Peter Paphides | |
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| Born | July 1969  |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Peter Paphides (born 1969[1] asPanayiotakis Paphides orPanayiotis Paphides) is a Britishjournalist and broadcaster.
Paphides was born inBirmingham to aGreek Cypriot father, Chris, and aGreek mother, Victoria.[2] He has an elder brother, Aki.[2] His father ran the 'Great Western' fish bar inAcocks Green, and the family lived upstairs.[2] In 1979, the family moved to the suburb ofOlton, where his father ran the 'King Fisher' (now 'George's Fish Bar').
The name Panayiotakis was shortened to "Takis", before he decided he preferred to be called Peter.[3] As a child, he had a lisp, and when he was three years old he developedselective mutism, wherein he would speak to no-one except his parents and brother.[3]
He readphilosophy at theUniversity of Wales, Lampeter.[2]
Between 2005 and 2010 he was employed as the chiefrockcritic ofThe Times and presentedThe Times' weekly musicpodcast for Sounds Music supplement.[4][5] Since then, he has worked freelance including forThe Guardian,[6]Mojo andQ magazine.[7] He has also made various documentaries forBBC Radio 4 and made a pilot forBBC 6 Music show Vinyl Revival which was later commissioned for a seven-part series, and was broadcast from 4 December 2011.[citation needed]
In 2019, Paphides launched Needle Mythology, a record label aimed at reissues of old albums that had not previously been available on vinyl.[8] In October 2020, the label released its first album of new material, In Memory of My Feelings, an original collaboration betweenThe Anchoress andBernard Butler.
Paphides has also written forMelody Maker andTime Out.[9]
In 2020 his memoir,Broken Greek, was published byQuercus.[2] The book was reviewed positively byAlan Johnson inNew Statesman, who wrote that he had "never read anything that tells the immigrant’s story with such clarity and tenderness".[10] It won the 2021RSL Christopher Bland Prize.[11]
Paphides married writer andTimes columnistCaitlin Moran on 27 December 1999; they met while both were working forMelody Maker.[12][13] The couple share a home in North London[12] and have two daughters.[13]
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