Mariella Frostrup (born 12 November 1962)[citation needed] is a British-Norwegian journalist and presenter, known in British television and radio mainly for arts programmes.

Her Norwegian father, who died aged 44 when Frostrup was 15,[2] was a journalist (including Foreign Editor)[4] on The Irish Times, and her Scottish mother an artist.

Frostrup presented the Channel 4 music show Big World Cafe in 1989 alongside Eagle Eye Cherry and Jazzie B.

In September 2007 she chaired a question-and-answer session with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, at the Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth, Dorset.

[13] In 2008, Frostrup received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from Nottingham Trent University in recognition of her contribution and commitment to journalism and broadcasting.

As the presenter of The Book Show on Sky Arts 1, she interviewed an extensive list of guests on their recent works and their "favourite heroes and heroines from fiction".

In December 2012, she appeared on the BBC Two series World's Most Dangerous Roads, in which she and Angus Deayton were filmed driving along the east coast of Madagascar.

[14] In 2014, Frostrupp hosted an event at the British Film Institute celebrating 30 years of the TV programme Spitting Image.

In 2015 she signed an open letter which the ONE Campaign had been collecting signatures for; the letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women as they serve as the head of the G7 in Germany and the African Union in South Africa respectively, which will start to set the priorities in development funding before a main UN summit in September 2015 that will establish new development goals for the generation.

[22] In 2024 she was appointed Government Menopause Employment Ambassador[18] Frostrup was first married (1979–1984) to Richard Jobson, lead singer with the punk rock group Skids.