Radio Presenter
On radio, he presents BBC Radio Ulster's weekly Sunday Sequence programme and is part of the presenting team for Radio 4's Sunday. He also presents The Book Programme, a literary review programme, for Radio Ulster. Crawley's special edition of Sunday Sequence from Cape Town won the Andrew Cross Award for UK speech radio programme of the year. His other regular radio presenting roles include: Talk Back, BBC Radio Ulster's daily news and current affairs programme; Evening Extra, the station's drive-time news programme and Arts Extra, a daily arts review programme. Previous radio programmes include: The Bonfire Makers (for BBC Radio Four), an examination of Northern Ireland's controversial annual loyalist bonfire tradition, and documentaries about George Bernard Shaw and the controversial Hugh Lane paintings for BBC Radio Three.
On 22 May 2009, the Hollywood screen legend Tony Curtis had to apologise to the BBC radio audience after he used three swear words in a six-minute interview with William Crawley on the BBC's Talk Back programme. William Crawley also apologised to the audience for 'that little bit of Holywood realism'. Curtis explained that he had forgotten that the interview was live.
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