
Ian Hislop
Department: Acting
Biography
Ian David Hislop is a British journalist, satirist, writer, broadcaster, and editor of the magazine Private Eye. He has appeared on many radio and television programmes, and has been a team captain on the BBC quiz show Have I Got News for You since the programme's inception in 1990.
Known For

Have I Got News for You: The Best of the Guest Presenters Volume 2
2005

Have I Got News for You: The Best of the Guest Presenters
2003

Have I Got News for You: The Official Pirate Video
1997

Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
1995

Ian Hislop: When Bankers Were Good
2011

Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe
2002

50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014

Amnesty International's Big 30
1991

A Very British Sex Scandal: The Love Child & the Secretary
2024

The Secret Life of Sue Townsend (Aged 68 3/4)
2016

Scouting for Boys
2007

The Very Best of 'Have I Got News for You'
2002

Ian Hislop's Changing of the Bard
2009

Who Should We Let In? Ian Hislop on the First Great Immigration Row
2017

Ian Hislop Goes Off The Rails
2008

Ian Hislop's Fake News: A True History
2019

Best Ever Spitting Image
2006

Whatever Happened to Spitting Image?
2010

The One Show
2006

The South Bank Show
1978

Room 101
1994

Who Do You Think You Are?
2004

Question Time
1979

Ian Hislop's Stiff Upper Lip
2012

Plunder
1990

Not Forgotten
2005

Ian Hislop's Age Of The Do-Gooders
2010

Ian Hislop's Trains That Changed the World
2021

Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
2017

The One Show
2006

Have I Got News for You
1990

Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story
2022

Ian Hislop's Olden Days
2014

Peston
2018

The Island
2010

Have I Got a Bit More News for You
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A House Through Time
2018

Years and Years
2019

Great Railway Journeys
1980

Omnibus
1967

Parkinson
1998

What's the Monarchy For?
2025