Steve Nallon is a regular contributor and broadcaster on magazine shows and news programmes across the media. His specialist areas of interest include ghost tales and horror, time travel stories, comedy and satire, vocal technique, cinema and television history, and story craft. Steve has also worked as a presenter on live radio and fronted documentary features on both radio and television.
Steve presented a six-minute feature on the story tropes of time travel in film and television for NEWSNIGHT, launching both the British Film Institute’s time travel season DESTINATION TIME TRAVEL and the book of the same name he Steve co-wrote with Dick Fiddy. The publication of his recent collection of supernatural tales, STEVE NALLON’S GHOST STORIES, and his series of in-depth articles analysing the haunted house movie genre for CLASSIC MONSTERS OF THE MOVIES, led his being invited onto programmes like the Jeremy Vine Show on Radio Two to discuss all things haunted and ghostly.
For the BBC television series INSIDE OUT, Steve fronted a special feature on the SPITTING IMAGE costume designer Jackie Hallett. In fact, Steve is a regular contributor to TV shows looking back on television history, and these have included THE STORY OF LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT (BBC), THE ONE SHOW (BBC), JO BRAND’S CLASSIC COMEDY SKETCHES (C5), WHEN TV GUESTS GO HORRIBLY WRONG (C5), and COMEDY CONNECTIONS (BBC). In BRITAIN’S BEST LOVED DOUBLE ACTS for Channel Five, Steve discussed and analysed the comic technique of Hinge and Bracket, Little and Large, Laurel and Hardy, and Cissie and Ada. As well as these, Steve has made numerous appearances in various documentaries looking at the capabilities of the human voice, notably THE SECRETS OF BODY LANGUAGE for the History Channel and WHO DID YOU DO? for BBC television. Other broadcast contributor credits include SKY NEWS, TIMES RADIO, GB NEWS, and CNN. Steve is also a regular newspaper reviewer on BROADCASTING HOUSE on BBC Radio Four, and in 2023, he was a guest on John Lloyd’s BBC Radio Four series MUSEUM OF CURIOSITY.
In SIXTY YEARS OF SWING, a documentary programme for BBC Parliament looking at General Election night broadcasts, Steve talked about the contributions of anchor men and political pundits such as Robin Day and Bob McKenzie – and gave illustrations of their vocal styles along the way!
Steve has worked as a radio host on live morning and afternoon shows for Radio Leeds, in his home town. He also presented the BBC Radio Four series FAME and the Radio Two show OH YES, I’M THE GREAT PRETENDER and was a feature maker for many years on THE AFTERNOON SHIFT.
