Natalie Louise Haynes

Background

Natalie Haynes was born in 1974 in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Education

Natalie attended King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham then read Classics at Christ's College, Cambridge.

Career

Natalie Haynes has been a panellist on Wordaholics, We've Been Here Before, Banter, Quote... Unquote, Personality Test, and Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive on BBC Radio 4. She has contributed to BBC 7 comedy review show Serious About Comedy and reviews films for Front Row. In 2005 and 2006 Haynes wrote and presented documentaries on comic writers, for BBC Radio 4. She also appears as a critic on Saturday Review on BBC Radio 4.

Haynes was a regular panellist on BBC's The Review Show and was the most-booked guest on More4's The Last Word. She appeared as a panellist on BBC 4's The Book Quiz, and on their Poetry Special alongside Andrew Motion and George Szirtes. She also appeared on Backlash, a BBC2 documentary on voluntary childlessness, wrote and performed in the STV/Assembly Television Best of the Fest in August 2005. Haynes has been a panellist on BBC Four's quiz show Mindgames, featured on Must Try Harder on BBC Two in 2006 and was the art and literature expert on the BBC Two quiz show Knowitalls. In 2008 Haynes was a member of stand-up comedians team on University Challenge: The Professionals. She is the only comedian to have appeared at every Newbury Comedy Festival.

Natalie has been a Guest Contributor for The Times since October 2006, and a regular contributor to New Humanist. She has also written for The Sunday Times Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph, The Big Issue, Loaded, and The Independent. Her first book, The Ancient Guide to Modern Life, was published to great acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, and her most recent was the much-praised, A Thousand Ships, published in May 2019.

Achievements

• Natalie Haynes is a profound writer. Her best known work The Great Escape, won a PETA Proggy award in 2008.

Works

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  • The Ancient Guide to Modern Life

    (In this thoroughly engaging book, Natalie Haynes brings h...)

    2011
  • A Thousand Ships

    (In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie H...)

    2019
  • The Furies

    (After losing her fiancé in a shocking tragedy, Alex Morri...)

    2014
  • The Great Escape

    (Max has nine livesand he’s going to need every one of the...)

    2007
  • The Children of Jocasta 2017