Laura Flanders (born 5 December 1961) is an English broadcast journalist living in the United States who presents the weekly, long-form interview show The Laura Flanders Show. Flanders has described herself as a "lefty person".
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Early life and education
Flanders is the daughter of the British comic songwriter and broadcaster Michael Flanders and the American-born Claudia Cockburn, who was the daughter of the radical British journalist Claud Cockburn and American author Hope Hale Davis. Claud Cockburn's sons, Alexander, Andrew and Patrick Cockburn, all journalists, are Flanders's uncles, and author Lydia Davis is her aunt. Her sister, Stephanie Flanders, is a former BBC journalist. Actress Olivia Wilde is her cousin.
Flanders was raised in the Kensington district of London Her father died when she was 13 years old, and she was sent to live with her grandfather, Claud Cockburn.
Flanders emigrated to the United States in 1980, at age 19. She graduated from Barnard College in 1985 with a degree in history and women's studies.