Peter Lunt is Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester. His research interests include audience research, popular television, the public understanding of media regulation and media and social theory. He is currently working on a project on media, history and memory and on the changing understanding of public service broadcasting. He is the author of five books including Talk on Television" (with Sonia Livingstone, Routledge, 1994) and Stanley Milgram" (Palgrave, 2010) and many academic papers and chapters.