Attila the Hen (BBC Radio 4) - Natalie Haynes

Natalie Haynes (born 1974) is a British comedian. She has been performing stand-up comedy since 1994 and was a member of Footlights at Cambridge University where she read Classics at Christ's College.

Haynes has been a panellist on We've Been Here Before, Banter, Quote... Unquote, Personality Test, and Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive on BBC Radio 4. Has contributed to BBC 7 comedy review show, Serious About Comedy and occasionally reviewed films for Front Row.

Her stand-up featured on Front Row and Loose Ends on BBC Radio 4, on BBC 7's Spanking New. She has also appeared in the BBC Radio 4 Pick of the Fringe in 2004 and 2005. She has also appeared on Radio Five Live's Anita Anand Show, and MacAulay and Co. on BBC Scotland.

In 2005 and 2006 Haynes wrote and presented documentaries on comic writers, for BBC Radio 4; modern female writers including Jessica Mitford and Dorothy Parker, and Aristophanes, Juvenal and Martial.

Haynes was a regular panelist on More4's The Last Word, and BBC Two's "Newsnight Review". She also appeared on Backlash, a BBC2 documentary on voluntary childlessness, wrote and performed in the STV/Assembly Television Best of the Fest in August 2005. Haynes has been a panellist on BBC Four’s quiz show, Mindgames, and featured on Must Try Harder on BBC Two in 2006.

In August 2007, she appeared on BBC Four's The Book Quiz hosted by David Baddiel. On the programme she admitted researching a book on Wikipedia in order to bluff having read it.

In April 2008 Haynes was a member of stand-up comedians team on University Challenge: The Professionals. Her team lost to the Ministry of Justice by 100 points to 215.

Haynes occasionally writes for the Sunday Telegraph, The Big Issue, and the Mail On Sunday's book review section.

Haynes has toured from Dublin and Berlin to Manhattan - and has performed five Edinburgh Fringe sell-out runs and national tours

* 2002 Six Degrees of Desolation (nominated for Perrier Award Best Newcomer)
* 2003 Troubled Enough
* 2004 Still Not Sorry
* 2005 Run Or Die
* 2006 Watching the Detectives

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