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Dominic Sandbrook

Dominic Sandbrook is one of Britain’s best-known historians. He is well known for his bestselling series of books on life in Britain from 1956 to 1979 – Never Had It So Good, White Heat, State of Emergency and Seasons in the Sun – and has also written two books on recent American history.

On television, his four-part series The Seventies, which he wrote and presented, aired on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ2 in April 2012 to great acclaim, while his series on Cold War Britain, Strange Days, will be shown on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ2 this autumn.

Dominic has presented numerous radio programmes including a Radio 4 landmark series on the history of the Post Office, an edition of the Archive Hour, a programme on 50 years of Prime Minister's Questions (Mind Your PMQs) and a documentary on the early history of radio (Tuning In). He has appeared on Front Row, Night Waves and ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ2's Newsnight Review, and is a regular guest on Radio 4’s Saturday Review.

Dominic was the historical consultant to the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ2 series The British Family and The British at Work, the Radio 4 series 1968: Day by Day, and Paula Milne’s ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ2 drama White Heat. He has been a judge for the Grierson Documentary Awards and was one of the panel of experts who selected the sixty names for the Radio 4 series The New Elizabethans.

He is a regular columnist for the Daily Mail and a book reviewer for the Sunday Times, and has written a column in ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ History for the last seven years. He is a keen though pessimistic fan of Wolverhampton Wanderers, and lives in Chipping Norton with his wife and son – though to his enduring disappointment, they are not members of the Chipping Norton Set. Well, not yet, anyway.