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Polly
Toynbee
columnist |
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| DOB : | 27. 12. 1946 |
| EDUCATION : |
Badminton School, Holland Park Comprehensive St Annes College Oxford (Scholarship – History) |
| CAREER : |
The Observer – reporter The Washington Monthly ( USA) – co-editor The Observer – feature writer The Guardian – columnist BBC – Editor Social Affairs, TV & Radio (until 1996) The Independent, columnist The Guardian Columnist 1998 |
| BROADCASTING EXPERIENCE : | Extensive |
| BOOKS : |
‘A Working Life’ 1970 ( study of unskilled work) ‘Hospital’ Portrait of the NHS ‘The way we Live now’ journalism ‘Lost Children’ on adoption - 1985 |
| AWARDS : |
British Journalism Award – Columnist of the Year 1998 What the Paper Say Award – Commentator of the Year 1997 George Orwin Prize 1997 |
| INTERESTS : | |
| GENERAL : | various committees a the Department of Health, including National Screening Committee 1980 Williams Committee of Obscenity and Film Censorship |