Amanda Foreman

Writer

Biography

Amanda Foreman is the author of the prize-winning best sellers, ‘Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire’ and ‘A World on Fire: A Epic History of Two Nations Divided’ She is currently a columnist for The Wall Street Journal. Her latest work is the BBC documentary series, ‘The Ascent of Woman’. In 2016, Foreman served as chair of The Man Booker Prize. Her book on the history of women, ‘The World Made by Women’ will be published in 2018. She is a co-founder of the literary nonprofit, House of SpeakEasy Foundation, a trustee of the Whiting Foundation, and an Honorary Research Senior Fellow in the History Department at the University of Liverpool. Amanda lives in New York with her husband and five children.

Credits

Radio

Production Company Notes
THE GEORGIANS
2014
BBC Radio 4

AS WRITER AND PRESENTER

THE PRIME MINISTERS
2011
BBC Radio 4

AS CONTRIBUTOR SERIES 2 EPISODE 2 ‘EARL GREY’

QUEEN VICTORIA
2001
BBC Radio 4

AS WRITER AND PRESENTER

QUEEN VICTORIA
2001
BBC Radio 4

AS WRITER AND PRESENTER

THE HISTORY OF THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT
1998
BBC Radio 4

AS WRITER AND PRESENTER

Television

Production Company Notes
ORIGINS
2017
NatGeo

AS SERIES CONSULTANT AND CONTRIBUTOR

THE ASCENT OF WOMAN
2015
BBC 2

AS WRITER AND PRESENTER

CODE PLAN RED
2011
Channel 5

AS CONTRIBUTOR

THIS WEEK
2011
BBC 2

AS WRITER AND PRESENTER EP 27 MAY

THIS WEEK
2011
BBC 2

AS WRITER AND PRESENTER EP 8 NOVEMBER

MARIE ANTOINETTE
2002
BBC 2/ Reputations

AS CONTRIBUTOR

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND HIS WOMEN
2002
Channel 4 Television

AS WRITER AND PRESENTER

NEWSNIGHT
1999
BBC Television

AS PRESENTER AND WRITER EP ‘THE ABOLITION OF THE HOUSE OF LORD: WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS’

THE PEOPLES' DUCHESS: GEORGINA, THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE
1999
Channel 4

AS CONSULTANT

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