Daniel Sixsmith Author

Martin Sixsmith is a bestselling author, television and radio presenter and journalist. He has worked in the past as a BBC correspondent in Moscow and as adviser to the Labour Party. In 2019 he published a novel called An Unquiet Heart based on the life of a Russian poet. He has also published an account of the Litvinenko murder, The Litvinenko File, and made a documentary film in 2008 exploring the legacy of the KGB in today’s Russia and the FSB. Having completed degrees in History and Russian Studies, Daniel Sixsmith worked as an archaeologist in Siberia and Kazakhstan before turning to historical research and writing. He contributed to the BBC Radio 4 series Russia: The Wild East, and co-authored The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind, which was short-listed for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Non-fiction in 2023.