David brings to his media work a wealth of experience and hard won practical knowledge following thanks for a career which has incorporated, in addition to academic lecturing and research many aspects of authorship and journalism.

After starting out as a medical student David switched to photography and film, training at the University of Westminster before moving to Paris to work as a freelance photojournalist. His work was soon appearing in such internationally respected magazines as Paris Match, Stern and Life as well as in the European and British daily press. In 1969 he was appointed a director and contributing features editor at Features International, a Fleet Street based syndication service. His articles were published world wide in newspapers and magazines ranging from the Jamaican Gleaner to the Halifax Courier and the Western Morning Press to the Times of Malta.

David’s interest in the oceans led him to train as a SCUBA diver and take courses in marine archaeology and he participated in several expeditions in which he was able to combine his professional training in film and photograph with this new interest.

A growing interest in modern history led him to write a large number of articles ranging from the Siege of Stalingrad to the rise of the Nazi Party for magazines including International History, Modern History and The Criminologist. Most recently he published The Man Who Invented Hitler a best selling and acclaimed biography of Dr Edmund Forster, Hitler’s World War One psychiatrist.

He also acted as a consultant to a number of television companies preparing documentaries relating to the first and second world wars. An interest in Intelligence and subversion similarly led him to research the growth of such organisations as the KGB, CIA and MI6. On TV he has presented educational programmes for the BBC and Independent companies, such as the highly acclaimed Colour Eye and Work is a Four Letter Word with Danny Baker.

For four years he presented Sporting Partnerships, a Radio 5 live series that won a prestigious Sony award. During this series he was able to conduct in depth interviews with such sporting legends as Colin Montgomery, Nick Faldo, Jonah Lomu, Jonathan Edwards, Steve Backley, Mark Foster, Colin Redgrave, Colin Jackson and Jacques Villeneuve.

Of this series one reviewer commented: “Best of the features has been Dr David Lewis’s Sporting Partnership, a kind of In the Psychiatrist’s Chair without the tears.Lewis believes that “all sports are played on a six-inch playing field, the space in the athlete’s head” and that it is there the matches are won and lost”: Lyn Gardner Guardian.