Andrew Billen
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Andrew William Scott Billen (born 30 December 1957) is a British journalist, children's author, and staff feature writer on The Times newspaper.
Early life
Andrew Billen was born in London on 30 December 1957 and brought up in
Career
Billen started on newspapers at the
He returned to The Times in 2002, where he wrote the weekly "The Andrew Billen Interview" for five years. He was the paper's main television reviewer from 2007 to 2017. For ten years up to 2007 he worked in a freelance capacity as the New Statesman′s TV critic. He later became the magazine's theatre reviewer.
In 2006 he won a prize at the
In 2022 he was presenter and reporter of a five-part Story of Our Times podcast, The Feud, about a dispute between Christ Church, Oxford and the college's dean, Martyn Percy.
Personal life
He is married and lives in Oxford with his wife, Lucy, and two daughters, Abby and Orla.
Publications
- Sam Johnson, The wonderful word doctor. Short Books, London.
- Who was Charles Dickens? Short Books, London, 2005.ISBN 1904977189(republished in hardback on 5 November 2000 as The boy who invented Christmas (Short Books).)