{{Short description|British writer (born 1960)}} {{Use British English|date=August 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox person |name = Peter Jukes |image = |image_size = |caption = |birth_name = |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1960|10|13}} |birth_place = Swindon, Wiltshire, England |known_for = Author, screenwriter, playwright, literary critic, blogger |education = Queens' College, Cambridge |alma_mater = Aylesbury Grammar School |employer = |occupation = Writer |years_active = 1980s–present |website = {{URL|http://www.peterjukes.com}} }}
'''Peter Jukes''' (born 13 October 1960) is an English author, screenwriter, playwright, literary critic and journalist. He is the co-founder and executive editor of ''Byline Times''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mortimer|first=Josiah|date=2020-09-23|title=Interview: 'Fearless' rival launched to counter Murdoch-backed TV station|url=https://leftfootforward.org/2020/09/the-interview-fearless-rival-launched-to-counter-murdoch-backed-tv-station/|access-date=2021-09-23|website=Left Foot Forward|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Hatfield|first=Stefano|date=2021-04-04|title=The lack of coverage of the Jennifer Arcuri scandal has ended my lifelong loyalty to the BBC|url=https://inews.co.uk/opinion/columnists/jennifer-arcuri-bbc-coverage-boris-johnson-942067|access-date=2021-09-23|website=inews.co.uk|language=en}}</ref>
==Early life== Jukes was born in Swindon, Wiltshire, England, and attended Queens' College, Cambridge. His mother was the daughter of a man fleeing the Armenian genocide; she was later adopted by his grandfather.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/peterjukes/status/1065015867493310464|title=My mum *jumped the queue* when, as the child of a man fleeing from the Armenian genocide, my granddad adopted her. Oh, and he gave refuge to a *queue-jumping* Jewish woman fleeing the Nazis. Long live decent British queue-jumping - the one that gave us a global reputationpic.twitter.com/1kKKKrlUSX|first=Peter|last=Jukes|date=20 November 2018}}</ref> His paternal grandfather was the comic artist John Jukes.
==Television== Jukes' television writing has mainly been in the genre of prime time thrillers or TV detective fiction, with 90-minute or two-hour long stories being broadcast by the BBC.
Jukes devised and wrote most of the three seasons of the BBC One prime time undercover thriller ''In Deep'' starring Nick Berry and Stephen Tompkinson;<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1174103.stm|title=Tompkinson goes In Deep|date=18 February 2001|work=BBC News}}</ref><ref>In Immersion | French Version of in Deep</ref> two 90-minute film length episodes of the BBC One series ''The Inspector Lynley Mysteries'';.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/lynley/episodes/series5_feature.shtml|title=Series 5|website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/lynley/episodes/series4_feature.shtml|title=BBC - Drama - Inspector Lynley Mysteries Episode Guide Series 4|website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> ''Burn Out'', the two-hour first episode of the first season of the Emmy Award winning cold case series ''Waking the Dead'';<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Web site |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/wakingthedead/episodeguide_series1.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090919154315/https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/wakingthedead/episodeguide_series1.shtml |archive-date=19 Sep 2009}}</ref> achieved 8.4m viewers and a 38% share.<ref>Digital Spy author (22 June 2001) ''[http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds3129.html Feltz return grabs 4m]'', ''Digital Spy'', retrieved 6 January 2007 {{dead link|date=April 2025}}</ref> He and Ed Whitmore wrote the second series of the paranormal/science thriller ''Sea of Souls''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/12_december/08/souls_credits.shtml|title=BBC - Press Office - Sea Of Souls credits|website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> which won the 2005 BAFTA Scotland Award<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100124130837/http://www.baftascotland.co.uk/archive/scotland-awards-2005 Scottish Bafta Awards]</ref> for Best Drama. Jukes' opening episode of the third season of ''Holby City''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Official Holby City Web Site |url=http://www.holby.tv/db/index.php?id=9,1314,0,0,1,0 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120728225959/http://www.holby.tv/db/?id=9,1314,0,0,1,0 |archive-date=28 Jul 2012}}</ref> was described by ''The Guardian'' as the "televisual equivalent of Crack Cocaine."<ref>{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Rupert |title=Life in the fast lane |work=The Guardian | date=6 October 2000 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/oct/06/tvandradio.television2 |accessdate=18 March 2009 |location=London}}</ref>
In October 2009, Jukes wrote a critical piece for ''Prospect'' magazine, contrasting the standards of UK television drama negatively with the standard of television dramas in America.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/organgrinder/2009/oct/29/the-wire-us-television|title=They get The Wire, we get Casualty|last=Lusher|first=Tim|date=29 October 2009 |work=The Guardian |accessdate=30 January 2010 |location=London}}</ref> In the essay ''Why Can't Britain Do the Wire'' he argued that high-quality drama in the UK had suffered from a concentration of commissioning power, the dominance of soaps (such as the twelfth series of ''Holby City''), and the lack of show runners or writer producers that characterise US TV drama production.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2009/10/why-britain-cant-do-the-wire/|title=Why Britain can't do The Wire|last=Jukes|first=Peter|date=21 October 2009|work=Prospect|accessdate=30 January 2010|archive-date=11 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811061400/http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2009/10/why-britain-cant-do-the-wire/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Radio== His radio credits include the original BBC Radio ''Soul Motel'' (2008)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://bbc.ask-adders.com/program-details/afternoon+play/20080131141500/ |title=BBC synopsis for ''Soul Motel'' |access-date=17 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707175220/http://bbc.ask-adders.com/program-details/afternoon+play/20080131141500/ |archive-date=7 July 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> (a drama taking place entirely in social networking space similar to Bebo or Facebook) and, with the comedian and actor Lenny Henry, the plays ''Bad Faith'' and ''Slavery: The Making of''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qgxs/episodes/2007|title=BBC Radio 4 programmes}}</ref> The latter formed part of the BBC's 2007 programming series to commemorate 200 years since Britain abolished the slave trade, "managed to extract maximum humour from the grimmest of subject matters",<ref name="Sunday Express">{{cite news | last=Cowen | first=Ruth | title=Bickering actors bring humour to a serious subject | work=Sunday Express | date=25 March 2007}}</ref> by using the form of a semi-comic mockumentary. As ''The Spectator'' magazine explained: "Greg Wise plays the harassed producer trying to put together a drama for which Lenny Henry has provided sheafs of research printouts from the internet – but no script... 'Whose story is this?' demands Adrian Lester in an angry exchange with Brian Blessed. Were they in character? Or were they arguing for real?"<ref name="Spectator">{{cite news|url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/2007/03/behind-the-scenes-2/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127175141/https://www.spectator.co.uk/2007/03/behind-the-scenes-2/|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 January 2020|last=Chisholm |first=Kate |title=Behind the scenes |work=The Spectator |date=31 March 2007 |accessdate=20 March 2009 }}</ref>
In 2008, Henry starred in another "dark comedy" by Jukes<ref name="Davies">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3557475/Wednesdays-TV-and-radio-choices.html|title=Wednesday's TV & radio choices|last=Davies|first=Patricia Wynn |date=8 August 2008|work=The Daily Telegraph|accessdate=17 March 2009 | location=London}}</ref> called ''Bad Faith'': "Imagine the movie ''Bad Lieutenant'' transplanted to Birmingham, with Harvey Keitel's morally bankrupt copper replaced by Lenny Henry as a police chaplain who has lost his faith, and you have Peter Jukes's black comedy".<ref name="Campling">{{cite news |last=Campling |first=Chris |date=30 July 2008 |title=Radio Choice |work=The Times |location=London |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article4425009.ece |accessdate=18 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616205020/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article4425009.ece |archive-date=16 Jun 2011}}</ref> Paul Donovan of ''The Sunday Times'' called ''Bad Faith'' "the best radio drama I have heard in ages, and clearly destined to become a series".<ref name="The Sunday Times">{{cite web |url=http://peterjukes.wordpress.com/not-forgetting-sound/ | last=Donovan| first=Paul| title=Programme of the Week | work=The Sunday Times | date=27 July 2008 | accessdate=20 March 2009 }}</ref> In February 2010, three further episodes were broadcast on BBC Radio 4.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/tv-listings/|title=TV listings guide|website=Radio Times|date=25 May 2023 }}</ref> to more positive reviews: "The scripts are strong, taut, bang up-to-the-minute, salted with ironic humour. (Lenny Henry's) performance is brilliant" according to Gillian Reynolds in ''The Daily Telegraph'',<ref name="Reynolds">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/7293957/Radios-unlikely-whirlwind-affair-with-Lenny-Henry-review.html|title=Radio Choice|last=Reynolds|first=Gillian|date=23 February 2010|work=The Daily Telegraph|accessdate=25 March 2010 | location=London}}</ref> and according to ''The Stage'':<blockquote>"Jukes' writing is terrific – funny, deep, unafraid to move from the mundane to the reflective. Jake, his semi-heretical minister, is the most original creation of his kind that I can recall and Henry was born to play him.".<ref name="The Stage">{{cite web |last=Moira |first=Petty |date=22 February 2010 |title=Radio review – Drama |url=http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/feature.php/27313/radio-review-drama/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611151637/http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/feature.php/27313/radio-review-drama |archive-date=11 Jun 2011 |accessdate=24 February 2010 |work=The Stage}}</ref></blockquote>
==Non-fiction== Jukes's book ''A Shout in the Street'' was published by Faber and Faber in the UK in 1990, and by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and the University of California Press in the US.<ref>{{cite book|title=A Shout in the Street: An Excursion into the Modern City|publisher=University of California Press|author=Peter Jukes|year=1990|isbn=0-374-26339-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/shoutinstreeta00juke}}</ref> This "unusual but addictive book" (according to ''The Washington Post''<ref> {{cite news |date=26 August 1990 |title=Hardcovers in Brief |work=The Washington Post Archive |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/72611275.html?dids=72611275:72611275&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&fmac=&date=Aug+26,+1990&author=&desc=HARDCOVERS+IN+BRIEF |accessdate=21 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019211552/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/72611275.html?dids=72611275:72611275&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&fmac=&date=Aug+26,+1990&author=&desc=HARDCOVERS+IN+BRIEF |archive-date=19 Oct 2012}}</ref>) is a series of essays and montages about modernity and city life, centred on London, Paris, Saint Petersburg and New York City. The ''Journal of Sociology'' compared the book favourably to the work of Jane Jacobs: "He is less shrill than Jacobs, more confident in his materials, and yet more sensitive and critical."<ref>{{cite journal|year=1991|journal=Journal of Sociology|publisher=Excerpt, Sage Journals Online|volume=27|issue=2|pages=254–255|url=http://jos.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/27/2/254|doi=10.1177/144078339102700214|title=Book Reviews : A SHOUT IN THE STREET: THE MODERN CITY. Peter Jukes. London, Faber and Faber, 1990. xviii + 258pp. $45.00 (hardback)|last1=Troy|first1=P.|s2cid=144299234|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160119115122/http://jos.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/27/2/254|archivedate=19 January 2016|df=dmy-all|url-access=subscription}}</ref> But it was the format of the book ("a courteously lucid deconstructionist text, which is part documentary lecture, part collage of quotations and photographs" according to ''The New Yorker''<ref>{{cite magazine |title=A Shout in the Street – An Excursion into the Modern City | magazine=The New Yorker |date=27 August 1990}}</ref>) which was commended by John Berger a "dream of a book" following the traditions of Walter Benjamin: <blockquote>Benjamin dreamed of making a book entirely of quotations, and there have been some remarkable books which are creative responses to that idea, like Peter Jukes's A Shout in the Street.<ref>{{cite news|title=Anxieties of influence: Melancholic or Marxist? 100 years after his birth, Walter Benjamin is still causing arguments | work=The Independent|date=23 July 1992|accessdate=4 February 2010|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/anxieties-of-influence-melancholic-or-marxist-100-years-after-his-birth-walter-benjamin-is-still-causing-arguments-kevin-jackson-reports-1534954.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/anxieties-of-influence-melancholic-or-marxist-100-years-after-his-birth-walter-benjamin-is-still-causing-arguments-kevin-jackson-reports-1534954.html |archive-date=26 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | location=London | first=Kevin | last=Jackson}}</ref></blockquote>
Following through in these themes of urbanism and city development, Jukes also co-authored, along with Anna Whyatt, Stephen O'Brien and the sociologist Manuel Castells, the monograph ''Creative Capital: 21st Century Regions''.<ref name="Creative">{{citation |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=AXDrPQAACAAJ&q=Peter+Jukes|title=Creative Capital|work=21st Century Era|accessdate=20 March 2009|isbn=9780953404704|last1=Castells|first1=Manuel|last2=O'Brien|first2=Stephen|year=1999}}</ref>
Jukes is the author of ''The Fall of the House of Murdoch'', published by Unbound, a crowd-funded publisher, in August 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://unbound.com/books/the-fall-of-the-house-of-murdoch/|title=The Fall of the House of Murdoch|via=unbound.com}}</ref>
Since 2016, Jukes collaborates with Deeivya Meir on the podcast series ''Untold - The Daniel Morgan Murder''.<ref>Deeivya Meir, Peter Jukes: Podcast "[http://www.untoldmurder.com/eps Untold - The Daniel Morgan Murder]", episode "Serpico Haslam", 7th of July 2016, 31 min, from minute 1:45. And episode "Too Close for Comfort - New Evidence Connecting Daniel Morgan to another Violent Death", 9th of Oct. 2018, 24 min</ref> He also co-hosted the podcast ''Dial M for Mueller'' with journalist Carole Cadwalladr.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dial M for Mueller: Why Brexit Needs an FBI Style Inquiry - with Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes on Apple Podcasts|url=https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dial-m-for-mueller-why-brexit-needs-an-fbi-style/id1370376823|access-date=2021-09-23|website=Apple Podcasts|date=7 March 2019 |language=en-GB}}</ref>
==Theatre== Jukes's early theatre work debuted at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre: ''Abel Barebone and the Humble Company'' (1987) and ''Shadowing the Conqueror'' (1988).<ref name="Doollee">{{cite web |title=Peter Jukes |url=http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsJ/jukes-peter.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607122830/http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsJ/jukes-peter.html |archive-date=7 Jun 2011 |accessdate=17 March 2009 |work=Doollee.com – The Playwright's Database}}</ref> ''Shadowing the Conqueror'', which transferred to Washington, D.C., was described in ''The Washington Post'' as "a depiction of the travels of Alexander the Great (Grimmette) and a contemporary photographer named Mary Ellis (Laura Giannarelli) – based very loosely on the relationship between Alexander and Pyrrho of Elis, a painter who accompanied the warrior on his expedition to the Orient – is most of all a lofty debate between two intensely committed, opposing forces."<ref name="Washington Post">{{cite news |last=Sommers |first=Pamela |date=1 December 1990 |title=Stage Guild's Trio on Trust |work=Washington Post Archives |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/72634164.html?dids=72634164:72634164&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+01,+1990&author=Pamela+Sommers&pub=The+Washington+Post+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Theater;+Stage+Guild's+Trio+on+Trust&pqatl=google |accessdate=21 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306175735/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/doc/307325518.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec%2001,%201990&author=Pamela%20Sommers&pub=The%20Washington%20Post%20(pre-1997%20Fulltext)&edition=&startpage=&desc=Theater;%20Stage%20Guild%27s%20Trio%20on%20Trust |archive-date=6 Mar 2016}}</ref> Jukes wrote the book of the London stage musical ''Matador'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Matador |url=http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsL/leander-michael.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303204117/http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsL/leander-michael.html |archive-date=3 Mar 2016 |work=Doollee.com – The Playwright's database}}</ref> with lyrics by Edward Seago and music by Mike Leander, starring John Barrowman and Stefanie Powers, which premiered at the Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue in April 1991.
==Journalism and politics== Jukes has been a book reviewer<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books-please-be-my-virtual-valentine-1070495.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books-please-be-my-virtual-valentine-1070495.html |archive-date=26 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |author=Peter Jukes|title=Books: Please be my Virtual Valentine... |date=February 1999 |work=The Independent |accessdate=17 March 2009 | location=London}}</ref> and feature writer<ref>{{cite news |author=Peter Jukes |date=April 1993 |title=The last of England: As Shakespeare's 429th birthday nears, the Channel tunnellers are burrowing under one of his monuments on the White Cliffs of Dover, symbolic fortress of nationhood |work=The Independent |location=London |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-last-of-england-as-shakespeares-429th-birthday-nears-the-channel-tunnellers-are-burrowing-under-one-of-his-monuments-on-the-white-cliffs-of-dover-symbolic-fortress-of-nationhood-1455973.html |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |accessdate=18 March 2009 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-last-of-england-as-shakespeares-429th-birthday-nears-the-channel-tunnellers-are-burrowing-under-one-of-his-monuments-on-the-white-cliffs-of-dover-symbolic-fortress-of-nationhood-1455973.html |archive-date=26 May 2022}}</ref> for both ''The Independent'' and the ''New Statesman''<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/gallery/5560/ms1.html|title=Get a (digital) life|last=Jukes|first=Peter|date=10 November 1995|work=review of MICROSERFS|publisher=New Statesman|accessdate=17 March 2009|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091026191745/http://geocities.com/soHo/gallery/5560/ms1.html|archivedate=26 October 2009|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> on themes including nationalism, art in the computer age,<ref name="newstatesman">{{cite news|author=Peter Jukes |title=The Work of Art in the Digital Domain |work=New Statesman |date=June 1992 |url=http://www.compas.demon.co.uk/Work%20of%20Art%20in%20the%20Digital%20Domain.pdf |accessdate=18 March 2009 }}{{dead link|date=January 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and apocalyptic religion.<ref>{{cite news |author=Peter Jukes |date=May 1998 |title=Books: The apocalypse, now and then |work=The Independent |location=London |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/books-the-apocalypse-now-and-then-1162017.html |url-status= |url-access=subscription |accessdate=17 March 2009 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/books-the-apocalypse-now-and-then-1162017.html |archive-date=26 May 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Peter Jukes|url= http://www.internationalepolitik.de/ip/archiv/jahrgang2005/april2005/die-apokalypse-in-uns--die-moderne-und-der-monotheistische-fundamentalismus.html|work=Internationale Politik|date=April 2005|title=Die Apokalypse in uns. Die Moderne und der monotheistische Fundamentalismus|accessdate=17 March 2009}} {{Dead link|date=November 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>
During the 1980s and 1990s, Jukes was an active member of the Labour Party and was involved in the investigations around the cash for questions scandal.<ref name="Hansard">{{cite web |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmselect/cmstnprv/030ii/sp0121.htm | title=Select Committee on Standards and Privileges |date=27 April 1995 |work=Hansard Appendix 4, Section 12 |accessdate=21 March 2009}}</ref>{{primary source inline|date=April 2025}} Jukes became an active Barack Obama supporter during the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries in the US, writing for Daily Kos and then MyDD when it became a pro-Hillary Clinton site. Later, he recorded his online experiences of the Primary 'Flame Wars' for ''Prospect''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/9/26/54852/7442 |title=Peter Jukes: "Flaming for Obama" |date=26 September 2008 |work=MYDD |accessdate=18 March 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081109193153/http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/9/26/54852/7442 |archivedate=9 November 2008 |df=dmy }}</ref> Following the primaries, he was one of 25 regular bloggers who began writing for a new political blog, ''The Motley Moose''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Jukes |first=Peter |date=October 2008 |title=Flaming for Obama |url=http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10398 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223100721/http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10398 |archive-date=23 February 2009 |accessdate=17 March 2009 |work=Prospect |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://motleymoose.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=950 |title=Special Relationship |date=February 2009 |work=The Motley Moose |accessdate=20 March 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100114190842/http://motleymoose.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=950 |archivedate=14 January 2010 |df=dmy }}</ref>
During the News International phone hacking scandal trial of Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and others, Jukes used the crowdfunding tool Indiegogo to raise donations to allow him to livetweet the trial from start to finish.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/629115/fblk|title=Live Tweeting the Hacking Trial till the Verdict|website=Indiegogo}}</ref> In May 2016, Jukes presented and co-produced with Deeivya Meier a 20-part podcast about the Murder of Daniel Morgan, ''Untold: The Daniel Morgan Murder'', which topped the UK iTunes podcast chart.<ref>{{Cite web |date=19 June 2016 |title=Untold: The Daniel Morgan Murder: 'British Serial' tops iTunes podcast chart with over 200,000 downloads |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/untold-the-daniel-morgan-murder-british-serial-tops-itunes-podcast-chart-with-over-200000-downloads-a7090021.html |website=The Independent}}</ref> The following year, Jukes co-wrote a book with Alastair Morgan titled ''Untold: the Daniel Morgan Murder Exposed'', which featured new revelations about the case.<ref>{{cite news |last=Keenan |first=John |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/15/untold-podcast-book-daniel-morgan-murder |title=Untold podcast – the book: new details revealed about Daniel Morgan murder |work=The Guardian |date=15 May 2017 |access-date=17 May 2021}}</ref>
According to Eliott Higgins, founder of the open source investigative site Bellingcat, Jukes came up with the name of the new organisation in 2014, inspired by the medieval folk tale of Belling the Cat.<ref>{{Cite web |date= 4 December 2023 |title= Eliot Higgins: the man who verifies |url= https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/64130/eliot-higgins-the-man-who-verifies |website=Prospect Magazine}}</ref>
Along with the ''Observer'' journalist Carole Cadwalladr Jukes revealed that the major Leave.EU donor Arron Banks met with officials from the Russian Embassy multiple times before and after the EU referendum.<ref>{{Cite web|title= Revealed: Leave.EU campaign met Russian officials as many as 11 times|url= https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/09/arron-banks-russia-brexit-meeting | website=The Guardian}}</ref>
In 2018, Jukes and Stephen Colegrave founded ''Byline Times''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Articles by Peter Jukes|url=https://muckrack.com/peter-jukes/articles|access-date=2021-02-06|website=muckrack.com|language=en}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0432133|name=Peter Jukes}} *{{Official website|http://www.peterjukes.com}}
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