Andrew Billen
feature writer, the times
Andrew Billen has been a journalist for 40 years, including two stints on The Times from 1984-89 and from 2002 to the present. He specialises in interviews with celebrities, politicians and writers as well as writing long-form features for the magazine. For ten years he was also The Times's television critic. He has been shortlisted six times for interviewer of the year in the UK Press Awards, most recently in March 2021 when he was also shortlisted for Feature Writer of the Year. In 2020 he was shortlisted as Interviewer of the Year in the British Journalism Awards. In 2022 he was the presenter and reporter of a five-part Story of Our Times podcast, The Feud, about a dispute between Christ Church, Oxford, and the college's dean, Martyn Percy. He lives in Oxford with his wife and two daughters.