Miranda Sawyer started her career at Smash Hits, before moving on to Select Magazine where she won the PPA Magazine Writer of the Year Award in 1993, the youngest person ever to do so.  A contracted feature writer for The Observer for over fifteen years, she is the paper’s radio critic and writes regularly on pop culture. She is the host of The Guardian’s popular Family Podcast and a presenter for BBC 2’s The Culture Show, specialising in contemporary music, art and theatre.