Andrew Hunter Murray
{{short description|English writer, podcaster and comedian}}
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1987}}
| education = Keble College, Oxford
| occupation = Author, podcaster, actor, comedian
| employer = Private Eye, Austentatious, QI
| television = No Such Thing as the News
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Andrew Hunter Murray (born 1987){{cite web |title=Index entry |url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=%2BSjL6bUDBSKjjmyzf1iqzQ&scan=1 |work=FreeBMD |publisher=ONS |access-date=4 July 2023}} is a British writer, podcaster and comedian.
Early life
Murray went to school at King's College School in Wimbledon.
Career
Murray is a writer and researcher for the BBC panel show QI, as a member of the team known as the "QI Elves". He co-hosts the spin-off podcast series No Such Thing as a Fish in which he and three other QI Elves – Anna Ptaszynski, James Harkin and Dan Schreiber – share their favourite facts from the week. Murray wrote and co-presented the podcast's spinoff television series No Such Thing as the News. He currently hosts "Drop Us a Line" as part of the No Such Thing As A Fish podcast, and also the BBC's satirical current affairs podcast The Naked Week.
Murray works for Ian Hislop as a writer for Private Eye magazine and hosts the magazine's podcast, Page 94.{{cite web |title=Andrew Hunter Murray |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2201027/andrew-hunter-murray |website=PenguinRandomhouse.com |access-date=30 April 2022 |language=en-US}}
Murray's debut novel, The Last Day, a dystopian thriller set in a future where the Earth has stopped spinning, was published in February 2020.{{cite news |last=Di Filippo |first=Paul |title=There's no shortage of novels about what happens when the Earth stops spinning. 'The Last Day' may set a new standard. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/theres-no-shortage-of-novels-about-what-happens-when-the-earth-stops-spinning-the-last-day-may-set-a-new-standard/2020/02/10/e60a847a-4c32-11ea-bf44-f5043eb3918a_story.html |access-date=5 March 2020 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=10 February 2020}} Film and TV rights for the novel have been sold to Stone Village Television.{{cite news |last=N'Duka |first=Amanda |title=Stone Village picks up rights to Andrew Hunter Murray's 'The Last Day' book |url=https://deadline.com/2019/06/stone-village-andrew-hunter-murray-the-last-day-book-rights-1202639641/ |access-date=5 March 2020 |work=Deadline |publisher=Penske Business Media |date=28 June 2019}} His second book, The Sanctuary, was published in May 2022.{{cite book |last=Murray |first=Andrew Hunter |title=The Sanctuary |url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1445222/the-sanctuary/9781529151572 |access-date=1 May 2022 }} His third novel A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering was published in 2024.
Murray is a member of the Jane Austen-themed improvisational comedy troupe Austentatious.{{cite web |last=Longman |first=Will |title=Andrew Hunter Murray interview - How to improvise a comedy based on Jane Austen's work |url=https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatre-news/interviews/andrew-hunter-murray-interview-how-to-improvise-a-comedy-based-on-jane |access-date=14 April 2020 |work=LondonTheatre.co.uk |date=19 October 2017}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.chortle.co.uk/comics/a/34188/andrew_hunter_murray Andrew Hunter Murray] on Chortle.
- [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4084103/ Andy Murray] on IMDb.
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Category:Alumni of Keble College, Oxford
Category:English male journalists
Category:English male novelists
Category:English male comedians
Category:Comedians from London
Category:People educated at King's College School, London
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