Phillip Hodson

Career

His afternoon and evening counselling programmes ran on LBC Radio in London for nearly 20 years. Thereafter he worked on Talk Radio and with Jimmy Young on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 2. "Hodson is one of the few regular contributors to The Times who has also written extensively for the popular press including agony pages for Reveille, The Daily Star, Today and the News of the World.

His column also appeared in She Magazine, Woman"s World, Cosmopolitan, First Magazine (United States of America), Family Circle, Fast Forward, television Quick, Oklahoma Magazine, Woman and Home and Woman"s Journal.

Achievements

• Hodson won a ‘columnist of the year’ in 1984.

Politics

He has been an outspoken critic of the ‘stiff upper lip’ attitude of male conservatism - clashing, amongst others, with the sociologist Frank Furedi. His most important is probably Men: An Investigation into the Emotional Male, which accompanied a British Broadcasting Corporation television series in one of the first male engagements with the challenges of feminism.