Natalie is a regular panellist on BBC2’s The Review Show, and appeared on Newsnight Review for its final three years, including its 2009 visit to the Cannes Film Festival, and the last ever show in December 2009.

Natalie Haynes specialised early, taking triple Classics at A-level. She graduated from Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1996. Her documentary on Greek Tragedy and soap opera, Oedipusenders, was broadcast on Radio 4 in April 2010. Her next documentary, provisionally entitled Attila the Hen, will be about urban chicken keeping.

Natalie’s new book, The Ancient Guide To Modern Life, will be published by Profile Books in November 2010. It’s about how the modern world is more interesting when it’s refracted through the prism of the ancient one.

She has been a Guest Contributor for The Times since October 2006, and a regular contributor to The New Humanist. She has also written for the Sunday Times Magazine, Guardian, Sunday Telegraph, Independent, and Observer.