Jonathan is a Guardian columnist and former foreign correspondent. This is his first play.

Radio includes: Presenter of The Long View (BBC Radio 4).

Awards include: Somerset Maugham Award (Bring Home the Revolution); Columnist of the Year; Orwell Prize for Journalism; Commentator of the Year.

Jonathan is the author of 12 books, both fiction and non-fiction. His latest is The Escape Artist: the Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World.