Andrew Billen

Andrew Billen

Andrew Billen has worked as a celebrity interviewer for, successively, The Observer, the Evening Standard and, currently The Times. For his columns, he was awarded reviewer of the year in 2006 Press Gazette Magazine Awards.

Articles by Andrew Billen

Results 161 to 170 of 512

Red or dead

  • 27 March 2006

Television - Tales of post-perestroika chaos make tragicomic viewing, writes Andrew Billen The State of Russia season (More4)

No joke

  • 20 March 2006

Television - A morbid biopic does Kenneth Williams little justice, writesAndrew Billen Fantabulosa! (BBC4)

Camping it up

  • 13 March 2006

Television - A scrupulous documentary fails to bring X-Ray to life, writes Andrew Billen The Road to Guantanamo (Channel 4)

Andrew Billen - Purple haze

  • 06 March 2006
  • 1 comment

Television - A tale of 1970s corruption is an exercise in confused nostalgia, writes Andrew Billen The Lavender List (BBC4)

Andrew Billen - Workers from hell

  • 27 February 2006
  • 1 comment

Television - A portrait of real-life office torpor rings many bells, writes Andrew Billen The Armstrongs (BBC2) The Apprentice (BBC2)

Andrew Billen - Fiendish invention

  • 20 February 2006

Television - Jack Bauer's misadventures are still essential viewing, writes Andrew Billen 24 (Sky One)

Andrew Billen - Rising damp

  • 13 February 2006
  • 1 comment

Television - Seventies squatters made a brave new world in Brixton. By Andrew Billen Lefties (BBC4)

Bye-bye, Boss

  • 06 February 2006

Television - The death of a real-life mobster proves seriously funny, writes Andrew Billen A Gangster's Funeral (Channel 5)

Andrew Billen - Dead romantic

  • 30 January 2006

Television - We owe our sentiment over the whale to Wordsworth and co, writes Andrew Billen The Romantics (BBC2)

Andrew Billen - Fantasy island

  • 23 January 2006

Television - A parable of modern Britain lapses into self-indulgence, writes Andrew Billen Friends and Crocodiles (BBC2)

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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