One of Britain’s best-known satirists, Ian Hislop’s early career involved penning sketches for Spitting Image (1984-88), and Harry Enfield, before he started writing screenplays. His writing credits include the BBC sitcom My Dad’s the Prime Minister (2003-04), and the film The Wipers Times (2013). But it was whilst at Oxford University that his journalism career started, interviewing the likes of Richard Ingrams – who was then the editor of Private Eye – for the magazine Passing Wind. Ian took over as editor in 1986, and has since reputedly been called “the most sued man in English legal history”.

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Ian is credited as the author of the recent Private Eye annuals (1997-present), as well as A Bunch of Amateurs (2017), I Object: Ian Hislop’s Search For Dissent (2018), and plays Trial By Laughter (2018), and Spike (2022). He also wrote the BBC Radio 4 series Gush and The News at Bedtime, and comedy anthology Murder Most Horrid (1991-98). He has also presented Radio 4 documentaries on topics such a scouting, tax rebellions, female hymn composers, and the patron saints of Britain and Ireland.

Whilst best known for his long-term appearances on Have I Got News For You, he has also appeared on Loose Talk (1983), Who Do You Think You Are (2004), The One Show (2008-23), Portrait Artist of the Year (2021), and Loose Women (2024).

He has hosted programmes including:

– School Rules (1997)

– Not Forgotten (2005-09)

– Not Forgotten: Shot at Dawn (2007)

– Not Forgotten: The Men Who Wouldn’t Fight (2008)

– Great Railway Journeys (1999)

– Ian Hislop’s Scouting For Boys (2007)

– Ian Hislop’s Age of the Do-Gooders (2010)

– When Bankers Were Good (2011)

– Ian Hislop’s Stiff Upper Lip – An Emotional History of Britain (2012)

– The Secret of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony (2016)

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