Marc Fennell is a Walkley-winning journalist, an AACTA-nominated filmmaker and one of Australia’s most recognisable documentary storytellers.

He is the creator and host of the hit television series and podcast Stuff the British Stole, which screens on ABC Australia, BBC Select and CBC Canada, and has fronted more than 600 episodes of SBS’s iconic nightly quiz show Mastermind. Marc also hosts ABC’s hit history-mystery podcast No One Saw It Coming.

A three-time Rose d’Or nominee, Marc has become one of Australia’s most awarded factual presenters. He is an eight-time New York Festivals medallist and the recipient of the James Beard Foundation Food Journalism Award, a Canadian Screen Award, an AWGIE, an Asian Academy Creative Award, the June Andrews Arts Journalism Award, three AIDC Awards, an Association for International Broadcasters Award and multiple Webby Honours. The Times (UK) once dubbed him “the cheerful Aussie version of Louis Theroux.”

In 2026, Marc will premiere the three-part ABC series The State of Man, the SBS true-crime investigation Australia’s Greatest Conman?, and Phony - a major BBC Studios/Audible original podcast.

Documentaries

Marc’s documentary work includes the Logie and AACTA-nominated The School That Tried to End Racism, The Kingdom, The Mission, the Rose d’Or-shortlisted art-heist series Framed, Red Flag, the Walkley-nominated Came From Nowhere, as well as The Secret DNA of Us and Tell Me What You Really Think (both 2025).

Podcasts & Audio

Audible is the exclusive home of Marc’s original podcast journalism, including It Burns (2019), Nut Jobs (2020) — winner of two Australian Podcast Awards and an AIDC Award — House of Skulls (2023), This Is Not a Game (2024) and his latest investigation, Corked (2025).

A familiar voice on ABC Radio, Marc presented Download This Show from 2012–2024 and was triple j’s long-running “Movie Guy”.

Interviewer

Marc anchored SBS’s national current affairs program The Feed for nine years, reporting everywhere from the 2019 Hong Kong protests to food-crime stings in California to survivors of ISIS torture. His interviews with figures such as Al Gore, Tom Cruise, Julian Assange and Jennifer Lawrence have amassed more than 30 million online views.

He has written two books and regularly appears across ABC, SBS and Network Ten programs, as well as ABC Local Radio nationwide.

Backstory…

Marc’s path into journalism was anything but conventional. He first appeared on the national radar out of high school, winning the AFI Outstanding Young Film Critics Award. His broadcasting career began soon after at Sydney’s FBi 94.5, where he became the station’s resident film critic. At just 19, Marc was recruited to SBS’s reboot of The Movie Show (2004), before jumping to the ABC’s national youth network triple j to deliver film coverage across radio, television and print.

For 11 years, Marc was Australia’s most listened-to film critic - better known to more than 3.1 million triple j listeners as “That Movie Guy”. During that time, he also hosted the world’s largest short film festival, Tropfest, from 2014 to 2016.

Marc went on to be a presenter and producer on all three seasons of ABC TV’s ground-breaking journalism experiment Hungry Beast (2009–2011), working under Executive Producer Andrew Denton.

Away from the camera, Marc has worn many creative hats: art director, web developer, magazine and newspaper writer… and, very briefly, a hand model. (Yes, really. Ask him about it sometime.)

Contact Marc

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