Christopher Meyer

==Broadcasting==
Meyer presented several television and radio documentaries on diplomacy for the BBC, including ''Mortgaged to the Yanks'' ([[BBC Two]]/[[BBC Four]] 2006),<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC Four – Mortgaged to the Yanks |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074t7p |website=BBC |access-date=30 July 2022 |date=22 January 2007}}</ref> ''Corridors of Power'',<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC Radio 4 – Corridors of Power |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00770tk |website=BBC |access-date=30 July 2022 |date=13 April 2007}}</ref> ''How to Succeed at Summits'',<ref>{{cite web |title=How to succeed at Summits |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/the_westminster_hour/5128750.stm |website=BBC News |access-date=30 July 2022 |date=10 July 2006}}</ref> and ''Lying Abroad'',<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC Radio 4 – Lying Abroad: How to Be an Ambassador, Series 1, Episode 4 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007ntkm |website=BBC |access-date=30 July 2022 |date=20 June 2007}}</ref> all for [[BBC Radio 4]] in 2006 and 2007. These were followed in 2009 by a BBC Radio 4 documentary series on the press called ''The Watchdog and the Feral Beast''.<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC Radio 4 – The Watchdog and the Feral Beast |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p2zbc |website=BBC |access-date=30 July 2022 |date=December 2009}}</ref> 2009 also saw him present a BBC television series ''Getting Our Way'',<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC Four – Getting Our Way |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qtnyh |website=BBC |access-date=30 July 2022 |date=Feb 2010}}</ref> which chronicled episodes from British diplomatic history over the last 500 years and was later turned into a book.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Meyer |first1=Christopher |title=Getting Our Way: the inside stories and adventures of Britain's diplomatic missions abroad |date=10 November 2010 |publisher=Orion Publishing Group |location=London |isbn=978-0-7538-2716-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jzJRPgAACAAJ |language=en}}</ref>  In 2012 he fronted a six-part international documentary series for [[Sky Atlantic]] called "Networks of Power", which examined the power-brokers of Mumbai, Rome, Moscow, New York, Los Angeles and London. ''The Guardian'' found the series "immensely watchable" and described Meyer as "Paxmanesque – quizzical, authoritative, faintly mischievous".<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2012/jul/01/christopher-meyer-wasnt-nice-to-everyone?newsfeed=true | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Decca | last=Aitkenhead | title=Christopher Meyer: 'I wasn't nice to everyone' | date=1 July 2012}}</ref> He frequently appeared on news and current affairs programmes, for example, providing analysis for the BBC's coverage of President [[Barack Obama]]'s state visit to Britain in May 2011.<ref name = "BBC-62343008" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=24 May 2011 |title=Burgers and burning issues on Obama's UK visit |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-13511420 |access-date=30 July 2022}}</ref>

Meyer, when asked (in an interview with the BBC) "Which foreign government has the most influence on Washington?", unequivocally responded: "Israel."  When he was then asked "And then?", he said, "Well, in the hit parade I think Israel is in a class of its own..."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sir Christopher Meyer Interview – BBC World Service |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p03js1wl |access-date=31 July 2022 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref>