Television
Haynes is a regular panellist on BBC2's Newsnight Review and was the most-booked guest on More4's The Last Word. She appeared as a panellist on BBC 4's The Book Quiz, and on their Poetry Special alongside Andrew Motion and George Szirtes. She also appeared on Backlash, a BBC2 documentary on voluntary childlessness, wrote and performed in the STV/Assembly Television Best of the Fest in August 2005. Haynes has been a panellist on BBC Four’s quiz show Mindgames, featured on Must Try Harder on BBC Two in 2006 and was the art and literature expert on the BBC Two quiz show Knowitalls.
In August 2007, she appeared on BBC Four's The Book Quiz hosted by David Baddiel. On the programme she admitted researching a book on Wikipedia in order to bluff having read it.
In April 2008 Haynes was a member of stand-up comedians team on University Challenge: The Professionals. Her team lost to the Ministry of Justice by 100 points to 215. In November 2009 she appeared on BBC One's Question Time.
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