Matthew Stadlen

Matthew Benedict Stadlen[1] (born 7 December 1979) is an English radio and television presenter, producer and writer.

Matthew Stadlen
Matthew Stadlen in Wales, 2015
Born
Matthew Benedict Stadlen

(1979-12-07) 7 December 1979
Hammersmith, London, England
EducationSt Paul's School, London
Alma materClare College, Cambridge
OccupationTelevision presenter, television producer
Known forFive Minutes With... LBC Overnight Weekend Presenter 2016-2020

He was a weekend presenter on LBC between October 2016 and September 2020, when major changes to the autumn schedule were announced. He also stood in for other presenters on the station during the week.[2] He previously presented the BBC interview series Five Minutes With... and the BBC documentary series "On the Road with..." His interviews and documentaries have appeared throughout the BBC television network. He also wrote comment pieces and had an interview column with The Daily Telegraph, "The Matthew Stadlen Interview".

Stadlen has hosted 200 live events around the UK. He has interviewed Sir Michael Caine, John Cleese, Dame Darcey Bussell, Carlos Acosta, Rory Bremner, Omid Djalili, Juliet Stevenson, Sir Vince Cable and others on stage.[3]

Background

Stadlen is the grandson of Austrian Jews, the concert pianist Peter Stadlen and Hedi Stadlen, the activist and musicologist, both born in Vienna. Matthew was born to Sir Nicholas Stadlen, a High Court judge (who holds the record for the longest speech in English legal history at 119 days)[4] and Frances Stadlen in London.

He attended St Paul's School (the same school his father had attended), and later graduated from Clare College, Cambridge, with a first-class honours degree in Classics.

He has said that he gets his ginger hair from his Jewish great, great uncle, Onkl Friedl.[5] He considers himself half Jewish and has spoken out against anti-Semitism many times.[6] He is the great, great, great nephew of Johann Strauss II.

Career

Stadlen worked as a journalist on The Bulletin in Brussels and co-wrote The Politics Companion (2004), before joining the BBC in September 2004.

He worked as a producer on the BBC One show This Week and output edited some of the programmes, and also worked on Newsnight.

Stadlen presented and produced Five Minutes With... from 2008, interviewing over 220 public figures, including Elle Macpherson, Stephen Fry, Richard Dawkins, Martin Amis, Peter Hitchens, Serena Williams and Ricky Gervais.[7] He made 29 documentaries for the BBC News Channel series On The Road With.... Subjects included Nigel Kennedy, Tracey Emin, Nicola Benedetti, Rabbi Dr Harvey Belovski, Stuart Broad, Eton Head Master Tony Little, Bryn Terfel and Elle Macpherson.[8]

Stadlen has interviewed for The Spectator[9] and extensively for the Radio Times,[10] and has worked as a consultant on the ITV political programme, Peston on Sunday. He also had an interview column with The Daily Telegraph, "The Matthew Stadlen Interview", for which he interviewed famous figures including John Cleese, Sir David Attenborough and Dawn French.[11]

Stadlen has been a birdwatcher since early childhood and is passionate about the natural world. He is the author of How To See Birds, a book that encourages people to open their eyes and ears to the everyday beauty of the bird life on their doorstep and beyond. It is published by Papadakis and illustrated with his own photographs from home and abroad.

References
  1. "Search Results for England | findmypast.co.uk". www.findmypast.co.uk.
  2. "LBC". LBC.
  3. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/events/telegraphbespoke/the-telegraph-legends-series/an-evening-with-darcey-and-carlos/
  4. Bowers, Simon (25 May 2005). "QC completes longest speech in legal history". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
  5. Stadlen, Matthew (11 November 2013). "Family history: retracing the steps of a romance disrupted by war". ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  6. "Matt Stadlen's Very Personal Reason Why Anti-Semitism Matters". LBC. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  7. "Five Minutes With...". BBC. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
  8. "On The Road With...". BBC. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
  9. "Author: Matthew Stadlen - The Spectator". The Spectator.
  10. "Graham Norton reveals the secrets of 'chat choreography' – and why he wouldn't work on ITV". Radio Times.
  11. Stadlen, Matthew (21 June 2015). "Father's Day: The things my dad taught me". The Telegraph.
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