Keely Winstone

Keely Winstone is a journalist, dramatist and documentary film-maker specialising in recent history.

Her writing has appeared in the Financial Times, the Guardian, and the Independent, and her plays include Mrs Assad and Me, about the British wife of the Syrian President (Royal Court, Orange Tree) and The Sex Lives of Others, an Edinburgh Fringe sell-out (‘sharp and well-observed’ - the Scotsman). Her historical films cover topics including the British Army’s Brigade of Gurkhas’ attempts to climb Everest, the D-Day landings (My D-Day, Amazon Prime), and Mountbatten (Mountbatten: Hero or Villain?, Channel 5).