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Andrew William Scott Billen (born 30 December 1957) is a British journalist, children's author, and staff feature writer onThe Times newspaper.
Andrew Billen was born in London on 30 December 1957 and brought up inBrentwood, Essex. He attendedBrentwood School from 1965 to 1977, which at the time was still adirect grant grammar school. He gained aBA in English fromChrist Church, Oxford in 1980.
Billen started on newspapers at theSheffield Star, a daily newspaper acrossSouth Yorkshire. From 1984 he was a writer on the Times Diary forThe Times and became the paper's arts correspondent in 1988. In 1989 he moved toThe Observer. In 1997 he joined the LondonEvening Standard as chief interviewer.
He returned toThe Times in 2002, where he wrote the weekly "The Andrew Billen Interview" for five years. He was the paper's main television reviewer from 2007 to 2017. For ten years up to 2007 he worked in a freelance capacity as theNew Statesman′s TV critic. He later became the magazine's theatre reviewer.
In 2006 he won a prize at thePress Gazette′sMagazine Design & Journalism Awards. In 2008 he was again critic of the year in the same awards. He has been shortlisted six times for interviewer of the year in the UK Press Awards, most recently in March 2021 when he was also shortlisted for feature writer of the year. In 2020 he was shortlisted as interviewer of the year in the British Journalism Awards.
In 2022 he was presenter and reporter of a five-part Story of Our Times podcast, The Feud, about a dispute between Christ Church, Oxford and the college's dean, Martyn Percy.
He is married and lives in Oxford with his wife, Lucy, and two daughters, Abby and Orla.
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