Education
Clare College; Saint Paul"s School.
journalist presenter television producer
Clare College; Saint Paul"s School.
He presents the British Broadcasting Corporation interview series Five Minutes With.., putting questions to the likes of Elle Macpherson, Stephen Fry, Richard Dawkins, Martin Amis, Peter Hitchens, Serena Williams and Ricky Gervais. His documentaries appear on the British Broadcasting Corporation News Channel, British Broadcasting Corporation One, British Broadcasting Corporation Two and British Broadcasting Corporation Four. He is the grandson of concert pianist Peter Stadlen and Hedi Stadlen, the activist and musicologist.
Matthew was born to Sir Nicholas Stadlen, a High Court judge (who holds the record for the longest speech in English legal history at 119 days) and Frances Stadlen in London.
He went to Street Paul"s School. He graduated from Clare College, Cambridge, with a first-class honours degree in Classics.
Stadlen worked as a producer on the British Broadcasting Corporation One show This Week and output edited some of the programmes, and also worked on Newsnight. Stadlen has presented and produced Five Minutes With.
He has made 26 documentaries for the British Broadcasting Corporation News Channel series On The Road With.
Subjects have included Nigel Kennedy, Tracey Emin, Nicola Benedetti, Rabbi Doctor Harvey Belovski, Stuart Broad, Eton Head Master Tony Little, Bryn Terfel and Elle Macpherson.
He worked as a journalist on The Bulletin in Brussels and co-wrote The Politics Companion (2004), before joining the British Broadcasting Corporation in September 2004. Since 2008 and has interviewed over 190 public figures, including Sir Ben Kingsley, Nigella Lawson, Gary Lineker, Dawn French, Philip Pullman, Juliette Binoche, Ian McEwan and Tim Vine.
