Harry Wallop is a consumer journalist, feature writer, columnist and broadcaster. He writes for a variety of national newspapers and magazines, particularly the Times, where he writes the weekly Harry Wallop column for the business pages, as well as the Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Guardian, Financial Times and Country Life. Harry is also an experienced television presenter and reporter, most notably presenting a clutch of Channel 4 Dispatches programmes: Secrets of Sports Direct, Secrets of Poundland, and Secrets of Cadbury, all of which are in the top five most watched Dispatches films of recent years. His most recent Dispatches films have been Did Brexit Work for Business? and The Truth About Food Prices. On Channel 5 Harry recently presented the...
Harry Wallop is a consumer journalist, feature writer, columnist and broadcaster.
He writes for a variety of national newspapers and magazines, particularly the Times, where he writes the weekly Harry Wallop column for the business pages, as well as the Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Guardian, Financial Times and Country Life.
Harry is also an experienced television presenter and reporter, most notably presenting a clutch of Channel 4 Dispatches programmes: Secrets of Sports Direct, Secrets of Poundland, and Secrets of Cadbury, all of which are in the top five most watched Dispatches films of recent years.
His most recent Dispatches films have been Did Brexit Work for Business? and The Truth About Food Prices.
On Channel 5 Harry recently presented the programme Supermarket Prices: Are We Being Ripped off?. He frequently contributes to the Channel 5 Secrets of… series of programmes, going behind the scenes at Aldi, Waitrose, Costco and the like. He also presented the segment, Wallop of the Week, on the Shop Smart, Save Money series (previously The Gadget Show), advising viewers on how to get the best deals.
Harry fronted the 8-part series Shop Secrets: Tricks of the Trade and the two-part programme, Something for Nothing, which looked at how you can live well for free. Harry also co-presented two series of Superscrimpers – all for Channel 4.
He is a regular talking head on BBC News, Good Morning Britain, Times Radio and Radio 4 on topics as broad as gadgets, utility bills, parenting controversies to the state of the high street and food prices.
Harry’s book Consumed: how we buy class in modern Britain, was published in paperback in March 2014 by William Collins.
