Peter Crimmins used to tinker with electronics as a child. He would take radios apart and figure out the schema of capacitors and transistors. He never figured out how to put them back together, so he became a radio producer rather than an electrical engineer. Peter became senior producer of Ben Manilla Productions, in San Francisco, and made programming for public radio, commerical radio, and corporate projects.
Since becoming an independent producer, he has reported from England, Spain, Tijuana, Philadelphia, and New York. In addition to Studio 360, his stories have aired on Weekend America and Marketplace. He is a part-time news reporter at WHYY, in Philadelphia. His long-awaited film project may never be completed, but it's great. You'll see.
Peter Crimmins appears in the following:
Penn Museum Apologizes For 'Unethical Possession Of Human Remains'
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
'The Island We Made': Lip-Sync Opera And High Drag Sing An Ode To Mothers
Friday, March 19, 2021
National Guard Troops Mobilized After Unrest In Philadelphia
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Rescued From The Vault: Nat Turner Rebellion
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Protests Continue At Philadelphia Starbucks
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
West Philadelphia Cemetery Welcomes Community Gardeners
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Philadelphia's Mummers Parade Will Now Be Culturally Appropriate
Friday, December 30, 2016
Philadelphia Mayor Lifts Ban On Love Park Skateboarding Before Renovation
Monday, February 15, 2016
In Nod To History, A Crumbling Philly Row House Gets A Funeral
Friday, May 30, 2014
Philadelphia Rapper Sets Unsolved Mystery to Music
Friday, March 07, 2014
Philadelphia Orchestra Warms Up for Critical Season
Thursday, November 08, 2012
New Home Brings Barnes Collection to Full Radiance
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Saving Camden
Friday, September 10, 2010
According to crime statistics from 2009, Camden, New Jersey ranks as America's most dangerous city. Some residents are looking to the arts to try to turn the city around. With a new theater opening this month, we wondered if an arts district can really save Camden. Produced by ...
American Icons: Fallingwater
Friday, May 29, 2009
In the late 1930s, Edgar Kaufmann asked starchitect Frank Lloyd Wright to design a home near a waterfall in Pennsylvania — and an architectural icon was born. This summer, the Guggenheim Museum in New York is presenting a retrospective of Wright's work. As part of our American Icons series, Studio ...
American Icons: Fallingwater
Friday, May 29, 2009
Vampire Chronicles
Friday, December 05, 2008
With the hit movie "Twilight" and HBO's series "True Blood," vampires are back in a big way. Peter Crimmins surveys culture's long obsession with these blood suckers in an attempt to find out why the vampire motif will never die.
PA polls open
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Bill and Dick's Excellent Adventure
Friday, October 31, 2008
There's one guide museum-goers in Philadelphia should not be without: Travels With Dick And Bill. It’s a self-published packet of stapled Xeroxed pages, and a huge endeavor. Dick Hughes and Bill McLaughlin, both 85, have visited 203 museums in and around Philadelphia, ...
Teddy Cruz
Friday, June 13, 2008
The work of San Diego architect Teddy Cruz takes its cues from the "informal design" (that's another way of saying "shantytowns") of Tijuana. But selling his radical designs to new immigrants is a challenge; they tend to want a house with a white picket fence. Studio 360's
The Spectacular Forgery That Fooled Almost Everyone
Friday, November 30, 2007
One of the most notorious art forgeries of the 20th century happened in England in the 1990s when two men were arrested for spectacularly exploiting the vulnerabilities of the art market. Art dealer John Drewe handled the paperwork, and John Myatt handled the paintbrush -- and they ...
