Ariane Sherine

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Ariane Sherine with Richard Dawkins at the start of the Atheist Bus Campaign (2008)

Ariane Sherine (born July 3, 1980 in London ) is a British journalist , author and human rights activist . She achieved worldwide fame through her religion-critical Atheist Bus Campaign .

Life

Sherine writes regularly for The Guardian and has also worked for the Sunday Times and The Independent . She began journalism at the age of 21, reviewing music albums for New Musical Express magazine and soon took second place in a BBC Talent Awards for Series Writers (2002). She subsequently worked as a writer for comedic series on British television, including the BBC series My Family and Two Pints ​​of Lager and a Packet of Crisps , and she also worked for the Quiz show Countdown on Channel 4 , in which she 2003 performed himself. She also wrote episodes of various shows on CBBC and CITV , including The Story of Tracy Beaker , The New Worst Witch and Space Pirates , before turning back to journalism in early 2008.

engagement

Sherine started the Atheist Bus Campaign in response to an evangelical Christian bus advertisement that referred to a website that prophesied "eternity in the agony of hell" and "burning in a lake of fire" to unbelievers. She was brought up as a Christian; her father is close to Unitarianism , the mother's family to Zoroastrianism and the Parsees ; however, both parents do not practice. In 2009 she was nominated for the Secularist of the Year (The Irwin Prize) awarded by the National Secular Society . Sherine was responsible for the first broadcast of the non-religious counterpart of the BBC's Thought for the Day , which aired on BBC Radio 4 in January 2009.

Web links

Commons : Ariane Sherine  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markus Becker: Bus posters: Atheist campaigns are expanding . Spiegel Online , January 24, 2009.
  2. ↑ Profile Ariane Sherines on the website of the Guardian; Retrieved April 2, 2015.
  3. ↑ My week: Ariane Sherine: I'm a believer - in plastering buses with atheist slogans . ( April 2, 2015 memento on the Internet Archive ) The Sunday Times , January 11, 2009.
  4. ^ Ariane Sherine: The trouble with fairy-tales . ( Memento of March 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) The Independent , September 19, 2008.
  5. ^ Ariane Sherine: Hayes, Gemma: Night On My Side. Irish singer-songwriter's promising debut… . New Musical Express , September 12, 2005.
  6. ↑ Career Profile: Ariane Sherine, freelance TV writer . ( Memento of August 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Arts Hub , June 1, 2007.
  7. ↑ site's home page Ariane Sherines. Retrieved April 2, 2015.
  8. ↑ Two Pints ​​of Lager and a Packet of Crisps: Season 5, Episode 8: Fat . Internet Movie Database , accessed April 2, 2015.
  9. ↑ Philpot on Countdown . YouTube , uploaded September 21, 2006, accessed April 2, 2015.
  10. ↑ The Story of Tracy Beaker: Season 3, Episode 20: Sufia the Silent (April 16, 2004) . Internet Movie Database, accessed April 2, 2015.
  11. ↑ The New Worst Witch: Season 2, Episode 4: Next Week's News (7 Sep 2006) . Internet Movie Database, accessed April 2, 2015.
  12. ↑ Ariane Sherine . Internet Movie Database, accessed April 2, 2015.
  13. ↑ Ariane Sherine: All aboard the atheist bus campaign . The Guardian, Oct. 21, 2008
  14. ^ Atheist Bus Campaign. Ariane Sherine's website. Archived from the original on September 26, 2009 ; Retrieved April 2, 2015 .
  15. ^ Barack Obama nominated for Secularist of the Year . National Secular Society , Nov. 21, 2008.
  16. ^ John Plunkett: BBC Radio 4's first 'Thought for the Afternoon' . The Guardian, Jan. 9, 2009.
  17. ^ First Humanist “Thought for the Day” on Radio 4 . YouTube , uploaded January 10, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Sherine, Ariane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist, author and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH London