Broadcasting

Tom has written and presented many series and one-off documentaries for television and radio, including four seasons of BBC’s primetime series The Great Interior Design Challenge, BBC Radio 4’s The Design Dimension, Channel 4’s The Secret Life of Buildings, in which he looked at the effects of architecture and spaces on our brains and bodies, and BBC2’s seven-part series Saving Britain’s Past, in which Tom examined the UK’s obsession with heritage.

Tom also wrote and presented many short and full-length documentaries on architecture, cities and design for BBC television’s long-running weekly arts programme, The Culture Show as its architecture and design reporter; wrote and presented I Love Carbuncles, on postwar brutalism, for Channel 4’s The Art Show; and co-presented Channel 4’s Grand Designs: Trade Secrets, a spin-off from the popular property show.

For radio Tom has written and presented for BBC Radio 4 various one-off documentaries, such as Pevsner: Through Outsider’s Eyes (2016) and An Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (2013) on polymath Buckminster Fuller; as well as two seasons of The Design Dimension, a series on design and society.

He regularly appears on broadcast media as a design, urbanism and architecture expert. Appearances include: Channel 4 News, BBC News, BBC Radio 4 (Saturday Review, Loose Ends, Saturday Live, Front Row, Start the Week, Profile), BBC Radio 3 (Nightwaves), BBC Radio 6Music (The Lauren Laverne Show), BBC2 (The Genius of Design, Building the Dream: the 2012 Olympics, Celebrity University Challenge, Celebrity Eggheads, The Chelsea Flower Show) and Channel 5 (The Wright Stuff).