Adam Curtis

Adam Curtis (born 1955) is a British BAFTA winning documentarian and a writer, television producer, director and narrator. He works for BBC Current Affairs. Curtis was born in 1955. He attended the Sevenoaks School, whose fellow alumni include musicians Tom Greenhalgh and Mark White of The Mekons, along with Andy Gill and Jon King of Gang of Four. Curtis completed a Bachelor of Arts in Human Sciences at Mansfield College, University of Oxford, where he studied genetics, evolutionary biology, psychology, politics, anthropology and statistics. After graduating, Curtis was a Tutor in Politics at the University of Oxford. He left academia to make a career in television, obtaining a post on That's Life!, a programme that often placed serious...