Television presenter and barrister, born in London, UK. He studied law at Cambridge, where he was president of Footlights, and was called to the bar in 1976. He wrote scripts for radio and television, began acting as a TV warm-up man, and joined BBC Radio 4 as chairman of the popular Whose Line Is It Anyway? (1988). The show later transferred to Channel 4 Television, where he was also given his own chat-show Clive Anderson Talks Back (1989–96). Later work includes Clive Anderson All Talk (1996–2000) and What If...? (2003). Unreliable Evidence, in which he cross-examines some of the UK's most eminent legal figures, began on Radio 4 in 1998.