He has worked as a foreign correspondent for The Times and The Daily Telegraph, reporting from more than 70 countries, and has written and broadcast programmes for television and radio.
[1] He has broadcast from the National Library of Wales[2] and gave the Machynlleth Festival's Hallstatt Lecture in 1999.
[3] Fishlock writes books about the people and places he has encountered while working abroad and at home, covering politics, history, biography and society.
[4] His book India File (1987) was in The Daily Telegraph's Michael Kerr's list of his top ten travel books in 2011 and about which he said that while it was first published “… in 1983, and could hardly be said to be up to the minute, but its 200 pages still make for a great primer in what can initially be an overwhelming country.”[5] A Gift of Sunlight tells the story of the Davies sisters who collected paintings and bequeathed them to the Welsh nation.
Fishlock presented a BBC documentary about the sisters, broadcast in May 2014,[6] and gave a talk about the book at Swansea’s National Waterfront Museum in 2015.