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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.

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Twenty-four-hour party people
05 February 2007

These young, horny, coke-snorting politicians seem fresh and real

Party Animals

TV and Radio
Teenage dreams, so hard to meet
29 January 2007

Channel 4's latest attempt to shock patronises its younger audience

Skins E4

TV and Radio
Clash of the current affairs flagships
22 January 2007

Streamlined to 30 minutes, Panorama is drinking in the last-chance saloon

Panorama

TV and Radio
When fashion gets ugly
15 January 2007

A sly satire on race and class makes a welcome and witty comment on the US

Ugly Betty

TV and Radio
Ten years on, it's all gone wrong
08 January 2007

This reunion seemed designed to show that people get duller with age

This Life Plus Ten

Culture
Will the BBC get a visit from Santa - or the Grinch?
18 December 2006

Viewers did not have to wait until Christmas for the turkeys this year

TV and Radio
Who says the cuppa is disappearing?
11 December 2006

A nostalgic history shows that Britain's tea tradition is, in fact, alive and well

Disappe

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Searching for someone to blame
04 December 2006

Docudrama on the Boxing Day tsunami fails to deliver a knockout blow

Tsunami: the aftermat

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Just one last drink
27 November 2006

Alcoholics plead that no one understands them. This film says: "We're trying"

Rain in My H

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Lest we forget, here's another reminder
20 November 2006

We're happy to remember past wars without addressing the one we're in

Kipling: a remembra

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