Jon Fraser King is the founder of the Shrewsbury Darwin Festival. The festival was devised during his time as a presenter on BBC Radio Shropshire. In 2003 he was appointed Darwin Officer for the local authority and set about preparing for the bicentennial celebrations which he directed in 2009. He has lectured on Darwin’s Shrewsbury at Stanford University, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was invited by the British Council to address an International Colloquium for Science Festival Directors.
