Clemency Burton-Hill

Clemency Burton-Hill is a British broadcaster, journalist and novelist. A specialist in the arts, but with diverse interests beyond, she presented BBC Radio 3 Breakfast and numerous other arts and culture programmes across television and radio including the BBC Proms, Young Musician of the Year, The Arts Hour, BBC New Generation Artists and Secret Knowledge.

Previously she was a reporter on the BBC’s Culture Show, contributing over thirty films about theatre, music, opera, dance, sculpture and literature; and a guest host of the BBC’s Review Show, regularly standing in for Kirsty Wark and Martha Kearney.

Since 2015 has also presented the coverage of Last Night of The Proms, as well as hosting the BBC Young Musician competition from 2010-2018.

As a journalist Clemency has contributed to all the UK broadsheets and is a regular profile and features writer for the FT Weekend magazine, the Economist’s bi-monthly magazine 1843 (previously Intelligent Life), the Telegraph and Observer.

She is the author of two novels, The Other Side of the Stars, 2009, and All The Things You Are, 2013, both published by Headline Review.

In 2017 her first non-fiction book Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day was published and in 2018 released in the US.

In 2021 her second non-fiction book Another Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day was released, and the audiobook recorded by Eddie Redmayne.

Since 2018 she has resided in the US with her husband and two sons.