About Andrew
I’m a journalist, writer, story editor and podcast consultant with over two decades of editorial experience. I’ve been a senior editor at The Financial Times, The Guardian and Prospect magazine, contributed to publications including The New York Times and The New Yorker, made series for the BBC and Sony, delivered educational projects with the British Council, and taught at institutions including Birkbeck, University of London.
Journalism
I’ve contributed essays, reporting and criticism to The Guardian, The New York Times, The New Yorker, 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. And I’ve worked as a senior editor at the Guardian and Prospect, most recently on the longform desk of the FT, commissioning FT Big Reads and editing visual investigations.
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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 critic and commentator on shows including The Big Questions (BBC 1) and Front Row (BBC Radio 4).
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 2014–21.
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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.
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