Oliver is a critically acclaimed, independent broadcast journalist. Initially more Homer Simpson than John Simpson, Oliver cut his teeth as a one-man band guerrilla video-journalist, heading to corners of the world where others didn’t want to go. There was usually good reason why no one else wanted to go to these parts of the world, but sadly he was often too stupid to realise why he often found himself alone. Because he could rarely find anyone impaired enough to join him, he learnt to do everything – to shoot, write, report, produce and/or direct.Oliver specialises in international investigative reports, finding and reporting on stories that often don’t make the headlines, but remain important for the world to know.

Oliver combines his expeditioning experience and errors to go places and report on the unreported - whether its from the jungle HQ of the Kachin Independence Army in Northern Burma, or heading deep into the Sahara to find evidence of ongoing chattel slavery or even filming in Al Qaeda gun-markets - it’s at these places for some reason, currently unknown to others, that Oliver seems to be at most effective. At home in the UK, Oliver is largely ineffective.

Oliver’s reports have featured on a smogasbord of channels, from the BBC to Channel 4, from ABC to Al Jazeera. Whislt working for ABC News he briefly managed their Asia operations from the regional HQ in Beijing. He’s been lucky enough to be a finalist in the Livingstone Awards for Young Journalists, and nominated for Emmys and Overseas Press Awards but has yet to win anything. Oliver runs his own production company Red Space with offices in London and Beijing. Please follow the links to see some examples of his work:

China Series
Sami: Last of the Reindeer Herders
Burma: Pillaging Paradise & Armed Ethnic Insurgent Groups
The San Story: The Indigenous People of the Kalahari
Masters & Slaves (Niger & Mauritania)
World Cup 2010: The Power of Football
Highway 15: Kingdom at the Crossroads: Saudi & Yemen