About Knight Ayton Management

Knight Ayton Management has an established reputation for representing the country's leading news and current affairs presenters. Along with factual presenters in the areas of history, science, business, consumer issues and lifestyle, our clients include respected and distinguished broadcasters such as Moira Stuart, Michael Buerk, Jon Snow, Angela Rippon, together with Julia Somerville solving consumer problems in the huge hit series Rip Off Britain on BBC1, Jennie Bond, and Joan Bakewell. We also represent a new generation at the forefront of television presenters. Talents such as Louise Minchin (BBC News), Nina Hossain (ITV News), Cathy Newman, of Channel 4 News, Samira Ahmed presenter of BBC1 Sunday Morning Live and historians Dominic Sandbrook and Kate Williams.

Knight Ayton clients chair conferences, seminars and events and host award ceremonies. Many are accomplished after-dinner speakers.
We are able to offer recommendations for any occasion and budget and as we are personal agents to all our clients, we have expert knowledge of who would be best suited to a particular event.

We represent news and current affairs journalists as well as expert factual presenters across a broad spectrum of business, the arts, history and sciences.

Our business and financial journalists and broadcasters include ABI Financial Journalist of the Year Adam Shaw. Adam regularly presents BBC Panorama and the acclaimed BBC World business series, Horizons. Martin Lewis is the moneysaving expert who broadcasts extensively on BBC1, BBC Radio and ITV alongside his huge online following.

The depth and range of our pool of business talent is underlines by the presence of journalists such as Jamie Robertson of BBC World News' World Business Report, leading Bloomberg presenter Guy Johnson and CNBC anchors Geoff Cutmore and Louisa Bojesen.

Tim Harford is a senior columnist for the Financial Times and presenter of Radio 4’s More or Less where he reveals the economic ideas behind every day experiences.

Journalist Harry Wallop is a consumer expert presenting both Dispatches and Superscrimpers for Channel 4. Leading communications expert Judi James speaks expertly on body language in the national press, topical news and current affairs radio and television, and James King specialises in all things related to cinema and the film industry.

Knight Ayton represents broadcasters on all the major radio networks including Woman's Hour host Jane Garvey, regular BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3 presenter Samira Ahmed, Matthew Bannister (Radio 4’s
The Last Word and Outlook on the World Service) and Adrian Goldberg, who hosts a daily topical programme on BBC WM, Radio 4’s The Report and Five Live Investigates. James Max presents LBC weekend breakfast.

International news is one of our foremost areas of expertise. Many of our award-winning clients report on news stories for British broadcasters from across the world while others broadcast on globally available channels. Alex Thomson is a leading foreign correspondent for Channel 4 News, regularly reporting from the world’s trouble spots. Tim Sebastian founded the influential Doha Debates after a distinguished career at the BBC and journalist Tazeen Ahmad is an international NBC correspondent as well as presenter of many Dispatches investigative documentaries for Channel 4.

Of our historians Professor Niall Ferguson and Sir Roy Strong have both presented major programmes and series on BBC1, BBC2, BBC4, ITV and Channel 4. We also represent the cream of the new generation of historians who have had success presenting recent major series: Dominic Sandbrook, Kate Williams and Suzannah Lipscomb.