Major Interviews
Crawley's major set-piece interviews with leading cultural figures before live audiences include: the Nobel laureates Seamus Heaney and Amartya Sen, the political activist Noam Chomsky, the last Irish President Mary McAleese, her predecessor Mary Robinson, politicians Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness, the writers John Banville, Edna O'Brien, Alexander McCall Smith, Michael Longley and Ian Rankin, the film-maker Ken Russell, former hostage and writer Brian Keenan, musicians Phil Coulter and Brian Kennedy, the historian Roy Foster, and the rugby legend Jack Kyle. In 2010, he launched the inaugural Belfast Media Festival, which included a keynote address by, and interview with, Sir Bob Geldof. He hosted the Belfast Media Festival again in 2011, interviewing BBC Director-General Mark Thompson, Channel 4 Chief Executive David Abraham, other leading figures from the UK media industry, and celebrities including Rob Brydon.
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