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Natalie Haynes specialised early, taking triple Classics at A-level. She graduated from Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1996. She is an award-winning comedian, journalist, and broadcaster. She is a regular panellist on BBC2’s Newsnight Review, Radio 4’s Saturday Review, and the long-running arts show, Front Row. She wrote and presented Classical Comedy, a programme about how modern comedians steal all of their techniques, and some of their jokes, from the Greeks and Romans, which was broadcast on Radio 4 in 2007. She has recently become the arts and literature expert (their word, not hers) for the BBC2 quiz show, Knowitalls.

She has been a guest columnist for the Times since 2006, and also writes for The Sunday Times Magazine.