P. G. Morgan

After a short stint on the Western Mail, Morgan joined ITN as a graduate trainee in 1989.[4] He worked as a producer for News at Ten and as a foreign affairs producer and on-screen reporter for Channel 4 News, covering stories such as the LA Riots, the Eritrean Civil War and the Troubles in Northern Ireland.[5]

During his time at Channel Four News, Morgan spent three years covering the conflict in the Former Yugoslavia, working closely with the late Gaby Rado.[6] Morgan was also part of the reporting team which won 1994 BAFTA and Amnesty International Awards for their coverage of the siege of Srebrenica.[7] During these years, Morgan also wrote regularly for The Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement,[8] the New Statesman, Index on Censorship[9] and the New Welsh Review.[10] In 1999, he returned to Oxford as a Reuters Fellow at Green Templeton College.[3]

Between 2000 and 2005, Morgan worked simultaneously for ITN and for BBC Current Affairs, writing TV scripts and producing several drama documentaries.[11] His teen drama Spit Game was nominated for a BAFTA in 2004.[12] He also wrote episodes of Doctors and The Bill and over a dozen radio dramas,[13] for which he received the Richard Imison Award (for A Matter of Interpretation)[14] and a Sony Radio Academy Award nomination (for "Milosevic in Black and White").[15]

In 2002, Morgan published Fire Mountain:[16] a non-fiction account of the 1902 volcanic eruption of Mont Pelée in Martinique.[11] The book was published by Bloomsbury in the UK and the US and was subsequently adapted for Secrets of the Dead;[17] a drama documentary series produced by National Geographic.[18] Around this time, Morgan also undertook archival research for Professor Kathy Burk's biography of the historian A.J.P. Taylor.[19]

In 2005, Morgan moved to the United States. While in the US he wrote and produced several documentaries: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (winner of the 2009 Emmy for Best Writing in Non-Fiction Programming),[20] Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic,[21] Revenge of the Electric Car[22][23] and Fantastic Lies.[24]

Morgan has also worked as a series producer on two CNN series: The Eighties[25] and The History of Comedy[26] and was a story consultant on the Beatles documentary Eight Days a Week.[27] He was an Executive Producer on Flint Town,[28] a Netflix documentary series about the police department of Flint, Michigan. In 2019, he continued his connection with Netflix by being one of the executive producers on Diagnosis, a seven-part Netflix documentary series produced in association with Scott Rudin, the New York Times and Lightbox.[29][30] In 2020, Morgan was one of the producers on LANCE, a two part feature documentary about the disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong.[31] The film premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and then debuted on ESPN in May 2020.[32]

Morgan has written several feature film scripts and a TV pilot for Anonymous Content. His feature script Dear Norman Mailer was performed at the Hay Festival in 2015 by Tatiana Maslany and Tom Cullen.[33]