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Comedy Controller: Grace Dent

Grace Dent

19/01/2013

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Comedy Controller, Grace Dent

Novelist, TV critic and comedian Grace Dent takes command.

Novelist, TV critic and comedian Grace Dent takes command. Among her choices: Thom Tuck Goes to DVD and Meet David Sedaris.

Novelist, TV critic and funny person Grace Dent takes control of BBC Radio 4 Extra. Her choices : Meet David Sedaris, Mickey Flanagan: What Chance Change, In and Out of the Kitchen, Laura Solon - Talking and Not Talking, Down the Line and Thom Tuck Goes Straight to DVD. 

An established journalist, Grace writes regularly for The Independent and London Evening Standard, as well as magazines like She, Tatler and Marie Claire. She's also written 11 novels for teenagers, including the successful Diary of a Chav and Diary of a Snob series. Grace also wrote a tome on Twitter (and how to leave it), and has fronted BBC Radio 4 documentaries about Nancy Mitford, among others. She's interviewed 'Game of Thrones' scribe George Martin and also presented Grace Dent's Guide to Growing Up a Girl, also on 4 Extra.

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