Jonathan Miller

Born into an intellectual milieu, between Bloomsbury and Harley Street, Sir Jonathan Miller has since forged a career as an actor, theatre-maker and self-taught opera director. He is a satirist, humourist, public intellectual and TV personality.

Co-creator of the seminal comedy revue, Beyond the Fringe, his writing helped launch the careers of Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett. His talents and interests encompass many areas, from neuropsychology to the arts, atheism, criticism and comedy.

Rarely a man to say no, Sir Jonathan says that his reputation as a polymath rests on “being pathetically susceptible to someone knocking on my door with a frisbee in their hand saying “Do you want to come out and play?’”