Michael Williams – Page 25 – Railway & Travel writer

Michael Williams:
author & journalist

Michael is a journalist, academic and author – writing, blogging and broadcasting on railways and the media. He is also a travel writer, having covered the world for a variety of publications. Read more…

The Trains
Now Departed

Michael Williams’s most recent book The Trains Now Departed: Sixteen excursions into the lost delights of Britain’s railways is published by Arrow Books. Find out more about Michael’s other books, including ‘On the Slow Train’, ‘On the Slow Train Again’ and ‘Steaming to Victory’.

In the company of broadcasting’s finest

November 10, 2024

THIS week I was privileged to attend the presentation of the Charles Wheeler Award, given in memory of the BBC’s greatest-ever foreign corespondent. It was a delightful occasion in which Mishal Husain of Radio 4’s Today programme (left) received the honour and Lindsey Hilsum, the intrepid International Editor of Channel 4 News, gave a talk about the challenges of reporting in a modern media landscape influenced by the complexities of social media. It was an observation from a member of […]