[1] He presented BBC London's movie programme The Big Picture for three years and reviewed films[2] for the magazine Sight and Sound.

During 2017/18 he travelled across the USA for the Radio 4 series Litter From America[3] which featured "the scuffed and stained American dreams" of actor Richard Schiff, comedian Maysoon Zayid and director Kwame Kwei-Armah as their creative work and beliefs grappled with the Trump presidency.

[7] His presenting career began in the 1990s when he hosted a daily show on BBC GLR featuring live music sessions and interviews with artists such as Radiohead, The Staple Singers, Foo Fighters, Wu Tang Clan and Dr John alongside record reviews and profile interviews with authors, film makers and comedians.

[22] His TV and radio journalism about Northern Ireland include the television essays Maiden City Voyage, billed as a social and cultural audit of Derry during its City of Culture role, Slack Sabbath, a wry TV journey into how religious observance has changed since 1970's, and for BBC Radio 4 Collecting the Troubles At The Ulster Museum, the series One To One and in 2022 The Past Is a Foreign Country.

Curran wrote and presented Radio 4's documentary appreciation of John Hersey's 1946 Hiroshima article for The New Yorker magazine[25] followed by a repeat of the harrowing 1948 BBC broadcast of the entire text, which had graphically described the true aftermath and effects of atomic bomb radiation for the first time.

[26] Following the UK Govt announcement of an end to sales of new petrol and diesel engines cars by 2030, he drove a range of electric cars throughout England, Scotland and Wales for the Radio 4 series Electric Ride UK with scientists and technologists demonstrating latest developments in commercial and domestic energy storage as the series explored the potential social impact of a changing transport landscape.