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

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In search of lost youth

  • 07 May 2007

This first-class programme tackled gang crime without sanctimony Peckham's Lost Radio 4

When the truth hurts

  • 30 April 2007

Why are people so offended by this comic? Surely they realise he's joking? Reginald D Hunter Pride and Prejudice and Niggas

Mischief from beyond the grave

  • 23 April 2007

There's plenty of agony in store on The Archers, thanks to a clever plot twist The Archers Radio 4

When hot news goes off the boil

  • 16 April 2007

Filled with badly reported arts stories, Today has gone soft under its new editor Today Radio 4

Now, lie down on this couch

  • 09 April 2007

Thought-provoking drama from an unlikely source Dr Freud Will See You Now Mr Hitler Radio 4

Magic for grown-ups

  • 02 April 2007

Superior storytelling brings some old favourites to life More From the Magic Roundabout Radio 4 The Road to Rome Radio 4

They've never had it so good

  • 05 March 2007

Maxine Peake brings an unexpected sweetness to John Prescott's adultery Confessions of a Diary Secretary ITV1

Breathing life into dead poets

  • 26 February 2007

Melvyn Bragg may deprive ITV of its reputation as the stupid channel The South Bank Show ITV1

Let's do the time warp again

  • 19 February 2007

A genre-hopping drama on ITV is a throwback to a more childish age Primeval ITV1

Nothing ventured, nothing gained

  • 12 February 2007

Two documentaries show it's important to choose your subject carefully Louis Theroux: Gambling in Las Vegas BBC2 Do You Want to Live Forever? Channel 4

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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