John Eidinow

John Eidinow was educated at King's School, Worcester and at
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he read law.
Between school and university, he did two years National
Service in the army, training as a Russian linguist.

After university, he was called to the Bar and practised for
four years before working for the BBC first as a television
director/producer, then as a freelance
presenter/interviewer. For over twenty-five years, he
presented daily and weekly news and current affairs
programmes for the BBC World Service as well as weekly
public affairs programmes and many domestic and foreign
documentaries for Radio 4.

He has also worked as a media, presentation and speech
trainer since leaving the BBC's full-time staff.

John's first book, co-written with David Edmonds, was
WITTGENSTEIN'S POKER: THE STORY OF A TEN MINUTE ARGUMENT
BETWEEN TWO GREAT PHILOSOPHERS and was published by Faber in
2001. They followed this with BOBBY FISCHER GOES TO WAR, an
account of the famous chess match in Reykjavik.

John lives in north London, and is married with three children.