Toby Young
Toby Young is an associate editor of the Spectator and a blogger for the Telegraph. He is the author of two books, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (2001) and The Sound of No Hands Clapping (2006), and has performed in the West End in a stage adaptation of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. He co-produced the film version of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) and more recently co-produced and co-wrote a dramadoc for More4 called When Boris Met Dave (2009).
His teaching experience includes working as a teaching fellow at Harvard and a teaching assistant at Cambridge. He is the co-founder of the West London Free School which became the first free school to sign a Funding Agreement earlier this year.
TELEVISION
2010 Shocked Britain (contributor) - Current TV
2010 The Alan Titchmarsh Show (contributor) - Spun Gold for ITV
2010 Market Kitchen's Big Adventure (contributor) - Optomen for the Good Food Channel
2010 Start Your Own School (presenter) - Optomen for Channel 4
2009 The Culture Show (contributor) – In house for BBC2
2009 When Boris Met Dave (co-writer and co-producer) – Blink for More4
2009 Top Judge (judge) – Magical Elves production for Bravo
2008 Heston Blumenthal’s Feast – Optomen for Channel 4
2008 Prisoner X (presenter) – Diverse for Virgin 1
2008 Top Chef (judge) – Magic Elves productions for Bravo USA
2008 Eating with Enemy – RDF for BBC
2008 The Culture Show contributor) – Inhouse for BBC2
2007 British Film Forever (contributor) – In house for BBC2
2007 The Grumpy Guide to Food and Wine (contributor) – In house for BBC2
2007 The Grumpy Guide to Fashion (contributor) – In house for BBC2
2007 Newsnight Review (panelist) – In house for BBC2
2006 Grumpy Old New Year (contributor) In house for BBC2
2006 When Toby Met Julie (contributor) In house for BBC4
2006 Come Dine With Me (contributor) LWT for Channel 4
2004-5 Question Time (contributor) Mentorn Productions for BBC1
2002 Newnight Review (panelist) – In house BBC2
RADIO
2010-2012 7 Day Sunday (panelist) – Avalon for BBC Radio Five
2010 Quote, Unquote (contributor) – Inhouse BBC for BBC Radio 4
FILMS
2008 How To Lose Friends and Alienate People (co-producer)
BOOKS
2008 Reality Matters (contributor), IT Books
2006 The Sound of No Hands Clapping (author) – Little Brown Book Group
2001 How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (author) – Da Capo Press
JOURNALISM
2011 Shortlist: Steve Jobs Obituary (columnist)
2009 The Times (Film Critic)
2009 The Independent on Sunday (Restaurant Critic)
2006 The Spectator (Associate Editor and Columnist)
2006-09 The Guardian (columnist)
2004-05 The Mail on Sunday (columnist)
2001-06 The Spectator (Drama Critic)
2000 GQ (Special Correspondent)
2000-09 Tatler (Contributing Editor)
1995-98 Vanity Fair (Contributing Editor)
1991-95 The Modern Review (Editor-in-Chief)
