[5] Based on his BBC documentary Waiting for Harvey, it was described by The Guardian as “entertaining and hilarious.” Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima (2005) his second book, tells the story of the three months before the dropping of the atomic bomb in August 1945.
The screenwriter is John Collee, who also wrote the Oscar-nominated Peter Weir movie Master and Commander, starring Russell Crowe.
A key scene from the movie where the late octogenarian Fred Knittle sings Coldplay's "Fix You" has had 2.8 million hits on YouTube.
[15] Stephen Walker was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Worcester College, Oxford, where he gained a BA in modern history.
He subsequently won a John Lounsbery Fellowship to study as a postgraduate at Harvard University, receiving a master's degree in philosophy and history of science, before joining the BBC.