Caroline Phillips

Journalism

Caroline Phillips

“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

Caroline Phillips

Journalism

Broadcasting & Books

Caroline is currently working on her first book, and has contributed to two previous books. The world-wide bestseller, The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook by Peter York and Ann Barr and also The English Country Home, edited by Vanessa Berridge and published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson.

Caroline has also broadcast frequently on television and radio – from studio-based talk shows, radio discussion panels to news appearances. She has been interviewed on BBC Newsnight, Channel 4 News, BBC News at 10, The World At One and Sky News; has appeared as a pundit on magazine programmes from Kilroy to Richard Littlejohn’s show; and has made her mark in a range of regional studios from Brighton to Oxford.

Contributions

The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook

by Peter York; pub. Harpers & Queen

The first guide to what really matters in life… why it really matters to: wear navy blue; eat jelly with a fork; read Dick Francis and the FT; giggle in bed; cry when you sing carols; not cry at funerals; kill salmon; drink seriously; put the ‘Great’ into Britain and the ‘Hooray’ into Henry; and live in the country.

The English Country Home

Edited by Vanessa Berridge; pub. Weidenfeld and Nicholson

Shows and describes the background of a series of British mansions, farmhouses, country homes, and gardens, and includes converted chapels and schoolhouses.

Channel 4 News

Caroline being interviewed on Channel 4 about her Abortion of the healthy twin story.

Sky News

Caroline being interviewed on Sky News about her Abortion of the healthy twin story.

Caroline on LBC Radio

Caroline discussing the week’s news with Richard Littlejohn on LBC.

Bold

Caroline’s TV ad for Bold detergent.

Collaborations

“Caroline’s insights have informed all our doings over the years. As for her journalism, it’s terrifying. She alights on those terrible alignments between saying and doing, grand theories and holes in socks.”

Peter York, Author, broadcaster, columnist, management consultant and style guru

Topics

Publications

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About

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. 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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 Caroline’s Insta

Northern Lights. Think the red is the light from

Northern Lights. Think the red is the light from my car though. I spent two hours sitting by a lighthouse in the cold…waiting for it to happen. And then at midnight…
#northernlights #scotland #highlands

Broadcasting & Books

Caroline on ITN

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.

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Critics & Letters

“I must commend you for having the guts to stand up to that arrogant bully Norman Mailer who usually cows interviewers to such an extent…”
John Wilcock, Co-founder of The Village Voice with Norman Mailer (1927 - 2018)

“Caroline Phillips is a talented interviewer, a brilliant feature writer and a first class journalist.”
Allan Jenkins, then Editor, Observer Magazine

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