Editing Colin Firth (section)

==Writing==
Firth's first published work, "The Department of Nothing", appeared in ''[[Speaking with the Angel]]'' (2000),<ref>{{cite web |author=lmw |url=http://hem.passagen.se/lmw/department_of_nothing.html |title=Colin Firth Career Timeline: Department of Nothing |publisher=Hem.passagen.se |access-date=3 May 2010 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131115214352/http://hem.passagen.se/lmw/department_of_nothing.html |archive-date=15 November 2013  }}</ref> a collection of short stories edited by [[Nick Hornby]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/minisites/nickhornby/books/swta_synopsis.html#swta |title=Nick Hornby |publisher=Penguin.co.uk |access-date=3 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100714194350/http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/minisites/nickhornby/books/swta_synopsis.html#swta |archive-date=14 July 2010  }}</ref> and published to benefit the [[TreeHouse School|TreeHouse Trust]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/minisites/nickhornby/treehouse/index.html |title=TreeHouse |publisher=Penguin.co.uk |access-date=3 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012223142/http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/minisites/nickhornby/treehouse/index.html |archive-date=12 October 2012  }}</ref> to aid autistic children. He met Hornby during the filming of the original ''[[Fever Pitch (1997 film)|Fever Pitch]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/biographies/colin_firth_biog/9 |title=Colin Firth Biography |publisher=Tiscali.co.uk |access-date=3 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080605155551/http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/biographies/colin_firth_biog/9 |archive-date=5 June 2008  }}</ref> He contributed to the book ''We Are One: A Celebration of Tribal Peoples'' (2009),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.survivalinternational.org/weareone |title=We Are One |publisher=Survival International |access-date=3 May 2010}}</ref> which explores the cultures, diversity and challenges of Indigenous peoples around the world. It features contributions from many Western writers, including [[Laurens van der Post]], [[Noam Chomsky]], [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]]; and from Indigenous people such as [[Davi Kopenawa Yanomami]] and [[Roy Sesana]]. Profits from the book's sale benefit the Indigenous rights organisation [[Survival International]]. Firth was an executive producer for the film ''[[In Prison My Whole Life]]'', featuring Noam Chomsky and [[Angela Davis]]. It was selected to the 2007 London Film Festival and the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.<ref>''(a) [http://history.sundance.org/films/5368/in_prison_my_whole_life In Prison My Whole Life ]''  Sundance Film Festival website; (b) [http://www.inprisonmywholelife.com Official Website of the film] (c) [http://www.screendaily.com/in-prison-my-whole-life/4035418.article Review of ''In Prison My Whole Life'']. (Registration required) at screendaily.com</ref>

In December 2010, Firth was guest editor on [[BBC Radio 4]]'s ''[[Today (BBC Radio 4)|Today]]'' programme, where he commissioned research to scan the brains of volunteers (mostly university students) to see if there were structural differences that might account for political leanings.<ref name=BBC-2011-06-05/> The resulting academic paper listed him as an author, along with two [[University College London]] researchers<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1016/j.cub.2011.03.017 | pmid=21474316 | volume=21 | issue=8 | title=Political Orientations Are Correlated with Brain Structure in Young Adults | year=2011 | journal=[[Current Biology]] | pages=677–680 | last1 = Kanai | first1 = Ryota |last2=Feilden |first2=Tom |last3=Firth |first3=Colin |last4=Rees |first4=Geraint |author-link4= Geraint Rees| pmc=3092984 | bibcode=2011CBio...21..677K }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |doi = 10.1038/474423f|title = The voter's grey matter|journal = Nature|volume = 474|issue = 7352|pages = 423|year = 2011|doi-access = free}}</ref> and the science reporter of the BBC Radio 4 ''Today'' programme. For his contribution, professor [[John Jost]] called Firth a 'scientific ambassador' in the field of political neuroscience.<ref name=BBC-2011-06-05/> The study suggested that conservatives had more development in the [[amygdala]], and liberals in the [[anterior cingulate cortex]].

In 2012, Firth's audiobook recording of [[Graham Greene]]'s ''[[The End of the Affair]]'' was released at [[Audible.com]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colin-firth-lends-voice-to-classic-novel-reading/ |title=Colin Firth lends voice to classic novel reading |work=CBS This Morning |date=7 May 2012 |access-date=7 May 2012}}</ref> and was declared [[Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year|Audiobook of the Year]] at the 2013 [[Audie Awards]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Audies 2013|url=http://www.audible.com/int/Audie_Awards_2013|access-date=14 April 2014}}</ref>