Media
Taylor has had an extensive broadcasting career on BBC Radio 4. For many years he was a regular participant on Robert Robinson's fiercely competitive talking programme Stop the Week, later presented The Radio Programme and took on The Afternoon Shift, a re-branding of the ill-fated programme presented by Gerry Anderson. His media associates have included Tom Baker and Victor Lewis-Smith. He also writes (mainly humorous) pieces for The Times Higher Education Supplement.
Since 1998, Taylor has regularly presented the discussion programme Thinking Allowed on BBC Radio 4, a series mainly devoted to the social sciences. In addition, he is well known in academic circles for his long-running column in the Times Higher Education Supplement as well as for New Humanist magazine and being a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association. He is also the presenter of In Confidence, a series which comprises in-depth interviews with interesting public figures.
He was awarded an honorary DLitt by the University of Leicester in 2007.
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