Julia Wheeler

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Journalist

Julia Wheeler is an experienced journalist and interviewer who worked for the BBC for more than 15 years, including as Gulf Correspondent. She continues to work as a freelance journalist.

 

An alumna of the Faber Academy, Julia has been chair and interviewer at several festivals including Cheltenham (Literature and Science). Julia wrote the award-winning book Telling Tales: An Oral History of Dubai, capturing stories of court intrigue, pearl diving and gold smuggling, plus the early days of education and banking.

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Daniel Finkelstein

Columnist and Associate Editor for The Times

Daniel Finkelstein, OBE, is the Associate Editor, a Columnist and Leader Writer for The Times. He also sits in the House of Lords as Lord Finkelstein.

As well as his weekly political column in the comment section and his Saturday Notebook, ...

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Hugo Rifkind

Columnist and presenter

Hugo Rifkind is a columnist, critic and leader writer for The Times and a presenter on Times Radio, having formerly been a columnist for the Spectator, GQ and the Herald. He is a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4’s comedy show The News Quiz, and an...

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Will Lyons

Wine writer and columnist

Described by The Spectator magazine as having one of the finest palates in Britain, Will Lyons is an award winning wine writer. For more than a decade he has published a weekly column on wine, formerly in The Wall Street Journal and now The Sunday...

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