Olly Mann

Olly Mann is a writer and presenter. With long-time collaborator Helen Zaltzman he hosts the award-winning comedy podcast Answer Me This! (answermethispodcast.com), the BBC 5 Live series Web 2010 with Helen and Olly, and the VisitBritain video series Helen and Olly's Great British Questions (youtube.com/helenandolly). Helen and Olly are resident internet experts on Steve Wright in the Afternoon (BBC Radio 2) and Saturday Edition (BBC 5 Live), and appear regularly on Technology Unplugged (Sky News), The Late Show with Ian Collins (TalkSPORT) and LBC. Their podcast attracts over two million downloads per year and has been named as 'Critic's Choice' in The Times, Time Out, The Guardian, Q Magazine, Radio Times, and The Independent. In 2010 they won a Sony Radio Academy Award for Best Internet Programme and their first book, Answer Me This!, is to be published by Faber.

Olly has written for The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, BBC Online, The Word and The Observer, and has produced and directed for TV shows including The Culture Show (BBC2) and The London Programme (ITV1). Olly appears regularly reviewing newspapers on Breakfast (BBC 1), The Alan Titchmarsh Show (ITV1), Sunrise (Sky News), BBC News Channel, Stephen Nolan (BBC 5 Live) and Saturday Live (Sky News), and is the gadget expert for British Forces News (BFBS). His other guest credits include This Morning (ITV1), SkyNews.Com (Sky News), More 4 News (More 4), The Breakfast Show (BBC London) and Richard Bacon (BBC 5 Live).

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