Samuel Burr
Samuel Burr studied at Westminster Film School and now works as an author and freelance TV executive. He has developed and produced popular-factual TV shows including Channel 4’s Genderquake and The Greatest Shows on Earth, BBC Two’s Eight Go Rallying and The Secret Life of Cleaners, BBC Four’s Make: Craft Britain, and the BAFTA-nominated Secret Life of 4-Year-Olds. In 2015 he was named One to Watch by the Edinburgh International Television Festival and in 2017 he became a Broadcast Hotshot. A documentary he shot inside a retirement village when he was 18 launched his career in television and inspired his internationally bestselling debut novel, The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, which has been translated into 18 foreign languages.