Phil Tinline

Phil Tinline graduated from Oxford University in 1995 and has worked as a theatre director, television researcher and freelance journalist. For the past five years he has produced arts programmes, discussions and documentaries for BBC Radio, including many editions of Radio 4’s arts news programme FRONT ROW and Radio 3’s ideas and culture strand, NIGHT WAVES.

His documentary series for Radio 4 include "Out of the Blue", about the impact of extreme weather on writers’ imaginations, and three high-profile series about the history of education since the war: "Comp", presented by Evan Davis, "The Idea of a University", presented by Martha Kearney, and "Turn Over Your Papers … Now!", presented by John O’Farrell.

As a freelance journalist he has written about contemporary theatre for the INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY. His television work includes a contemporary history series for BBC4, WITNESS TO HISTORY, which involved in-depth interview-driven research into its three subjects – the Big Bang in the City, rail privatisation and the internal war in the Labour Party in 1981.

Phil is now working on his first book, an alternative history of twentieth-century Britain to be titled A VERY BRITISH DICTATORSHIP. He lives in London.