Michael J. Mosley

Michael J. Mosley (born 22 March 1957) is a British journalist, producer and presenter, well known for his episodes of "Inside the Human Body" featuring certain aspects of the human body and the ways in which it works.

The son of a bank director,^[1] Mosley studied philosophy, politics and economics at the New College, Oxford before working for two years as a banker in the City of London. He then decided to move into medicine, intending to become a psychiatrist, studying at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School, now part of UCL Medical School. However, he became disillusioned by psychiatry and immediately after graduating joined a trainee assistant producer scheme at the BBC.^[2]

He produced a number of science programmes, including The Human Face, three series with Professor Robert Winston, and the 2004 BBC Two engineering series Inventions That Changed the World starring Jeremy Clarkson.^[3]

He has presented 10 Things You Need to Know about Losing Weight, Blood and Guts, Medical Mavericks and The Story of Science for television, and The Making of Modern Medicine for Radio 4 and Make Me. In April–June 2010 he produced and presented the series The Story of Science: Power, Proof and Passion broadcast by BBC Two.

In 2011 he made a series entitled The Brain: A Secret History, on the history of psychology and neuroscience.

He was nominated for an Emmy and BAFTA for his Horizon documentary revealing the proposed link between Helicobacter pylori and gastric ulcers, and was named Medical Journalist of the Year in 1995 by the British Medical Association.^[2]

References

1. ^ Murfitt, Nikki (14 February 2009). "Both these men are 51, but one follows a restricted diet in the hope of staying young. Has he been wasting his time?". Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1145489/Both-men-51-follows-restricted-diet-hope-staying-young-Has-wasting-time.html. Retrieved 2011-02-12. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Beth, Chapman (27 March 2004). "From finance to medicine to the media". BMJ Careers. BMJ Group. http://careers.bmj.com/careers/advice/view-article.html?id=95. Retrieved 2011-01-11. 
3. ^ Inventions That Changed The World

He has three children - Jack(18), Daniel(16), Kate(11).

External links

• IMDB
• Profile at JLA agency

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