Beyond Contempt: The Inside Story of the Phone Hacking Trial

Peter Jukes is a dramatist, screenwriter and journalist based in London. His television credits include Waking the Dead, Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Sea of Souls and In Deep, which he also created. Included in his radio work is two series of Bad Faith, starring Lenny Henry, nominated for the Writer's Guild Award. He also writes non fiction for magazines and newspapers, including the Independent and Prospect Magazine. He covered the hacking scandal and Leveson Inquiry for Newsweek/DailyBeast and livetweeted half a million words from the subsequent trial. For this he was named Reporter of Year on Twitter and social media by the Press Gazette. He authored an earlier book about the phone hacking scandal, The Fall of the House of Murdoch.