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

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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. 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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 Caroline’s Insta

Well, it felt brave writing it; brave publishing i

Well, it felt brave writing it; brave publishing it; and now super-brave posting it….from today’s YOU mag…and thank you for all the supportive comments sent privately that helped me take the final plunge to post it. #mail #mailonsunday #youmagazine #hoffmanprocess #hoffmanprocessuk

The Brutalist is an astonishing, monumental, maste

The Brutalist is an astonishing, monumental, masterful film that’s up there with the Godfather and Citizen Kane.

Loosely based on a true story, László Toth, a fictional modernist architect and Hungarian Jew, survives the Holocaust and emigrates to America to rebuild his life and career under the patronage of a super-wealthy man.

Adrien Brody (as Toth) gives a sublime performance (as good as his Academy Award-winning portrayal of Władysław Szpilmanin in Polanski’s The Pianist).

The Brutalist is directed and produced by Brady Corbet —from a screenplay that he co-wrote with Mona Fastvold. Shot on 70 mm (to give it, Corbet says, its 50s feel), it’s technically brilliant and panoramic. It also has a haunting score.

At 3 ½ hours long (including a 15- minute intermission), it’s extraordinary that this epic was made in 33 days (and on a budget of less than $10 million).

In the Q&A afterwards, Brady pitched it (in answers that he joked were almost as long as the film!) as a movie about architecture. But it’s also about the immigrant experience, capitalism and the corrupting influence of extreme wealth, antisemitism and xenophobia, imagination, human dignity, artistic integrity and the American dream. I would have gladly sat glued to it for another hour.

It’s being released in the UK 24 January 2025. The Oscars are calling….

#thebrutalist #universalpictures #adrienbrody #bradycorbet

My daughter @ellazbj took her borrowed dog out for

My daughter @ellazbj took her borrowed dog out for a walk in Sydney. The dog lay down and…..(you finish the story, please).
#dog #retriever #sydney

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

“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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