About the Author

Roger Cook was raised in Australia and came to the UK in 1968. In his extraordinary broadcasting career, he has won eleven major national and international awards, culminating in a BAFTA (British Academy Award) given ‘in recognition of twenty-five years of outstanding quality investigative reporting’. For the past decade he has been Visiting Professor to the Centre for Broadcasting and Journalism at Nottingham Trent University, which recently made him an Honorary Doctor of Letters for services to journalism. He lives in the West Country with his wife and daughter.

About the Book

‘Most journalists report the news, but few can claim to make the news – and Roger Cook is one of those. His programmes have changed the face of investigative journalism. Throughout a long career of exposing chicanery and righting wrongs, I have been amazed at how well he has done it. For that, he has earned the respect of us all.’

Sir Trevor McDonald

‘There can be no reporter who has so often attracted the ire – and the violence – of the villains, conmen and other criminals he has investigated. Cook tells the fascinating story of his life and work well.’

Publishing News

‘The Cook Report was a brave and ground-breaking series. The ‘Terror in the Skies’ programme in particular was an extraordinary foretelling of an avoidable disaster. As with Lockerbie before it, had the authorities taken proper notice of the available warnings, 9/11 could possibly have been prevented.’

Dr. Jim Swire, spokesman for relatives of the victims of the Lockerbie disaster

‘Checkpoint and The Cook Report established Roger Cook as the leading investigative broadcaster in Britain. Indeed, I doubt whether he has an equivalent in any other country. He has been widely recognized for his fine and fearless reportage, and led the way for a whole new genre of investigative broadcasting.’

Richard Wade, Former Head of Radio 4

‘The programme (on paramilitary extortionists) was brave, skilfully made and compelling – all in all, an exceptional example of public service broadcasting.’

Lord Justice O’Donnell