David Aaronovitch

David Aaronovitch is a journalist, broadcaster and columnist. He started his media career as a television researcher, working on programmes such as Weekend World and On The Record. Moving over to print journalism in 1995, David has worked for The Independent, Independent on Sunday, New Statesman, Guardian and Observer. Since 2005 he has been a regular contributor to The Times and the Jewish Chronicle. He is currently working on a series of interviews with former Prime Minister Tony Blair, to be shown on BBC1 later in the year. He won the George Orwell Prize for political journalism in 1998 and again in 2001. David published a book on conspiracy theory entitled Voodoo Histories and has recently been the chair on BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze. He is the son of the late economist and communist Sam Aaronovitch.


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Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History (Jonathan Cape, 2009)
Paddling to Jerusalem: An Aquatic Tour of Our Small Country (Fourth Estate, 2001)

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