Stephen Walker
Stephen Walker is an award-winning documentary director and writer. With a BA in History from the University of Oxford and an MA in History of Science from Harvard University, his latest book, Beyond, draws on extensive original research and vivid eyewitness testimony to get to the heart of events that culminated in Yuri Gagarin becoming the first human to fly to space in April 1961. His previous book Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima was a New York Times bestseller, while his films have won an Emmy, a BAFTA and Europe’s most prestigious documentary award, the Prix d’Or.