William Miller Email and Phone Number

In 2021 Raconteur branched out into radio and podcast production with the company's first show presented and written by William for BBC Radio 4's Archive On Four

In 2015 I set up Raconteur as both programme development business and consultancy to help talent, creatives and broadcasters develop and manage ideas and creative IP. Raconteur has also been a vehicle for my own creative writing and ideas. At the launch of the company I secured a first look deal with BBC Worldwide for the development of ambitious, big, break-out and formattable TV shows which can be licensed to third party production companies.

Between developing TV shows I spent early mornings and late nights in 2017/18 writing a memoir about growing up in a street and community in London. Gloucester Crescent: Me, my Dad and other Grown-ups was published by Profile Books and came out in August 2018 • Reviewed in every national newspaper in the UK• Serialised in both the Observer and Daily Mail• Made the top ten best-selling biographies list in October 2018• Short listed for the Penn Ackerley Memoir award• Adapted for one man show for Edinburgh Fringe for 2021/2

Having established a reputation for creating IP and brands around talent I was brought into BBC Worldwide to set up and run a new talent-focused IP development and strategy division called Talent Ventures. Through the Talent Ventures business, I was able to provide well-known on-screen talent both in the UK and internationally with a dynamic and entrepreneurial partner in BBCW to help build their IP, brands and production businesses. Some of my key achievements in this role have been:• Set up Kirstie Allsopp & Phil Spencer’s indie, Raise the Roof – now one of Scotland’s biggest indies. Secured an investment of £350k for the company and in first four years generated £6m of rights revenue for BBC Worldwide.• Responsible for substantially increasing BBC Worldwide’s lifestyle catalogue by securing high profile talent to the company.• Brought key lifestyle talent to the BBC’s Features production division in Bristol. These deals stopped the department being closed down and instead turned it into one of the most successful and prolific lifestyle production businesses in the UK.• Helped secure funding for Miranda Hart and David Walliams production company, King Bert, which in turn kept the distribution of their shows at BBC Worldwide• Played a key role in keeping Louis Theroux at the BBC and in turn securing him to the BBC’s in-house production• Helped raise funding for Louis Theroux’s first theatrically released feature documentary• Put together the deal to stop Brian Cox leaving the BBC• Turned the children’s natural history show Deadly Sixty into a leading commercial brand for BBC Worldwide and secured Steve Backshall to the Natural History Unit• Helped secure the distribution. merchandising and licensing of Bake Off to BBC Worldwide• Helped BBCW Australia to market a substantial lifestyle catalogue and boosted the range of programming and talent available to the catalogue• Helped win the Australia Bake-Off commission with Foxtel

in April 2006 the retail design studio NY-Lon Design, acquired 50% of Miller & Co and it became Miller Sacher Associates. Through a major contract with the global retail logistics company, Li & Fung, the company expanding its work in IP, brand and product development working with retailers around the world.• Created and launched a number of substantial homewares ranges for both John Lewis and Debenhams• Created and launched homewares ranges for both Cost Co and Athropologie in the USA• Created and launched homewares range for Target Australia

Having become Nigella Lawson’s business partner and manager I set-up Pabulum Media as a vehicle to build her brand and manage her intellectual property rights around the world. In doing this I was responsible for:• Securing and setting the path for the first ever exclusive IP and Production deal for an onscreen talent with a UK broadcaster. This model set the trend for other talent like Jamie Oliver to Gordon Ramsay.• Through Pabulum I was able to transform Nigella Lawson from TV presenter for hire to high profile and hugely successful brand and IP business• Having helped establish Nigella Lawson as an international TV star I masterminded the creation of her global retail brand and licensing business Living Kitchen• Within 18 months of its launch Living Kitchen became the best selling celebrity fronted retail brand in the UK

At the same time as running Pabulum Media, I was appointed spokesperson and head of communications for Charles Saatchi and the new Saatchi Gallery during its move to and launch at County Hall on the South Bank. • Responsible for the PR and marketing for the high-profile launch of the Gallery, which resulted in it being the biggest arts event in London in 2003.• Secured and managed the exclusive media relationship with Observer newspaper• Successfully made sure the Saatchi Gallery launch was on the front cover of every national newspaper in the UK• Managed the gallery’s relationship with BBC art strand Imagine

Responsible for all Conde Nast’s UK on-line activities, which included re-launching the award-winning site Vogue.com in addition to launching GQ.com, CNTraveller.co.uk and Glamour.com

Uden Associates was one of the UK's leading factual independent production companies. At it's peak the company employed 100 staff and produced programmes for strands like Equinox, Horizon, 40 Minutes, Cutting Edge and QED. It also produced landmark series like White Heat, Classic (Cars, Trucks, Planes etc), Opera Works and the Long Summer to name a few. On the corporate side it produced films for Shell, BNFL, the Post Office and ran the Ford Motor Company's internal television network FCN.In my ten years as managing director I:• Built the company into one of the top ten UK broadcast independents • One of the top three corporate production companies in Europe. • I expanded and re-organised the company to diversify its output into music, arts, youth and consumer programming• Increased its turnover from £1.5m to £7m• Took the company from 15 staff to 100• Established the first proper staff training scheme within a UK Indie

With almost a hundred broadcast credits as a production manager and at the age of 24, William left Uden Associates and founded his own company which provided business start up consultancy, production management and film budgeting to a rapidly expanding independent production sector.

Started as a production trainee/researcher at Uden Associates at the age of 19. Within a year he started producing, writing and directing corporate films including an award winning series of animated technical films for the Ford Motor Company. By 1985 William was made production manager for the company going on to be Head of Production a year later. In this role he managed all of the company’s broadcast and corporate output. As well as dealing with all suppliers from laboratories to film crew, editors and of course the unions, William was also responsible for drawing up and negotiating all the production contracts and budgets with the broadcasters at a time when their working with Independents was still very new.