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Paul Lewis (born 1948) is a British freelance financial journalist and broadcaster on

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television and radio, including as presenter of ''

Money Box ''Money Box'' is a weekly personal finance radio programme on BBC Radio 4, produced by BBC News, currently presented by Paul Lewis. The programme is broadcast live each Saturday in the half-hour slot just after midday. It is repeated on Sunday ev ...

'' on

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Paul Lewis

Education

Lewis was educated at

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, a state grammar school in the town of

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, followed by the

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, from which he graduated in Psychology in the 1970s.

Life and career

Lewis is best known as the presenter of ''

'' and ''Money Box Live'' on BBC Radio 4, ''Your Money'' on BBC World Service and previously worked on the BBC Radio 5 ''

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'' radio show. He also regularly appears on other BBC Television programmes such as '' BBC Breakfast'', ''

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'' and radio programmes such as ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' or news radio programmes like ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' PM''. Lewis also writes the monthly ''Money Works'' feature in

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and contributes to articles on the

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, the '' Radio Times'',
Money Marketing
' and other newspaper publications.www.paullewis.co.uk
Paul Lewis' own website Lewis appears on Rip Off Britain as an expert on financial matters such as pensions. His expertise is also regularly called upon on BBC Breakfast Outside financial journalism, he is an authority on the Victorian writer

Wilkie Collins William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known especially for '' The Woman in White'' (1859), a mystery novel and early "sensation novel", and for '' The Moonstone'' (1868), which has b ...

and one of the editors of the first complete edition of his letters, published in 2005.

Awards

Lewis has won numerous awards for his financial and broadcast journalism, receiving his first award in 1986. He was given a lifetime achievement award by the

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in 2006, and named ''Best Broadcast Journalist'' by the

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in 2011. He has won the ''Headline Money Awards Broadcast Journalist of the year'' five times; most recently in 2013. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the

University of Essex The University of Essex is a public research university in Essex, England. Established by royal charter in 1965, Essex is one of the original plate glass universities. Essex's shield consists of the ancient arms attributed to the Kingdom of Es ...

in July 2013.

Publications

*Paul Lewis, "Pay Less Tax", Age Concern Books, London 2009, *Paul Lewis, "Making Your Money Work for Your Future", Help the Aged, London 2008, *Paul Lewis, "Beat the Banks", Age Concern Books, London 2008, *Paul Lewis, "Live Long and Prosper", A&C Black, London 2006, *Paul Lewis, "Money Magic", BBC Books, London 2005, *William Baker, Andrew Gasson, Graham Law, Paul Lewis, "The Public Face of Wilkie Collins" - The Collected Letters, Pickering & Chatto, London 2005.

Personal life

Born in Warrington, Lewis is a self-confessed atheist, vegetarian and hippy. He became a professional journalist after winning an amateur journalism prize in 1986; his journalism enables him to live his alternative ecologically conscious lifestyle.Headline Money
Roger Anderson interview 17 February 2007

References

External links

''Money Box''
(BBC Radio 4) {{DEFAULTSORT:Lewis, Paul 1948 births Living people Alumni of the University of Stirling BBC newsreaders and journalists British business writers British business and financial journalists English radio personalities People educated at Maidstone Grammar School