Phillip Adams was recently elected one of Australia’s 100 “Living National Treasures” in a poll conducted by The National Trust, For almost 40 years his columns in major newspapers and magazines have provoked discussion and outrage - his books including Adams versus God, The Penguin Book of Australian Jokes, Retreat from Tolerance and Talkback and A Billion Voices have sold over a million copies. He has written and presented many TV series, including “The Big Questions” with Professor Paul Davies.
His newspaper columns have appeared in The Australian, The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, Nation Review, The National Times – as well as the London Times and the New York Times. He is also regarded as “Australia’s best broadcaster” in the special issue of ‘The Reader’ created by the editors of both The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.
As a broadcaster, he has interviewed over 12,000 of the world’s most prominent politicians, philosophers, economists, scientists, theologians and scholars. His radio program, “Late Night Live” is broadcast twice a day over the 200-station network of Radio National - and around the world on Radio Australia and the Internet. |
