Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet presents Night Waves and Freethinking on BBC Radio 3, and is the summer presenter of The Film Programme on Radio Four. He is the author of Inventing the Victorians and Shepperton Babylon, which he adapted as a film for BBC Four. His TV programmes include Silent Britain, A Brief History of Fun, The Age of Excess, Truly, Madly, Cheaply and The Rules of Film Noir. .

Books by Matthew Sweet

The West End Front

Matthew Sweet

The Ritz, the Savoy, the Dorchester and Claridge's - during the Second World War they teemed with spies, con-artists, deposed royals and the exiled governments of Europe.

Meet the girl ...

Shepperton Babylon

Matthew Sweet

This is a wonderful secret history of British movies, one that includes the scandals, the suicides, the immolations and the contract killings - the product of thousands of conversations with veteran ...

Inventing the Victorians

Matthew Sweet

Suppose that everything we think we know about 'The Victorians' is wrong? That we have persistently misrepresented their culture, perhaps to make ourselves feel more satisfyingly liberal and sophisticated? What ...