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On my radar: Charlie Brooker’s cultural highlights

Born in Reading in 1971, Charlton “Charlie” Brooker started to write TV reviews for the in 2000, winning the British Press award for columnist of the year in 2009. He has written for television programmes including , , and . In 2011 he created , a speculative fiction show on Channel 4 (and later on Netflix) set in a succession of near-future dystopias, for which he has won five Emmy awards. He lives in London with his wife, Konnie Huq, and their two children. is on Netflix now.

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