Andrew Collins is a scriptwriter, journalist and broadcaster, in no particular order. Having learned his TV trade writing for Family Affairs and EastEnders, he has since written two sitcoms, Grass, with Simon Day (BBC3 and BBC2), and Not Going Out with Lee Mack (BBC1), which was recommissioned for a second series and won the RTS Breakthrough Award and the Rose D'Or for Best Sitcom.

He is also the Film Editor of Radio Times, occasional presenter of The Film Programme on Radio 4 and regular contributor to Front Row. He began his journalistic career at the NME, going on, via Select, to edit Q magazine and Empire. He currently writes for Word, The Times and Radio Times.

Starting his radio career on the original Radio Five, he was nominated for a Writers' Guild Award for his first series with Stuart Maconie, Fantastic Voyage. He won a Sony Gold for Collins & Maconie's Hit Parade on Radio 1 (where the pair also co-hosted coverage of the Brits and the Mercury Prize) and went on to co-present Collins & Maconie's Movie Club on ITV.

Andrew hosted Radio 4's weekly film programme Back Row for two and a half years, and broadcast constantly on BBC 6 Music between its launch in 2003 and 2007. He now presents topical comedy The Day The Music Died on Radio 2 and panel game Banter on Radio 4. He also co-wrote and performed Lloyd Cole Knew My Father with Stuart Maconie and David Quantick on stage in Edinburgh, London and Belfast, and for Radio 2.

In addition to a trilogy of humorous memoirs Where Did It All Go Right?, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now and That's Me In The Corner, Andrew is the author of Still Suitable For Miners, the official biography of Billy Bragg, and the official story of Friends Reunited.

A regular contributor to TV, including any number of Top 100, Greatest Ever and Britain's Favourite countdowns and documentaries such as The Story Of Light Entertainment, 40 Years Of Fuck and British Film Forever, he also presented BBC4's Creating Life On Mars. And his family were on Telly Addicts in 1990 and got through to the semi-finals.

An Honorary Fellow of the University of Northampton, he is married with one cat, lives in London and cares deeply about animals and birds.