Benjamin Ramm Frsa Email & Phone Number

Maiolo, Marches, Italy

London, United Kingdom

(by invitation of the RSA)

Essays, reportage, and book reviews for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Frieze, etc.

London, United Kingdom

Writer & presenter of The Unabomber - Pick of the Week in the Guardian, Telegraph and Radio Times, and Pick of the Day in the Times and Daily Mail. "The full amazing, appalling story is well told by Benjamin Ramm through archive and new interviews" (Guardian).Radio 4 programme page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07654x0World Service programme page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03vwfypBBC News Magazine essay: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36399515Writer & presenter of Mao's Golden Mangoes - Pick of the Day in The Times and The Independent, and Pick of the Week on Radio 4. Also broadcast on ABC Radio National, Australia.BBC News Magazine essay: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35461265 ("week's best reads")Radio 4 programme page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06zvb6kStorify of tweets & additional info: https://storify.com/BenjaminRamm/maos-golden-mangoesWriter & presenter of Captive Media: The Story of Patty Hearst, described by The Independent as "a brilliant exploration of a national soap opera"​.BBC News article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26647496Radio 4 programme page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03ygwmbStorify of tweets to accompany the broadcast: https://storify.com/BenjaminRamm/captive-media-the-story-of-patty-hearst

Cap D'Ail

London, United Kingdom

25+ articles & interviews at https://opendemocracy.net/author/benjamin-ramm

• Author of Citizens: A Manifesto (2011), featuring endorsements from Philip Pullman, Ariel Dorfman, Peter Tatchell, and Naomi Wolf (“an important, moving and powerful exposition of the democratic ideal”). Audio version recorded by the actor Dan Stevens.• Author of 'The Meaning of the Public in an Age of Privatisation', in Cultural Heritage Ethics: Between Theory & Practice (Cambridge Open Book, 2014), edited by Constantine Sandis, pp.31-40.

London

As editor of The Liberal magazine, and subsequently as an independent commentator:• BBC television (BBC News Channel, BBC One Breakfast, BBC Two Newsnight, Daily Politics), Sky News, ITV News, Channel 4 News, Channel 5 News, GMTV, Al Jazeera, NTN24, etc.• BBC World Service, Radio 5 Live, Radio 4 (Today, World at One, PM, Westminster Hour, etc), Radio 3 (Nightwaves), Radio 2 (Jeremy Vine Show), BBC Scotland, Wales, regional stations, LBC.• Widely quoted in the print press: Guardian, Observer, Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Independent, Daily & Sunday Telegraph, Daily & Sunday Express, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Evening Standard, Metro, Scotsman, Herald, New Statesman, Spectator, etc., as well as a number of non-British publications, including La Stampa and El Periódico. Interviewed in a range of magazines and newspapers, from Dazed & Confused to the Jewish Chronicle.

London & New York

• Commissioned & edited the work of a wide range of prominent writers, including Harold Bloom, Germaine Greer, Christopher Hitchens, Julia Kristeva, Martin Rees, Gillian Slovo, Garry Kasparov, Marina Warner, Robert Reich, Slavoj Žižek, Andrea Dworkin, Will Self, Wole Soyinka, Helen Suzman, Terry Eagleton, Liu Xiaobo, Helen Oyeyemi, AC Grayling, Elaine Showalter, Francis Wheen, Benny Morris, Xinran, Bryan Appleyard, Sarah Churchwell and Simon Sebag-Montefiore.• The magazine foregrounded the work of poets, musicians, photographers and visual artists, and featured new work by poets including Clive James, Al Alvarez, Simon Armitage, Fiona Sampson, Robert Conquest, George Szirtes, Owen Sheers, Dannie Abse, Ruth Padel and Nii Ayikwei Parkes, as well as numerous new voices published for the first time.• Author of The Obama Trilogy: “A fascinating and moving essay... cogently argued and inspiringly written” (Matthew Parris of The Times)