Rosie Millard OBE is a journalist and broadcaster who has been reporting on and writing in the national press on the arts, popular culture, lifestyle, and politics for over 30 years. Rosie was the BBC Arts Correspondent from 1995 to 2004, and the Arts Editor at the New Statesman from 2004 to 2007. She has also been a theatre critic, columnist, feature writer, travel writer, and profile writer, contributing to most of the national broadsheets. She is a familiar voice on radio and a familiar face on TV, with regular appearances on Times Radio, Radio 4, Radio 2, Five Live, Newsnight, and Sky News. Rosie has been the Chair of BBC Children in Need, Chair of Firstsite Arts Centre in...
Rosie Millard OBE is a journalist and broadcaster who has been reporting on and writing in the national press on the arts, popular culture, lifestyle, and politics for over 30 years. Rosie was the BBC Arts Correspondent from 1995 to 2004, and the Arts Editor at the New Statesman from 2004 to 2007. She has also been a theatre critic, columnist, feature writer, travel writer, and profile writer, contributing to most of the national broadsheets. She is a familiar voice on radio and a familiar face on TV, with regular appearances on Times Radio, Radio 4, Radio 2, Five Live, Newsnight, and Sky News.
Rosie has been the Chair of BBC Children in Need, Chair of Firstsite Arts Centre in Colchester, Deputy Chair of Opera North, and Chair for Hull 2017 City of Culture. The latter was a £35 million national event that achieved unprecedented acclaim and international repute for the city of Hull, for which she was appointed OBE. Rosie is now the Chair of the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT) and President of the Philip Larkin Society.
Rosie has written four books, one of which, The Tastemakers: British Art Now, is recommended reading for arts students at the University of the Arts London. She also presented Dead Famous, a three-part podcast series for BBC Radio 4 that analyses the legacies of artists who have gained posthumous recognition and fame.
Rosie is a dedicated marathon runner with eleven marathons under her belt and a personal best of 3:48. She is one of only 2,000 women in the world to have run all six Marathon Majors. She has also run the Great Wall of China Marathon.
She studied at Hull University, the London College of Communication, and the Courtauld Institute. She has four children and lives by a canal in central London with her partner, Alex Graham.
