Viv Groskop

Writer, comedian and presenter

Judge , 2019

Viv Groskop is a writer, stand-up comedian and TV and radio presenter. She has presented BBC Radio 4’s Front Row and Saturday Review and appears regularly on BBC One’s This Week. Her latest book, How to Own the Room: Women and the art of public speaking, is about women, confidence and public speaking. Her acclaimed self-help memoir, The Anna Karenina Fix: Life lessons from Russian literature, was published in the UK in 2017 and is due out in the US and in Russia in 2018.

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