1. Natalie Louise Haynes was born on 1974 and is an English writer, broadcaster, classicist, and comedian.
24 Facts About Natalie Haynes
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Natalie Haynes read Classics at Christ's College, Cambridge, and was a member of Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club.
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Natalie Haynes has appeared on BBC Radio 4 as a panellist on Wordaholics, We've Been Here Before, Banter, Quote.
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Natalie Haynes has contributed to the BBC 7 comedy review show Serious About Comedy and she reviews films for Front Row.
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Natalie Haynes's stand-up has featured in Front Row and Loose Ends on BBC Radio 4 and Spanking New on BBC 7.
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Natalie Haynes has appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live's Anita Anand Show, and MacAulay and Co.
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In 2005 and 2006, Natalie Haynes wrote and presented documentaries on comic writers, for BBC Radio 4.
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Natalie Haynes's subjects included the modern female writers Jessica Mitford, Dorothy Parker and Julie Burchill, and the classical male writers Aristophanes, Juvenal and Martial.
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Natalie Haynes appears as a critic on Saturday Review on BBC Radio 4.
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Natalie Haynes's guests included the novelist Julian Barnes, who read from one of his own books.
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From March 2014 BBC Radio 4 has broadcast Natalie Haynes Stands up for the Classics, in which, aided by experts, Haynes discusses, with both serious and humorous remarks, historical and mythological figures from ancient Greece and Rome.
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Natalie Haynes was a regular panellist on BBC's The Review Show and was the most-booked guest on More4's The Last Word.
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Natalie Haynes appeared as a panellist on BBC 4's The Book Quiz, and on its Poetry Special alongside Andrew Motion and George Szirtes.
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Natalie Haynes has been a panellist on BBC Four's quiz show Mindgames, appeared on Must Try Harder on BBC Two in 2006 and was the art and literature expert on the BBC Two quiz show Knowitalls.
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Natalie Haynes's team lost to the Ministry of Justice, 100 points to 215.
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In February 2022, Natalie Haynes was announced as the new presenter of the online revival of Time Team, alongside Gus Casely-Hayford.
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Natalie Haynes has been a guest contributor for The Times since October 2006, and a regular contributor to New Humanist.
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Natalie Haynes has written for The Sunday Times Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph, The Big Issue, Loaded and The Independent.
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Natalie Haynes has toured and has performed five Edinburgh Fringe sell-out runs and national tours.
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Natalie Haynes was nominated for the Best Newcomer Award at the 2002 Perrier Comedy Awards, the first woman to receive this nomination.
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Natalie Haynes is the only comedian to have appeared at every Newbury Comedy Festival.
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Natalie Haynes contributed an essay to Serenity Found, a book about Joss Whedon's television show Firefly, edited by Jane Espenson, which was published in 2007 by BenBella Books.
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Natalie Haynes's second non-fiction book, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths, was published by Picador in October 2020, and was a New York Times bestseller.
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Natalie Haynes discussed it on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour that month.