Caroline Phillips

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“Caroline Phillips is a tenacious and skilful writer with a flair for high quality interviewing and a knack for making things work.”
Paul Dacre, Editor-in-Chief of DMG Media; Former editor of the Daily Mail

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Review: Faith Healer At The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre

Country & Town House | 27 Mar 2024

Go and see this production of Faith Healer by Brian Friel, one of the greatest Irish dramatists; it’s mesmerising and moving. It’s a four-scene play in which three characters act out their memories alone on stage —monologues delivered by Frank the faith healer, his wife, Grace, and his manager, Teddy: three unreliable narrators.

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Caroline’s favourite articles

My first attempt at stand-up comedy … aged 64

The Times | 15 Jan 2024

I am onstage in front of 65 strangers who think I’m a stand-up comedian. I’ve never done anything like this before. Why have I agreed…

Caroline’s Life

Soukya: the Bangalore health retreat drawing a starry clientele — and interest from the NHS

FT Weekend | 29 Apr 2018

I am lying on a wooden massage bed as two women rub my naked body with hot pouches of cooked rice, milk and medicinal herbs.…

Sun, sea, sand and a spell of humanitarian intervention

The Sunday Times | 7 Sep 2014

As we stepped off the Dodekanisos Pride ferry onto the Greek island of Symi for our late August beach holiday, our thoughts were on sunbathing…

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Caroline Phillips is an award-winning journalist who played a key editorial role in launching the London Evening Standard’s much-imitated supplement, E.S, and wrote The Caroline Phillips Interview for the Evening Standard for many years – interviewing pop superstars to cabinet ministers and jailbirds. She worked next at the Express, and one of her stories made global headlines. Since going freelance in 1998, Caroline has continued to contribute to publications from the Financial Times to the Sunday Times and Harper’s Bazaar to Tatler.

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I love umbrellas. This one is particularly useful

RIP I once sat next to Dame Maggie Smith at a priv

How come everyone else can get into the North Sea

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Caroline is currently working on her first book, and has broadcast frequently on television and radio – from studio-based talk shows, radio discussion panels to news programme appearances.

Critics & Letters

“Caroline Phillips is a tenacious and skilful writer with a flair for high quality interviewing and a knack for making things work.”
Paul Dacre, Editor-in-Chief of DMG Media; Former editor of the Daily Mail

“I greatly enjoyed your Lorne Thyssen piece – as well as being tickled to read that he propositioned you. Does this mean his therapy for…”
John Preston, Journalist and best selling author

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Caroline Phillips

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Review: Faith Healer At The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre

Country & Town House | 27 Mar 2024

Caroline’s favourite articles

My first attempt at stand-up comedy … aged 64

The Times | 15 Jan 2024

Soukya: the Bangalore health retreat drawing a starry clientele — and interest from the NHS

FT Weekend | 29 Apr 2018

Sun, sea, sand and a spell of humanitarian intervention

The Sunday Times | 7 Sep 2014

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