Francis Wheen
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Francis James Baird Wheen (born 22 January 1957) is a British journalist, writer, and broadcaster.
Early life and education
Wheen was born into an army family and attended two independent schools: Copthorne Preparatory School in Crawley, West Sussex, and Harrow School in north west London.
Personal life
Between 1985 and 1993, Wheen was married to writer Joan Smith. Julia Jones (formerly Julia Thorogood) has been his partner for 27 years since he married Julia Jones in 2019; they have two sons.
Since being found guilty of sexually assaulting 23 boys between 1967 and 1983, Wheen waived his right to anonymity in order to talk about being a victim of the defunct Paedophile Information Exchange. Wheen described his encounter as less serious than that of other victims, and he was only aware of Napier's later activities.
Wheen was a close friend of writer Christopher Hitchens.
Career
After a time as a crammer, running away from Harrow at 16 "to join the alternative society." Wheen was a "dogsbody" at The Guardian and the New Statesman, and he attended Royal Holloway College, University of London, from Harrow. He was a contemporary of Mark Thatcher at Harrow, and he was briefly a reporter for the newspaper.
Wheen is the author of many books, including a biography of Karl Marx, which received the Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1999, and has been translated into twenty languages. He followed this with a notional "biography" of Das Kapital, which follows the design and publication of Marx's first volume as well as other unfinished volumes. For many years, Wheen had a column in The Guardian. He writes for Private Eye and is now the magazine's deputy editor. In 2003, Hoo-hahs and Passing Frenzies, his collected journalism, won him the Orwell Prize. He has also been a regular columnist for the London Evening Standard.
In a garden shed fire in April 2012, Wheen suffered the loss of his entire book collection, his "life's work," and an unfinished book.
In which he has often mentioned that he resembles former Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith, Wheen appears on television programmes regularly, mainly on BBC Radio 4, and he has appeared on The News Quiz, in which he has often referred to the fact that he looks likes former Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith. He has also appeared on Have I Got News for You many times.
For BBC Four's final period of Harold Wilson's premiership, Wheen created The Lavender List, focusing on his friendship with Marcia Williams, which first premiered in March 2006. Kenneth Cranham appeared as Wilson and Gina McKee as Williams in the show. In April 2007, the BBC paid £75,000 to Williams (then Baroness Falkender) in an out-of-court settlement for allegations made in the programme.