Will Hanrahan

Will Hanrahan
Will Hanrahan at the Insight Conference 2004
Nationality	British
Occupation	Journalist, Producer

William (Will) Hanrahan is a British television/radio producer and presenter best known for working on BBC programmes such as Watchdog and Good Morning. Since 1994 he has headed an independent TV company which currently produces studio programming and documentaries for the BBC and Sky TV, A&E, Foxtel, Discovery and UKTV. He is a three-times Royal Television Society Award winner and his programmes are currently airing in over 70 countries. He has executive produced for both the BBC and ITV working with Alistair McGowan on the BBC Restoration project, and Chris Tarrant on the BBC Four History of the World in 100 objects series. He has recently executive produced a TV series with the renowned Italian criminologist, Massimo Picozzi, for the skyitalia series 'Segreti, Bugie e Omicidi, an Italian language documentary season which helped launch CI Italia. He is a law graduate with experience in consumer and legal programming. In 2013/14, Hanrahan also returned to radio presenting as a guest host on BBC Local Radio in 2014 and 2015.

In his non-broadcast work, he has been a member of the PACT National Executive on two occasions. PACT is the organisation which represents Independent TV Companies in the U.K. He has been a lay member of the Faculty of Public Health, served as a School Governor and contributed to Skillset (UK) strategic policy in the training of young people for Broadcasting in Britain.

Hanrahan's hobbies include keeping fit, Everton Football Club and supporting the Arts. He has become chair of a new Arts venue in Stratford Upon Avon, The Stratford ArtsHouse. He is an active contributor to the community of Stratford Upon Avon where he chairs Stratford Vision, a non-political group made up of businesses, local authority members and charities.

Hanrahan grew up in Bootle, an area near Liverpool, Merseyside. Educated at St. Benet's, now St. Benedicts, and St. Mary's College in Crosby.

Hanrahan trained on the Bootle Times newspaper. He subsequently embarked on a career as a radio and television journalist, presenting breakfast shows on BBC Radio York, LBC (London) and Sunday chat shows for syndicated BBC stations in the north of England, BBC Look North and for Network TV as a reporter from the Rwandan Civil War, presenting live from a refugee camp and an orphanage in Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Zaire).