Autor/-in: Sweet Matthew

Matthew Sweet is co-writer, with Mark Gatiss, of Bookish. He presents Free Thinking. on BBC Radio 4 and Sound of Cinema. on BBC Radio 3. He is the author of Inventing the Victorians. , Shepperton Babylon. , The West End Front. and Operation Chaos. His 25 years of television and radio programmes include The Culture Show. , Checking into History. , five series of The Philosopher's Arms. and 1922: The Birth of Now. , a ten-part history of modernism. He has been film critic of the Independent on Sunday. , photography critic of Newsweek. and fashion columnist for 1843/The Economist. His film Liberation Radio. screened in the 2021 London Film Festival and at the Manzi gallery in Hanoi. In 2017 he and the baker Frances Quinn achieved a chocolate-related Guinness World record that held good until 2022, when it was broken by Ant and Dec. His crime novel The New Forest Murders. and his biography The Great Dictator: The Life of Barbara Cartland. are forthcoming.