Janice Hadlow

Janice Hadlow is Controller of BBC2 and BBC4. In her previous roles as joint Head of History at the BBC and Head of History at Channel 4, she was responsible for commissioning some of the most influential history series of our time from, among others, Simon Schama, David Starkey and Niall Ferguson. Most recently she has introduced to BBC2 a new generation of historians, including Mary Beard, Amanda Vickery, David Reynolds and Lucy Worsley. This is her first book.