why We Fight by Christopher Blattman; Framers by Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger and Francis de Vericourt; The Art of Fairness and Einstein's Greatest Mistake by David Bodanis; Loonshots by Safi Bahcall; The Great Acceleration by Robert Colvile; and More Than Good Intentions by Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel.
Reports and articles: I've edited reports for organisations including the World Economic Forum (e.g. Global Risks Report), AXA (Future Risks Report), Policy Horizons Canada, the United Nations Secretary-General's High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation, the Digital Cooperation Organization (via Horizon Group), the World Bank and Oxfam. I edit articles for the journal Early Childhood Matters. I've ghosted blogs and op-eds for the Carnegie Council Artificial Intelligence & Equality Initiative and various corporate clients (via The Content Engine).