Charles Rangeley-Wilson

Education

Rangeley-Wilson studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford and taught Art for a decade before turning to writing.

Career

A broadcaster and film-maker he has written and presented for the British Broadcasting Corporation, including the critically acclaimed BBC4 film A Japanese Obsession and the BBC2 series The Accidental Angler. In 2006 The Angling Writers Association voted The Accidental Angler their Travel book of the Year and in 2011 the same organisation voted Rangeley-Wilson Travel Writer of the year and Arthur Oglesby Writer of the Year. In recent years he has worked with World Wildlife Fund United Kingdom to promote more sustainable water management in chalk rivers.

In 2011 he helped found The Norfolk Rivers Trust to promote river conservation in his home county and he is currently their Technical and Projects Advisor.

He also serves as Ambassador for The Angling Trust. Rangeley-Wilson"s most recent work, the non-fiction novel Silt Road - The Story of a Lost River (Chatto and Windus 2013) is an elegy to the English landscape, an exploration of the layers of history that make a place, told through the history of a small chalk river and the biographies of a handful of men whose lives the river shaped.

Achievements

• He is known for his writing in the periodicals The Field in the United Kingdom (in 2001 he won the Periodical Publishers Association Specialist Writer of the Year Award for his work in that magazine) and Gray"s Sporting Journal in the United States of America, as well as in newspapers such as The Times and The Daily Telegraph. In 1997 he was a founder of The Wild Trout Trust - a United Kingdom charity founded to promote grass-roots river conservation – and he is currently serving as President of that organisation.

Personality

He is a passionate conservationist with a particular interest in English chalk-streams.