Miranda Sawyer

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Miranda Sawyer is an English journalist and broadcaster.

She grew up in Wilmslow, Cheshire with her brother Toby, an actor best known for his part in the short-lived revival of Crossroads, and took a degree in Jurisprudence at Pembroke College, Oxford. She moved to London to begin her career as a journalist.

In 1993, she became the youngest winner of the PPA Magazine Writer of the Year award for her work on Select magazine. She wrote a column for Time Out from 1993 to 1996 and one for The Mirror from 2000 to 2003. She is now a feature writer for The Observer and Esquire's motoring correspondent'. Her writing appears in GQ, Vogue and The Guardian and she is a regular critic at arts shows across all media, as well as a member of the judging panel for the 2007 Turner Prize.

In 2004, Miranda Sawyer wrote, researched and presented an hour-long documentary for Channel 4 about the age of consent entitled, Sex Before 16: How the Law Is Failing.

She also took part in a celebrity edition of BBC 2's afternoon quiz show, The Weakest Link.

Her first book Park and Ride, a travel book on the Great British suburbs, was published by Little, Brown and Company in 1999 and has been reprinted several times.

She is also an occasional guest on the UK arts programme Newsnight Review on BBC2 and also BBC Radio 2's Radcliffe and Maconie Show.