About Andrew
I’m a journalist, writer, story editor, exec and podcast consultant with a specialism in longform and over two decades of editorial experience. I’ve made series for the BBC and Sony, been a senior editor at The Financial Times, The Guardian and Prospect magazine, contributed to publications including The New Yorker and The New York Times, delivered international educational projects with the British Council, and taught at institutions including Warwick and Birkbeck, University of London.
Podcast and broadcast
I love audio of all shapes and sizes. I’ve story edited and exec’d major investigative podcast series, worked as a development consultant, and written/hosted my own documentaries for BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3 and the World Service. I’ve also appeared as a specialist commentator on shows including Front Row (BBC Radio 4), Free Thinking (BBC Radio 3), Q (CBC), The New Yorker Radio Hour (WNYC), and TV series on BBC, Channel 4 and WGBH.
Journalism
I’ve worked as a senior editor at the Guardian, Prospect and (most recently) on the longform desk of the FT, commissioning FT Big Reads and editing visual investigations.
I’ve also contributed essays, reporting and criticism to The New York Times, The Financial Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The New Statesman, Prospect magazine and BBC Culture, alongside numerous other outlets.
My background is in culture, but I’ve written on everything from the history of dictionaries to why the future of architecture is wooden.
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Books
I’m a published author with a special interest in Shakespeare. My award-winning travelogue Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe, came out in 2015, and I’m also the author of The Globe Guide to Shakespeare (formerly the Rough Guide), a handbook for students and theatregoers, published in an updated edition by Profile Books in 2016.
Teaching and live events
I've given talks at venues including the British Library and the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and I’ve worked extensively on educational projects with the British Council in India, Germany and Russia.
Where people are kind enough to have me, I also moonlight as an academic. I’ve presented research at international conferences in Paris and Delhi, and taught at institutions including SOAS, King’s College London and Queen Mary, University of London.
In 2014, I was a visiting fellow at the Department for English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. I was an honorary fellow in the English department of Birkbeck, University of London from 2014 to 2021.
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And the rest ...
I grew up in Yorkshire, and I’ve lived happily in east London since 2007. I also spend as much time as I can in New York. A keen musician, I sing in several semi-professional choirs. I’m also an enthusiastic photographer, who’s studied at MIT and the London Institute of Photography (you can see some of my work on my Instagram page).
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