Ian Hislop

Ian Hislop

Ian Hislop has edited Private Eye since 1986, taking over the helm from Richard Ingrams and steering it to ever greater commercial and satirical success.

He is also known to millions as team captain on Have I Got News For You?, which has won numerous awards including a BAFTA for Best Light Entertainment.

Ian has made countless television and radio appearances, as panellist, essayist and presenter. Credits range from Newsnight Review, Question Time and University Challenge (‘The Professionals’), to Radio 4 series on the history of tax, the Victorians and church architecture. Most recently he presented an edition of BBC2′s Who Do You Think You Are? in which he attempted to trace his genealogy, and The Lost Generation, a four-part series detailing the lives of numerous individuals and groups of people lost in the First World War.

As a writer, Ian progressed from Spitting Image to write sketches for Harry Enfield and television plays for Maureen Lipman and Dawn French. Most recently he co-wrote the family sitcom, My Dad’s the Prime Minister.

Ian Hislop was honoured to receive the British Society of Magazine Editor’s highest award, The Editor’s Editor.

Ian Hislop is available as a popular after-dinner speaker and awards host.