Francine Stock is a broadcaster, critic and writer who has fronted a range of arts and current affairs programmes for BBC Television and Radio including Newsnight, Front Row and The Film Programme, which she’s presented since 2004.
Her published work includes two novels, short stories and film criticism, as well as a study of the cultural and political influence of cinema, In Glorious Technicolor: A Century of Film and How it Has Shaped Us. She was film critic of The Tablet 2008-16 and writes regularly for Prospect. She has been a judge of the Booker Prize and Guest Artistic Director of the From Page to Screen Festival. Chair of Tate Members from 2005-2010, she recently presented Tate’s first live gallery-to-cinema relay, Matisse Live. She’s on the British Council Arts Advisory Board, a director of the Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts, patron of Borderlines Film Festival and an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford.
