Robert Cockburn is a Sydney writer, journalist and program maker. He reported variously for BBC, The Observer, The Guardian and Financial Times in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq and Asia. He was Australia correspondent for BBC and London Times. He has contributed to The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Daily Telegraph, SBS and ABC. His films are for National Geographic and Journeyman Pictures UK. He is an investigative reporter and a lead writer for the Public Library of Science Medicine. He is a drama writer fr NIDA and has worked for the Sydney Theatre Company. His work site is: tracproductions.com