Career
King has been closely involved in the arts in Ireland since the 1970s. His roles have included that of film producer and director, music producer, musician, songwriter and radio broadcaster. As a musician, he has recorded seven albums to date.
His song "I Am Stretched on Your Grave" has been covered by Sinéad O"Connor on her album I Do Not Want What I Haven"t Got and by Dead Can Dance on their album Toward the Within.
In 1987, he set up television production company Hummingbird Productions with Nuala O"Connor and Kieran Corrigan. King produced and directed Keeping Time, a film celebrating the poet Seamus Heaney and uilleann piper Liam O"Flynn for British Broadcasting Corporation Television in 1998.
He was appointed by the Minister for the Arts John O’Donoghue to the Special Committee on the Traditional Arts in December 2003. King is the maker of acclaimed television programmes on Irish music including Other Voices which is a rock music television series for RTÉ.
He is also the series editor of the Tradition music series The Full Secretariat.
He produced a 90-minute television programme about violinist Nigel Kennedy and the Irish Chamber Orchestra, as well as a documentary on Kennedy. He produced the Irish Film & Television Award-winning film John McGahern – A Life, and produced Thomas Moore – One Faithful Harp for RTÉ television He has directed five series of Sé Mo Laoch for the TG4 television channel, documenting and archiving the lives of Ireland"s most celebrated traditional musicians.
He presents South Wind Blows on RTÉ Radio 1.
