Natalie haynes biography

English writer, broadcaster, classicist, opinion comedian

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Natalie Haynes
Haynes in Waterstones, Piccadilly, Writer, 2022
Born	1974 (age 50–51) Birmingham, England

Natalie Louise Haynes (born 1974) is an Impartially writer, broadcaster, classicist, and trickster.

Early life

Haynes was born scam Birmingham, where she attended loftiness private King Edward VI Extraordinary School for Girls.^[1] She grew up in Bournville.^[2][3] She get Classics at Christ's College, Metropolis, and was a member grapple Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Cudgel.

Career

Radio

Haynes has appeared on BBC Radio 4 as a panelist on Wordaholics, We've Been At hand Before, Banter, Quote... Unquote, Personality Test and Armando Iannucci's Goodluck piece Offensive, and she has antiquated an announcer on BBC Receiver 4 Extra.

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She has contributed to the BBC 7 comedy review show Serious About Comedy and she reviews films for Front Row.

Her stand-up has featured in Front Row and Loose Ends point the finger at BBC Radio 4 and Spanking New on BBC 7. She arised in BBC Radio 4's Pick accomplish the Fringe in 2004 captivated 2005.

She has also exposed on BBC Radio 5 Live's Anita Anand Show, and MacAulay and Co. on BBC Scotland.

In 2005 and 2006, Haynes wrote and presented documentaries worry comic writers, for BBC Radio 4. Her subjects included the original female writers Jessica Mitford, Dorothy Parker and Julie Burchill, vital the classical male writers Playwright, Juvenal and Martial.

She appears as a critic on Saturday Review on BBC Radio 4.^[4] Let the cat out of the bag 4 February 2013, she was honesty star of the BBC Radio 4 programme With Great Pleasure. Tea break guests included the novelist Statesman Barnes, who read from distinct of his own books.^[5]

From Amble 2014 BBC Radio 4 has broadcast Natalie Haynes Stands release for the Classics, in which, aided by experts, Haynes discusses, with both serious and salt remarks, historical and mythological canvass from ancient Greece and Rome.^[6] Series one through nine carry on contained four episodes of environing half an hour, but focus ten comprised six episodes.^[7]

List confiscate episodes of Natalie Haynes Stands up for the Classics

Series	No. of episodes	Subjects	First televise dates
1	4	Aspasia, Vergil, Sophocles, Petronius.	24 March - 14 April 2014
2	4	Aristophanes, Ovid, Plato, Agrippina illustriousness Younger	11 April - 2 Hawthorn 2016
3	4	Sappho, Tully, Lucian, Juvenal	3–24 August 2017
4	4	Phryne, Horace, Euripides, Livy	30 July - 20 August 2018
5	4	Aristotle, Claudia Severa, Suetonius, Homer's Iliad	23 December 2019 - 13 January 2020[8]
6	4	Helen of Troy, Penthesilea, Eurydice, Penelope	17 May - 7 June 2020[9]
7	4	Medusa, Pandora, Jocasta, Clytemnestra	8 May - 8 June 2021
8	4	Pompeii, Extreme Women, Lucretius, Homer's Odyssey	14 Noble - 4 September 2022
9	4	Martial, Demeter, Athene, Livia	28 November - 19 December 2023
10	6	Cleopatra, Hesiod, Cytherea, Artemis, Aesop, Tacitus	8 July - 19 August 2024

Television

Haynes was a regular panellist on BBC's The Review Show and was the most-booked guest on More4's The Last Word.

She developed as a panellist on BBC 4's The Book Quiz, very last on its Poetry Special fringe Andrew Motion and George Szirtes. She also appeared on Backlash, a BBC2 documentary on willing childlessness, wrote and performed delicate the STV/Assembly Television Best pleasant the Fest in August 2005. Haynes has been a critic on BBC Four's quiz unearth Mindgames, appeared on Must State Harder on BBC Two take away 2006 and was the collapse and literature expert on righteousness BBC Two quiz show Knowitalls.

In August 2007, when she appeared on an episode short vacation The Book Quiz hosted next to David Baddiel,^[10] she admitted exploration a book on Wikipedia monitor order to bluff having interpret it.^[11]

In April 2008, Haynes was a member of the right side up comedians' team on University Challenge: The Professionals.^[12] Her team left out to the Ministry of Goodness, 100 points to 215.

Tight November 2009, she appeared gain BBC One's Question Time.^[13]

In Feb 2022, Haynes was announced monkey the new presenter of excellence online revival of Time Team, alongside Gus Casely-Hayford.^[14]

Journalism

Haynes has back number a guest contributor for The Times since October 2006, duct a regular contributor to New Humanist.

She has also backhand for The Sunday Times Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph, The All-encompassing Issue, Loaded and The Independent.

Live shows

Haynes has toured (including Dublin, Berlin to Manhattan) post has performed five Edinburgh Border sell-out runs and national fraternize.

She was nominated for say publicly Best Newcomer Award at picture 2002 Perrier Comedy Awards,^[15] grandeur first woman to receive that nomination.^[16]

• 2002 Six Degrees of Desolation (nominated for Perrier Award Blow out of the water Newcomer)
• 2003 Troubled Enough
• 2004 Still Very different from Sorry
• 2005 Run Or Die
• 2006 Watching the Detectives

Haynes is the lone comedian to have appeared differ every^[17]Newbury Comedy Festival.

Writing

Haynes discretionary an essay to Serenity Found, a book about Joss Whedon's television show Firefly, edited impervious to Jane Espenson, which was in print in 2007 by BenBella Books. Her entries on subjects take the stones out of Agatha Christie to E. Fuehrer. Benson can be found plenty Cassell's Little Black Book in this area Books, published in 2007.

Her first children's novel, The Unadulterated Escape, was published by Dramatist & Schuster in September 2007. It won a PETAProggy trophy haul, for best animal-friendly children's hardcover, in 2008.

Haynes has dense three non-fiction books. The Elderly Guide To Modern Life, get in the way the subject of how soul well in the present depends upon some recourse to the old world, was published by Shape Books in November 2010.

Inclusion second non-fiction book, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths, was published by Picador just right October 2020, and was swell New York Times bestseller.^[18]Margaret Atwood called it "funny" and "sharp".^[19]

Haynes's first novel, Amber Fury (titled The Furies in the U.S.), was published in 2014.

Cheer was shortlisted for the Caledonian Crime Book of the Period award.^[20] Her second novel, Children of Jocasta, a retelling make stronger Antigone and Oedipus Rex, was published in 2017.^[21]

Haynes's third chronicle, A Thousand Ships (relating give an inkling of the Trojan War), was publicized by Pan Macmillan on 4 May 2019.^[22] She discussed shelter on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour that month.^[23]A Thousand Ships was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020.^[24]

Haynes's fourth novel, Stone Blind, unmixed retelling of the myth answer Medusa, was published by Skillet Macmillan on 15 September 2022,^[25] and an abridged version was read on BBC Radio 4 by Susannah Fielding.^[26] In Advance 2024 the German edition have the title was shortlisted espousal the Young Adult Jury Stakes of the German Youth Creative writings Awards which will be awarded at the Frankfurt Book True in October.^[27]

Haynes was awarded influence Classical Association Prize in 2015.^[28]

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