Mariella Frostrup is a writer, broadcaster and campaigner. Her current broadcast projects include Radio 4’s long running weekly programme Open Book, BBC1's The Big Painting Challenge and Bringing Up Britain, the Radio 4 series which looks at the challenges of modern parenting.
Mariella has had her own weekly dilemma column, Dear Mariella, for the Observer newspaper for the last 15 years, and writes regularly for other newspapers and magazines. Wild Women, published in 2019 and curated by Mariella, is a collection of more than 50 of the greatest escapades ever experienced and told by women.
Mariella has been on the judging panels of various awards including The Booker Prize, The Turner Prize, The Amnesty International Media Awards, the London Film Festival and The RIBA Stirling Prize Awards. Mariella is a Trustee of The Great Initiative; a charity which promotes gender equality. She lives in Somerset with her husband and two children.