Tim Marshall was Foreign Editor and foreign correspondent at Sky News and foreign correspodent at Sky News and has more than thirty years' experience in reporting and writing about international news.
He translates his political analyses of world affairs into terms that appeal to all audiences - a skill which has contributed to his best known book - 'Prisoners of Geography' being translated into more than 30 languages and selling over 3 million copies. His first book, Shadowplay: The Overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic, continues to be one of the most hidhly regarded accounts of that period, while his second, “Dirty Northern B*st*rds!” and Other Tales from Terraces: The Story of Britain's Football Chants', was published in 2014 to widespread acclaim.
Originally hailing from Leeds, Tim arrived at broadcasting from the road less travelled. Neither a media studies nor journalism graduate, i fact not a graduate at all, he worked his way through newsroom nightshifts, and unpaid stints as a researcher and runner to the news producers. By demonstrating competence , drive, determination and good judgement, he eventually secured himself a foothold on the first rung of the career ladder.
After three years as IRN's Paris correspondent and carrying out extenseive work for BBC radio and TV, Tim joined Sky News. Reporting from Europe, the USA and Asia. He has covered 12 conflicts including those in Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Gaza, Libya and Syria.
During his career, Tim has been shot with bird pellet in Cairo, hit over the head with a plank of wood in London, bruised by the police in Tehran, arrested by Serbian intelligence, detained in Damascus, declared persona non grata in Croatia, bombed by the RAF in Belgrade, and tear-gassed all over the world.
He stresses, however, that none of this compares with the experience of going to see his beloved Leeds United away at Millwall FC in London.