Andrew Gilligan was born in London in 1968. He studied history at Cambridge University, and became a reporter for the Cambridge Evening News from 1994-1995. He then moved to London as a freelance reporter, before the Sunday Telegraph hired him for its foreign news desk. The Telegraph subsequently appointed him its defense correspondent. In 1999, Gilligan moved to the Today program at BBC Radio 4, where he was diplomatic and defense correspondent.

Gilligan has reported from some 40 countries, including Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan. In 2004, he left the BBC and moved to the London Evening Standard . In April 2008, he was named Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards.

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Listen to Gilligan on the role of the Today program:
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