Jason Barlow

Jason Barlow is a motoring journalist and broadcaster from Northern Ireland He began his television career in 1998 when he was approached to present Channel Fours new car programme Driven with copresenters Mike Brewer and James May In 2000 he was personally approached by the thencontroller of BBC2 to present Top Gear and he went on to front 53 editions of the programme prior to its relaunch in 2002 with Jeremy Clarkson Still under contract to the BBC he presented BBC2s motoring programme Wrong Car Right Car from 2002 to 2003 More recently he has presented several editions of Channel 4s awardwinning Dispatches a behindthescenes documentary for Sky One and Sky Movies on the making of Danny Boyles 2006 scifi thriller Sunshine interviewed film director David Lynch for Baftas David Lean lecture in 2007 presented TVs Greatest Cars and Movies Greatest Cars for Sky One and fronted The Big New Preview Show for Sky Barlow is editoratlarge for BBC Top Gear magazine a longstanding contributing editor to Britains GQ magazine and writes regularly for The Sunday Times His work is widely syndicated around the world He has also written for The Times The Guardian and The Independent and was nominated for a British Press Award for his Daily Telegraph column in 2003 He has also undertaken consultancy and corporate work for a variety of bluechip clients including TAG Heuer Barclays Bank Microsoft Sony Kaupthing BMW Mini Ferrari Peugeot Honda and Johnnie Walker He has a law degree from the University of Manchester and a postgraduate diploma in journalism studies from the University of Cardiff He is married and lives with his daughter and son in Essex