1. Ariane Sherine created the Atheist Bus Campaign, which ran in 13 countries during January 2009.
23 Facts About Ariane Sherine
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Ariane Sherine was expelled from school aged 16, and spent her late teens hanging out with the band Duran Duran at their studio.
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Ariane Sherine sang backing vocals and played piano on two tracks at the recording sessions for the Duran Duran album Pop Trash.
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Ariane Sherine started in journalism aged 21, reviewing albums for NME before coming runner-up in the BBC Talent New Sitcom Writers' Award 2002.
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Ariane Sherine did six months on the stand-up comedy circuit in 2003, reaching the Final of the Laughing Horse New Act of the Year.
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Ariane Sherine then wrote comedy for British TV shows including the BBC sitcoms My Family and Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, and links for the Channel 4 quiz show Countdown after appearing on the show in 2004.
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Ariane Sherine was diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder, paranoia and obsessive-compulsive disorder, for which she is on medication.
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Ariane Sherine returned to writing for The Guardian at the end of 2013.
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In October 2018, Ariane Sherine featured on the front cover of The Times as she was interviewed for T2 about her book on therapy, Talk Yourself Better, which was published by Hachette and featured interviews with celebrities including Stephen Fry, Charlie Brooker, David Baddiel and Dolly Alderton.
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How to Live to 100 was published on 1 October 2020 and featured Ariane Sherine interviewing celebrities such as Richard Osman, Derren Brown, Jeremy Vine, Charlie Brooker, Lou Sanders, Jon Holmes, Josie Long, Robin Ince, Robert Llewellyn, Yomi Adegoke, Bec Hill and more on topics related to health and longevity.
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Ariane Sherine was interviewed about the book by British Comedy Guide.
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Ariane Sherine was brought up Christian, although her late father was a Unitarian Universalist, while her mother's side of the family are Parsi Zoroastrians.
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In 2009, Ariane Sherine was nominated for Secularist of the Year 2009, a title awarded by the National Secular Society.
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In January 2009, Ariane Sherine gave a non-religious equivalent of Thought for the Day on Radio 4's iPM programme.
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Ariane Sherine spoke about accepting the beliefs of others as long as they are expressed peacefully, and how the freedom to hold them is more important than the beliefs themselves.
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Ariane Sherine's broadcast follows a similar one made by Richard Dawkins in 2002.
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In late 2009, Ariane Sherine announced that she was ceasing atheist campaigning and returning to journalism and writing a novel.
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In October 2009 the first atheist charity book, The Atheist's Guide to Christmas was released, which Ariane Sherine had been editing for the prior six months.
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Ariane Sherine's life story in the book was serialised in the Mail on Sunday and Ariane Sherine was a featured guest on BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends.
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In December 2013, Ariane Sherine launched a new campaign in The Guardian called Give Just One Thing, linked to a free e-book she had written called Give: How to Be Happy, available from the website givebook.
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Ariane Sherine has written for The Guardian about the physical violence and emotional abuse she received throughout her childhood at the hands of her late father, and about her experiences of domestic abuse during pregnancy from a former boyfriend, and her subsequent abortion.
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Ariane Sherine now has a young daughter, whom she describes as 'my amazingly wonderful girl.
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Ariane Sherine wrote and performed a song, "The Best Thing", to celebrate her daughter's 10th birthday.