Hannah MacInnes is a broadcaster, journalist and podcaster, who has conducted interviews with hundreds of figures from culture and politics. She regularly appears on Times Radio and currently leads the How To Academy‘s live events schedule and podcast series. Her writing has featured in the Radio Times, The Standard, TLS, and writes on Substack as The Conversationist.

Adept at exploring current global topics, Hannah particularly excels at examining where politics meets culture. Her thoughtful commentary on subjects from environmental concerns to literary figures stems from her thoroughly rigorous research approach, creating an inquisitive, dynamic, engaging and accessible perspective on diverse topics.

During her eight-year tenure as Planning Editor at BBC Newsnight, where she also worked as Producer/Filmmaker, she landed interviews with politcal figures like Silvio Berlusconi, Mikhail Gorbachev and Hillary Clinton and actors such as Helen Mirren and Mark Rylance.

Through her fireside chat interview style, Hannah has conducted detailed discussions with personalities including Bill Clinton, Melinda Gates, Madeleine Albright, Jeremy Hunt, Ed Miliband, Rory Stewart, Dame Jane Goodall, Louis Theroux, Philip Pullman, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sean Penn, David Mitchell, Carlo Rovelli, Courtney Love, Nadiya Hussain, David Olusoga, Dolly Alderton, Claudia Winkleman, Mike Leigh and countless others.

Hannah MacInnes also moderates at various significant literary festivals, conferences and discussions, including the annual Culture Summit Abu Dhabi and Blue Earth Summit.

Additionally, she presents The Klosters Forum Podcast, which examines environmental topics and across its three series has explored plastic pollution, food systems’ effects on biodiversity and the built environment.

Most recently she has been the host of a podcast for The British Book Awards.

At Chelsea Arts Festival, Hannah will be interviewing actor, writer and director Rupert Everett in a special live event at Cadogan Hall.