Robert Hutton

All of Robert Hutton’s career moves have been accidental. He started as a computer scientist but fell into journalism, and then stumbled across a true WW2 spy story that so excited him he wrote a book about it, Agent Jack. His new book, The Illusionist, is about Dudley Clarke, the eccentric genius who realised how the Allies could use stage magic to deceive the Nazis. Robert’s day job is as political satirist for The Critic magazine, and he hosts the podcast War Movie Theatre. He lives in south east London with his wife and sons.