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Adam Shaw is a multi-award-winning journalist and one of the most recognisable faces of business journalism on television.

He is known for his style of bringing a critical but engaging and imaginative approach to business journalism.

He regularly presents ITV’s Tonight programme – Britain’s most watched current affairs series.

Adam’s awards include:
Broadcaster of the Year – Plain English Campaign
Best Broadcast Journalist of the Year – Association of Investment Companies
Financial Broadcaster of the Year – Association of British Insurers
Personality of the Year – Proshare
Best Business Coverage – Institute of Financial Accountants

He has also presented and reported on:

• Magic Consultants (Radio 4) Adam wrote and presented a 5-part series taking a look behind the curtain of the consultancy industry.
• Times Radio regular contributor on personal finance
• Panorama (BBC 1) Adam has presented many editions, investigating some of the biggest business and economics issues facing the UK
• The Today Programme – Business Presenter (Radio 4) Adam interviewed most of the FTSE CEOs and some of the world’s most powerful business leaders.
• Money Box Live (Radio 4) Adam was a regular presenter of the flagship Radio 4 money programme.
• Steph’s Packed Lunch (Channel 4) Adam was a popular contributor on personal finance.
• Working Lunch (BBC 2) Adam was one of the key faces of the hit daily finance programme.
• The Internet of Things (CNBC) An investigation into how digital innovation is reshaping industries around the world.
• Horizons (BBC World News TV) Adam presented several series of popular show on the impact of new technologies, interviewing some of the world’s most powerful and richest people – from Bill Ford to Bill Gates.
• In Business (Radio 4) Adam has presented several editions, covering topics such as forecasting.
• Wake Up To Money (Radio 5)
• Business Breakfast (BBC 1)
• Woodland Walks (Podcast) Adam interviews celebrities whilst they discover some breathtaking woods around the UK.

Adam has written for a number of newspapers including The Independent, Mail on Sunday and The Metro

Adam has written and co-authored a number of books:
• Political Rhubarb
• Money and How to Make More of It
• Managing Credit
• Investing Basics

Jonathan has been a broadcast journalist for 25 years and is currently one of the main presenters for Sky News.

Jonathan began his career as a BBC trainee, starting at BBC Radio Cornwall and then moving into regional television. He was Chief Correspondent for Channel 5 news before becoming a Sky News foreign correspondent, based in Sydney.

As a reporter he has had a ringside seat at some of the biggest stories of recent years.

Jonathan was in Chicago when Obama won his first election, covered the missing miners in Chile, conflicts in the Middle East, protests in Hong Kong and Bangkok, tsunamis in Japan and Indonesia, bushfires in Australia, floods in Pakistan and Europe, terror attacks and royal tours.

For a number of months he was based in LA covering the Michael Jackson trial and also spent weeks following the search for missing plane MH370. He was in Rome when Italy became the first country outside China to go into Covid lockdown.

More recently he anchored hours of live coverage for the G7 summit, COP26, the fall of Kabul, partygate, the Ukraine war, platinum jubilee, death of Prince Philip, and council and by-election results.

Jonathan is adept at making people feel at ease when being interviewed with his natural warmth, authority and empathy.

Away from the tv cameras he is an experienced conference facilitator, awards host, master of ceremonies and speaker.

When not working he is a keen travel writer, plane enthusiast and author – his first novel is out any decade now.

Kofi Smiles is an award winning Journalist and Presenter of BBC Radio Humberside’s Breakfast show.

With a self-proclaimed gift of storytelling, Kofi’s narrative is always interesting, informative and delivered with passion. This passion is infectious and he brings out the best in everyone and everything he touches ‘or your money back’, he says.
Kofi was chosen over 200 people to be the BBC’s Face Of Hull, presenter, reporter and ‘go to’ for the UK City of Culture 2017. He was omnipresent, appearing on BBC Radio 4, BBC 1, BBC News Channel and more. Together with his team he won an O2 Media Awards Digital Journalism Award for the coverage.

Since then he has set up the young people’s platform called ‘BBC No Filter’, a place to give amplify the voices of the voices. Working as host of the radio show of the same name and also a videographer and video editor.

Now you can find him waking up East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire as the host of the BBC Radio Humberside Breakfast show all the while managing time to occasionally host Radio 4’s The Listening Project and Pick of the Week.

Kofi spent his time at the University of Northumbria and period after graduation cultivating and sharpening his skills making videos on YouTube with his friends and team over at CTK Media. They produced niche content focussing on sketches, political satire and the popular vegan pop culture cooking channel, Kofi’s Kitchen. It was a no brainer, allowing him to fuse his love of veganism, cooking, comic books, movies and pop culture in entertaining, informative and engaging videos.

Kofi is a flexible and resilient individual who is able to handle difficult and uncomfortable conversations whilst allowing for moments of levity and humour if conversations need be. He doesn’t shy away from taking on something new and seeing what lessons he can learn, not only from the experience but also to see what he can learn about himself when in unfamiliar water, something he wants to take the audience along with him too.

Storytelling is his life, be it music, film, tv, comics, books, anime, manga Kofi is there bright, shining, full of life and knowledge but more importantly a good time.
Just look at these testimonies from impartial people:
“The best of my 4 children I couldn’t possibly find anything wrong with him! He is my baby!” – Mum
“If you cut Kofi he bleeds fun! It’s just smiles and vibes to the core!” – A Friend who owes him money
“He inspires me to be the best I can be!” Superman
“I think Kofi is who my Uncle Ben was talking about when he spoke about power and responsibility….” – Spider-Man
“Half my songs are about him.” – Kanye West
“A true Outlier!” – Malcom Gladwell
“Is he single? Asking for me and my friends?” -Megan Thee Stallion
“Looking forward to playing him in the bio-pic about his amazing life and career”. Viola Davis
“I remember when Kofi used to say he looks like me, now I’m telling people I look like him.”- Idris Elba

Broadcaster and Journalist Jon Snow presented Britain’s award-winning Channel 4 News for more than 30 years.

Jon joined ITN in 1976 and became Washington Correspondent in 1984. He then travelled the world to cover the news – from the fall of the Berlin Wall and the release of Nelson Mandela, to Barack Obama’s inauguration and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

His many awards include a BAFTA fellowship, the Richard Dimbleby BAFTA award for Best Factual Contribution to Television (2005), and Royal Television Society awards for Journalist of the Year (2005 & 2006) and Presenter of the Year (2009 & 2010 and 2012). He also collected the BAFTA award for Channel 4 News’ 2011 coverage of the Japanese Tsunami.

Jon delivered the prestigious MacTaggart Lecture at Edinburgh’s International Television Festival in 2017.

He has also presented a wide range of discussion programmes and a number of high-profile documentaries for Channel 4. He presented coverage of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Paralympics and hosted a nightly programme, Jon Snow’s Paralympic Show.

Jon presented Snow Explains, a docuseries examining the news headlines in greater depth. He presented a number of Dispatches programmes including Can You Trust Your Bank and the two-part Landlords from Hell. Other documentaries include Drugs Live, Genius of British Art – the Art of War, Jon Snow’s Tsunami, War on Terror Trial, Bloody Sunday Debate, Snow in Japan, How to Live to 100, What if Putin Goes Nuclear? and Jon Snow: A Witness to History. He also chaired the quiz show, Very Hard Questions, for More4.

Jon has appeared on a number of TV and radio shows, including Good Morning Britain, Lorraine, Have I Got News for You, and notably an annual appearance on The Big Fat Quiz of the Year.

Jon created and presented the podcast Snowcast, interviewing key figures in art, media, politics and pop culture including Joan Bakewell, Professor Hannah Fry and Sir Chris Bryant.

Jon’s second book, The State of Us, was published in March 2023. Part memoir, part social exploration, it has been described as ‘A fascinating call to arms full of insight’ (Independent) which ‘represents a break in a half-century of silence; and it is trenchant in surprising ways’ (Guardian).

James Waterhouse is the Ukraine Correspondent for BBC News, bringing audiences a range of stories from across the country on radio, TV and online. He was appointed to the role in June 2022, after his acclaimed reporting as Kyiv Correspondent during the outbreak of the war, and is a regular presenter on the BBC’s Ukrainecast podcast.

His calm, clear and compelling reporting style connected with millions as he found himself on the frontline when Russia launched its full-scale invasion in early 2022.

James’ journalism career has seen him cover poaching in Malawi, the refugee crisis on the Syrian border, NATO exercises in the Arctic Circle as well as the Grenfell Tower disaster and three general elections.

He cut his teeth as a reporter for BBC Essex radio. He then went on to work as a BBC correspondent in UK domestic news, as a senior reporter for BBC London News and as a reporter on Radio 1 Newsbeat.

James also has commercial experience having worked as a reporter and news reader with both LBC and TalkRadio.

He’s built his reputation on serving non-traditional audiences by explaining often complicated stories in a simple way.

However, in the words of the Telegraph, his journey to one of the most prominent jobs in journalism is an “amazing” one.

Before his decade at the BBC, James was a professional rugby union player for the Rotherham Titans, Plymouth Albion and Esher from 2006 to 2011.

As his love for the sport started to wain at the age of 25, some well-timed advice from his Esher club chairman and broadcaster John Inverdale led to James taking up a post-graduate diploma in broadcast journalism.

From the moment he started the course at the London College of Communication, James knew he wanted to be a journalist.

Outside of the profession James regularly chairs or participates in panel discussions and corporate Q&As.

As one of the longest-serving Royal correspondents on British TV, Simon Vigar has interviewed and/or met most members of the Royal Family. He was one of the privileged few journalists to receive an invitation to the State funeral of Elizabeth II.

Simon has covered Royal tours from South Africa to the Solomon Islands, Barbados to Bhutan and had a front row seat at all the major Royal events in recent years. He has covered births, marriages, deaths and three jubilees and interviewed Princes Philip and Harry, Princess Anne and the then Duchess of Cornwall. Simon’s association with 5 News goes back to its launch in 1997 and he is the only remaining reporter from the original line-up. He has covered other major events including the Paris attacks, the 7/7 bombings, the Grenfell tragedy and London 2012.

Simon has also worked for some of the biggest players in radio including Capital, Heart and LBC and been a voiceover artist for Discovery, Sky Sports and Formula 1. He is passionate about improving diversity within journalism and, for many years, has been involved with the John Schofield Trust. Away from work, Simon is an authority on flags and is a question-setter for the top charity event in broadcast news, the fiendish Ultimate News Quiz.

Alex Thomson is a familiar figure in British TV news as both an award-winning correspondent and anchor on ITN’s Channel 4 News. He combines reporting on major national and international stories and war coverage with his studio presenting role on Channel 4’s in-depth 7pm nightly news.

He is a regular contributor in national press and magazines writing articles on media issues as well as news items arising out of his international roving reporter’s brief.

Alex hsa also fronted full-length current affairs documentaries for Channel 4’s Dispatches strand.

He was the Channel Four News correspondent in the Gulf states throughout the 1991 war, after which he wrote the Smokescreen an acclaimed account of media-military relations, published by Spellmount.

He has also written a travel book about India, published by Harper Collins in 1985, an account of his bicycle journey from the north to the south of the country.

Alex Thomson is an Honorary Fellow of Falmouth College of Journalism; an external examiner at Cardiff Journalism School and Advisory Committee Member of the Rory Peck Trust.

Before joining Channel 4 News, Alex Thomson worked for BBC Television and Radio. For two years he was reporter for the BBC Northern Ireland documentary programme Spotlight.

Alex also chairs conferences and seminars and is a highly skilled conference facilitator and after dinner speaker. He has a wealth of experience hosting events and award ceremonies, both at home and abroad.

JOURNALISM AWARDS

BAFTA

Alex’s reports featured heavily in Channel 4 News’ BAFTA award for best news coverage for the Japan Tsunami, 2011.

His exclusive interview with the Bosnian Serb Commander Ratko Mladic was part of Channel 4 News’ BAFTA Award winning coverage for 1996.

ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY AWARDS

He won the prestigious Television Journalist of the Year award for 2012.

Another Dispatches he presented won Best Campaign and Season at the Royal Television Society’s Education Awards in 2008.

His investigation into the events surrounding Bloody Sunday won Best Home News Award at the Royal Television Society awards 1998. During 1990 he covered the dramatic events in Czechoslovakia and was one of the first foreign television correspondents into Romania where his reports won the Royal Television Society Award for Best International News coverage in 1990.

It was also part of the Channel 4 News submission which won the Amnesty International Press Award for news coverage and the overall programme award.

NEW YORK FILM & TV AWARDS

His coverage of Afghanistan was part of 2007’s Gold Medal Winning entry at the New York Film and TV Awards and his coverage of Serb massacres in Kosovo won a Bronze Medal at the 2000 awards.

His account of Hutu refugees returning to Rwanda after exile won a medal at the 1996 New York Film and Television Awards. It was also runner up in the One World Broadcasting Trust Awards of 1996.

His coverage of the Rwandan refugee crisis in Zaire won the 1995 International Critics Award at the Monte Carlo Film Festival and a prize at the wards. His report on the BNP by-election victory in Millwall won the 1994 Royal Television Society award for Best Home News story.

He won an award from the One World Broadcasting Trust for his report on Eritrea.

Liam Halligan is an economist, author, and broadcaster – and also has extensive business experience. Since 2003, he has written his multiple award-winning weekly “Economics Agenda” column in The Sunday Telegraph – which enjoys a large domestic and international following and has been recognised with a British Press Award, the highest prize in UK print journalism. He also created and co-presents the Telegraph’s hugely-popular weekly “Planet Normal” podcast – which regularly appears in the Apple news podcast top-10 global rankings.

Liam’s latest book – Home Truths: The UK’s Chronic Housing Shortage – How it Happened, Why it Matters and How to Solve it – was published in 2019 to rave reviews. The Times described the book as “vivid and lucid, a brilliantly written gem” while the Guardian called it “splendid”. The housing charity Shelter said Home Truths was “full of eloquence and moral clarity – a call to arms for politicians and campaigners of all parties and none”. Andrew Neil said the book was “a must-read across Westminster, Whitehall and beyond” describing Liam as “a one-off – a card-carrying economist, with high-level political access, who can explain complex issues in readable, vivid prose”.
Along with his roles at The Telegraph and GB News, Liam also writes regularly for The Spectator and The Sun and has appeared countless times on flagship BBC shows – including Question Time, Any Questions and Today, as well as on Sky News, CNBC, Bloomberg TV and many others.

He previously featured three times a week on CNN-Talk – analysing global political and economic news live, for a worldwide television audience.

Earlier in his career, Liam was based in Moscow – where he wrote an influential column in The Moscow Times, while covering Russia and the Former Soviet Union for The Economist and The Economist Intelligence Unit. He was then appointed as Political Correspondent for The Financial Times (based in Parliament) and then spent almost a decade leading the Economics and Business coverage for Channel 4 News.

He has since continued to research, write and present hard-hitting Dispatches documentaries for Channel 4 – and has won the Wincott Business Broadcast Award a record four times, as well being twice recognised as the World Leadership Forum Business Broadcaster of the Year.
Liam is a very experienced public speaker – who combines widely recognised expertise with personality and humour. He has given keynote addresses to numerous high-level audiences, both in person, after-dinner and on-line, headlining events run by Thomson Reuters, Euromoney, the CFA Institute, Deutsche Bank, Adam Smith Conferences, and the St Petersburg International Economic Forum.

He has also hosted an array of conferences, often on complex economic and financial issues, for clients ranging from the Association of British Insurers, The Financial Conduct Authority, Eversheds, Caterforce Suppliers, Microsoft, the Telegraph Festival of Business and the OECD’s flagship 50th Anniversary Forum.

As a leading economics journalist and recognised policy expert, Liam has been called to testify in front of numerous committees of both the House of Common and the House of Lords – on subjects ranging from housing to the UK’s “digital divide”.

But his range of experience and expertise, as both a speaker and convener, extends beyond economic and business themes, to include political, diplomatic, and geo-strategic issues too, relating to the UK, Europe and beyond. He has a particularly deep knowledge of the post-Communist world, emerging markets more broadly and global energy markets.
Liam holds a first-class BSc. (Econ) degree from the University of Warwick and an MPhil (Econ) from St Antony’s College, Oxford University. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Social Market Foundation, a Westminster-based think-tank, and also The Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy, an ESRC-funded research body based in the University of Warwick’s Economics Department.

A citizen of both the UK and the Republic of Ireland, he is listed in Who’s Who, De Bretts and the Dictionary of International Biography.

“Liam Halligan is the best economics journalist of his generation – his writing is always vivid and lucid”.
Lord Nigel Lawson, former Chancellor

“What Liam Halligan doesn’t know about the UK economy or Brexit isn’t worth knowing“.
Iain Dale, LBC presenter

“Halligan is an economist I hugely respect and whose work I follow closely”.
Lord David Owen, Former SDP Leader and Independent Peer

Nick Owen has worked in regional and national television since the late seventies. He came to national prominence in 1983 as one of the first faces to appear on breakfast television in Britain.

He featured on ITV’s breakfast station TV-am on day one as a sports presenter before becoming the main anchorman within eight weeks. He was soon joined by Anne Diamond in a partnership that personified the early years of breakfast television in this country. Nick then moved from the dawn patrol to become ITV Sport’s main presenter for six years. During this time, he anchored the Olympic Games of 1988 and the football World Cup in 1990, as well as hosting hundreds of other programmes from here and abroad.

He and Anne Diamond were re-united in the nineties with their daytime show, Good Morning with Anne and Nick, on BBC 1. This ran for 600 programmes, before Nick moved to his current post as presenter of the regional news programme, BBC Midlands Today.

In 2004, Nick published his autobiography, In the Time of Nick and in 2006, he was awarded the Baird Medal by the Royal Television Society. He was recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Worcester.

Nick also chairs conferences and seminars and is a highly skilled conference facilitator and after dinner speaker. He has a wealth of experience hosting events and award ceremonies, both at home and abroad and was awarded Speaker of the Year 2010 by the Association of Speakers Club.

Broadcaster, journalist, author, conservationist – Stanley Johnnson’s achievements are numerous, traveling the world in pursuit of animal welfare and spearheading environmental projects. Stanley has had many books published and regularly writes for newspapers and magazines on a range of topics – from politics and travel to society at large. He appears frequently on television and radio, guesting on news, current affairs and feature programmes. Stanley was part of the primetime BBC Two documentary A Week in the Wild, where three celebrities took on the iconic challenge of exploring Mexico’s famous Copper Canyon. He also featured in Channel 4’s recent series The Baby Boomer’s Guide to Growing Old.

Stanley was born in Cornwall in August 1940, and was educated at Ravenswood School, near Tiverton, Devon, Sherborne School, Dorset, and studied at Exeter College, Oxford, where he won a Stapeldon Scholarship in Classics. Since 1951 his family has farmed on Exmoor, on the Devon-Somerset border, and Stanley still manages the farm there today. He also has a home in London.

On leaving Oxford in 1963, Stanley was awarded a Harkness Fellowship to the United States in 1963. He is a former Conservative member of the European Parliament (MEP) where he served (1979-1984) as Vice Chairman of the Parliament’s Committee on Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection. He has also worked in the European Commission (1973-1979) as Head of the Prevention of Pollution division and (1984-1994) as Senior Adviser to DG Environment and as Director of Energy Policy. Before joining the Commission, Stanley served on the staff of the World Bank and the International Planned Parenthood Federation.

Stanley has been an adviser to Price Waterhouse Coopers, a director of ERM, an environmental consultancy, a trustee of the Earthwatch Institute and Plantlife International and an environmental adviser to Jupiter Asset Management. He is currently Honorary President of the Gorilla Organisation (www.gorillas.org) and an Ambassador for the United Nations Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) (http://www.cms.int/)

He has had eleven books published dealing with environmental issues, including the Politics of the Environment, the Earth Summit and the Environmental Policy of the European Communities. He has also had nine novels published, including The Commissioner which was made into a film starring John Hurt. Stanley’s book, Where The Wild Things Were, is a collection of travel and environmental journalism.

The first volume of his memoir “Stanley I Presume” was published to critical acclaim (‘hilarious and rip-roaring’) in 2009.  The second volume: “Stanley I Resume: further recollections of an exuberant life” was published in 2014.

Stanley’s most recent publication, Kompromat, a satirical thriller was published in 2017 and is being developed for television.

In 1984 he was awarded the Greenpeace Prize for Outstanding Services to the Environment and in the same year the RSPCA Richard Martin award for services to animal welfare. In 2014, he received the WWF Silver Medal, and in 2015 he also received the RSPB Medal and WWF-International’s Leader of the Living Planet Award for his work on the EU Habitats Directive and Natura 2000, the Europe-wide network of protected areas. In 1962 he won the Newdigate Prize for Poetry.

Stanley has four children by his first marriage to the painter Charlotte Johnson-Wahl: Boris, Rachel, Leo and Joseph. He also has two children, Julia and Maximilian, by his second marriage to Jennifer.

Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe was the most senior police officer in the UK. He led the Metropolitan Police, an organisation of nearly 50,000 people with a budget of £3.2 billion. He was directly accountable to the Home Secretary, supervised by parliamentary committees and had national responsibilities, which included leading counter terrorism policing throughout the UK and protecting the Royal Family and senior members of the government both at home and abroad.

He has used his expertise to report for Dispatches on Channel 4. In 2018, he presented Dispatches – Cannabis: Time to End the Ban? In the programme, Bernard travelled to Colorado, to see if the UK police should follow in Colorado’s footsteps and legalise cannabis. This programme lead to Bernard’s calling for the UK government to establish an expert commission to examine the evidence provided by the programme.
In 2019, he presented Dispatches – Britain’s Knife Crime Crisis: Young, Armed and Dangerous, which investigated Britain’s knife crime crisis. In the programme, Bernard came face to face with a masked gang member carrying a blade.

Bernard’s career has been characterised by high achievement, having successfully delivered numerous strategic objectives and efficiency improvements while holding weighty appointments with substantial responsibilities. He has a wealth of experience in creating cultural change, developing and implementing new strategies to transform corporate identities. He has built his success on the simple strategy of Total Policing. This involves a war on crime and care for victims.

As Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and Chief Constable of Merseyside he delivered significant reductions in crime during his 5 years tenure. In London 20% and Merseyside 36%. In both regions he reduced the murder rates, in London by 25%. In London despite a loss of £600 million of budget he uniquely maintained police officer numbers while the rest of England and Wales lost 20,000 police.

When he took command of the Metropolian Police, the capital city of 8.4 million people was in a state of shock caused by the large scale riots of 2011. The organisation itself was in crisis having lost half the Management Board. Despite these challenges and with a limited timescale of only a few months he planned and delivered a safe city, a safe Olympics and saved £600 million.

During the next five years, the national threat level was set at ‘severe’ and attacks occurred throughout Europe, however only one terrorist attack got through during his command. He has continued to build the UK police and Security Service partnership, which is recognised as the best in the world with its profound links to neighbourhood based community policing.

Bernard has extensive experience of policing major public events. These include the successful 2012 Olympics Games, 2008 Liverpool European City of Culture, State Visits, The State Opening of Parliament, many major sporting events and multiple large scale public political protests on the streets of London.

Bernard was made a life peer in October 2017 and has since taken up his role as a crossbencher in the House of Lords.

Bernard enjoys horse riding and all equestrian activities. He has a passion for football, playing five a side and supporting Sheffield Wednesday. In addition he has a love of opera.

Daniel Henry is a Sky News Correspondent.

He was previously with ITV London, where his empathetic and sensitive approach to storytelling marked him out as one to watch.

He spent 8 years at the BBC reporting for Newsnight, BBC Africa, and BBC Three.

His stories have taken him around the world – from Barbados to Burnley!

Daniel pitched, originated, led and developed the investigation into former Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood over many months – before sharing his findings with The Guardian and other BBC colleagues to create the BBC Three film, ‘Abuse Of Power’.

It won a British Journalism Award in December 2022, with judges describing it as “brave, painstaking work”.

Daniel has presented a number of documentaries in recent years – including ‘Computer Says No’, ‘Barbados – Road To A Republic’, and ‘Britain After George Floyd’.
His debut film, ‘African Diaspora Diaries’, was nominated at MIPCOM in Cannes for its coverage of race and ethnicity.

He is a trustee of the Ethical Journalism Network – and part of the advisory board for the networking group We Are Black Journos.
He has co authored reporting guidelines on the coverage of race and mental health for the Media Trust.

Daniel has drawn on those guidelines to deliver a series of lectures to journalism students.

He draws on his personal growth and goals to write for an online platform called called Fundamental.

He has hosted events at Snapchat, the BBC and Coca Cola’s European headquarters – exploring issues raised by his storytelling through panel discussions and speaking engagements.

He intends to continue making long form films while reporting on the capital for ITV News.

Geoff Cutmore is an internationally recognised face of Business and Finance news. He Anchored CNBC’s flagship daily Squawkbox programme in Asia and Europe for nearly 30 years.

He has a calm, but persistent interviewing style which once caused Russia’s President Putin to describe him as a ’scary man’ on the key panel at the St Petersburg International Forum. He has moderated at this event for a number of years and while working in Russia conducted a world first & exclusive conversation with oligarch and English football club owner, Alisha Usmanov.

Geoff has moderated the prestigious Global Economic Outlook panel, and others, whilst anchoring at the WEF forum in Davos for more than 20 years. He also regularly chaired panels at other WEF events in China and Turkey.

He last moderated 2 WEF panels in May ’23 at the Geneva Jobs Summit. The two panels were: 1. Global Economic Outlook: What Next for Globalisation? 2. Bounce Back Better: Boosting Risk Foresight and Resilience.

He has an abiding interest in Asia after working in Hong Kong for nearly a decade. Annually attending the Boao Forum in Hainan Island and the China Development Forum in Beijing. As well as hosting CNBC’s East Tech West Forum in Guangzhou.

He also fronted CNBC’s Questions for the Future series for many years – a show sponsored by Shell and with a live audience debate on the energy transition hosted from destinations all around the world. And hosted and presented at the COP15 in Denmark.

Geoff regularly anchored and moderated at the annual IMF/World Bank Autumn meeting in Washington DC. He hosted fireside interviews with the Head of the IMF and World Bank.

He has interviewed every President of the European Central Bank, the last 3 Governors of the Bank of England, US Treasury Secretaries, Russian Prime Ministers, Chancellors, and many Finance Ministers in Europe.

He regularly interviewed the CEOs & CFOs of the world’s blue chip companies, and the CIOs/strategists/asset allocators of the world’s biggest banks/insurance companies/fund managers.

Where fame meets money – interviewed Ronaldo, Luis Figo, Ernie Els, Daryl Hannah etc

Reported from and filmed in most European cities, also, Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing, Dalian, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Hainan, Bangkok, Seoul, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Saigon & Hanoi, Singapore, Hong Kong, Lima, New York Stock Exchange, Washington DC, Delhi, Mumbai, Perth, Greenland, Sakhalin, Iceland, Doha, Dubai, and Bahrain.

Geoff has also moderated and spoken at events for: Lombard Odier, Erste Bank, UBS, Credit Suisse, Threadneedle, Henderson Global Investors, City of London Corporation, FSN Capital Partners, YPO Global Leadership Summit, The Atlantic Council, Institute of International Finance, GE Wind Energy, among many others.

Geoff has made regular appearances on MSNBC in the US to explain European business stories to a wider audience. He has also appeared on Sky News.

He wrote New Market Mavericks (2004) to positive reviews. And has written for Investors Chronicle, The Nation, Money Market & Motorcycle News.

Adrian Goldberg is an award-winning journalist and presenter.

Adrian is currently Editor and presenter of the Byline Times podcast, having written print articles for the British news organisation up until late 2023. Adrian also both produces and presents The Liquidator podcast, a fan podcast centring around the football team he supports – West Bromwich Albion.

He has presented a variety of programmes on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, across all English local radio and BBC WM. Adrian previously presented his own weekly show, 5 Live Investigates, looking at topical current affairs issues. He has also presented an ITV Tonight on the subject of housing for the elderly.

Adrian has won awards for his work including the Gillard Gold Award for Original Journalism and two Midlands Media Awards.

He has presented a number of live programmes for BBC radio. He presented coverage of Brexit and the 2019 General Election for local radio stations throughout England. For BBC Radio 5 he presented ‘The Holocaust – My Family Story’. For Radio 4 he presents the Report, File on Four and to great recent acclaim, a two-part series on mixed marriage, One to One. Adrian previously presented on TalkSport.

Former BBC One Watchdog and Politics Show presenter, Adrian made his name as an independent film-maker, following the release of his controversial investigative documentary Manchester Disunited And Other Football Feuds. It earned a rave “four-star” review in The Observer.

Adrian wrote a weekly column for the Birmingham Mail and previously edited edgy news and politics website, The Stirrer.

Paul Brand is the UK Editor for ITV News and presenter of ITV’s current affairs programme Tonight, covering the defining stories of our time. He regularly reports and has guest presented on Good Morning Britain, as well as providing expert analysis for Lorraine. He is a presenter on LBC Radio, as well as ITV’s Peston show.

In 2021/2022 he won a string of national and international awards, including London Press Club Broadcaster of the Year, for his explosive scoops revealing the partygate scandal. His exclusives included the infamous video of Downing Street staff laughing and joking about a Christmas Party and damaging revelations about Boris Johnson’s lockdown-breaking birthday party.

In 2020 he was named Political Journalist of the Year at the British Journalism Awards as the foremost journalist reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic in the care sector. His investigations were the first to reveal that patients were being systematically discharged from hospitals into care homes without testing, and he was the only journalist to secure an exclusive interview with the then Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, about the unfolding scandal. His reporting was also raised at Prime Minister’s Questions.

Paul’s impactful investigations across a spectrum of subjects have repeatedly changed government policy, most recently forcing the government to u-turn and reinstate its pledge to ban so-called conversion therapy. His undercover reporting on the practice has been repeatedly referenced in Parliament and earned him Broadcaster of the Year at the Pink News Awards 2018.

Outside of work, Paul is a patron of the charity Just Like Us and a co-founder of the initiative School Diversity Week, both of which try to make schools a happy environment for LGBT+ pupils.

Michael Buerk has probably won more international awards for television reporting than any other British journalist most notably for his coverage of the Ethiopian famine for BBC News in 1984/5. His reports filmed with the Nairobi-based cameraman, Mohamed Amin alerted the world to the extent of the tragedy. They were shown worldwide, to an audience of billions. They led directly to a massive international relief effort itself valued in billions of dollars, which was estimated to have saved well over a million lives.

He was named “Television Journalist of the Year” by the Royal Television Society in 1984 and won a second RTS award that year for foreign reporting. He has won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award for factual broadcasting. He has been awarded the “Golden Nymph” at the Monte Carlo Film and Television Festival Europe’s premier prize for television journalism and the United States “National Headliner” and “George Polk” awards, two of the three most important honours there for broadcasters.

In 1988 he was the third recipient of the James Cameron Memorial award, given for “work as a journalist that combined moral vision and professional integrity” in his coverage of the township uprising and state of emergency in South Africa.

Michael is chairman of The Moral Maze, the BBC Radio 4’s discussion programme on moral and ethical issues.

He also presents regular television series including Britain by Boat, two series of How the Victorians Built Britain, The Blitz: Britain on Fire, Celebrity 5 Go Barging and Britain’s Great Pensions Crisis on Channel 5. He has also presented the BBC One daytime series Royal Recipes and Heir Hunters and Britain’s Secret Treasures and Pompeii with Michael Buerk for ITV. On Channel 4 he has reported for several Dispatches documentaries and also presented the one-off Can I Improve My Memory?

Michael started at BBC TV News in 1973. He was a network reporter from 1973-1976, industrial correspondent (1976/7), Energy Correspondent (1977/9), Scotland Correspondent (1979/80), Special Correspondent (1980/2), Southern Africa Correspondent (1983/7).

He presented BBC Television’s flagship news programme, The Ten O’clock News and the peak-time BBC 1 programme about emergencies, 999.

Michael presented many other television and radio programmes for the BBC including major events such as the Royal Wedding of Prince Edward, the Solar Eclipse in 1999 and the BBC’s Millennium night coverage; BBC One’s Tobacco Wars, Soul of Britain and the three-part series The Hand of God in 2003. He also presented The Choice for Radio 4, a single interview programme about individual dilemmas.

He narrated the popular Sky One series Pineapple Dance Studios. He also appeared on reality shows I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here in 2014.

Michael’s autobiography, The Road Taken, was published by in 2004.

Michael also chairs conferences and seminars and is a highly skilled conference facilitator and after dinner speaker. He has a wealth of experience hosting events and award ceremonies, both at home and abroad.

Sports presenter Mike Bushell is unique. As well as presenting the main sports bulletins of the day he has profiled and personally sampled nearly 400 different sports and activities during Saturday morning slot on Breakfast. This is believed to be a world record and he also holds the unusual world record, for crossing one mile of water in a large inflatable ball known as a zorb, or waterwalker. This was for sport relief and with oxygen breaks, it took Mike 1 hour 57 seconds.

Mike is now well known to a wider audience after appearing on Strictly Come Dancing, attracting a large following and praise of his progression through the competition. He also danced on the Strictly Come Dancing tour, performing in major arenas throughout the UK, including the Birmingham NIA and the London 02.

Mike’s Saturday Breakfast slot started in 2006, with the aim being to prove there is a sport out there for all. He’s the guinea pig, going into bat on behalf of the beginner, trying to inspire others like him off the sofa at the weekend, to try something new. As well as profiling main stream sports events, with the top stars, whether it be a game of tennis against Novak Djokovic, or trying to bowl out Alistair Cook, he has often featured different new initiatives by well-known sports which are trying to tempt in new participants, by becoming more accessible. These have included Rush Hockey, and Cage Cricket. However, many of the hundreds of activities and sports he has featured, will be ones most people haven’t heard of before. Whether it be nurdling, or tchouckball, or shin kicking, whip cracking, bog snorkelling, or even worm charming, they all have one thing in common: they bring people together, exercising, getting fitter, and gaining confidence. They engage peoples’ passion, take up their weekends and show the power of sport. Mike says : “I am determined to prove that however un-sporty someone might feel, there is definitely out there, a sport for everyone.” You can now read about some of Mike’s suggestions and experiences discovering new sports in the book Bushell’s Best Bits.

Mike has vast experience of covering big sporting events, having reported and presented on the Olympics, Paralympics, the Winter games, Football World Cups, Commonwealth Games, and Asian Games. He has reported on these for Breakfast, the BBC News Channel and BBC World.

Mike has always been a keen sportsman, having played football, cricket and hockey at school. He also represented the county of Hertfordshire, at Chess, but it’s cross country running that he really excelled in, and in the 1980’s as a teenager, he ran 175miles in 6 days, setting off from his new home in Yorkshire to his old one in Hertfordshire, to raise money for charity.

Mike’s other passion was in acting, after he was spotted by the National Youth Theatre. He spent four years there and a degree in theatre and television followed, but while trying to make ends meet as an actor, he broke into journalism on a local newspaper in Winchester and the rest is history.

After a break from his journalism course (to tour Europe as lead singer in a rock band) he returned to newspapers in Derby and Windsor, before joining the BBC in 1990 as a reporter with Radio Solent.

In a way he was back to his roots. He wrote and published his own first newspaper called “The Daily Owl”, as an eager 8 year old.

His big TV break came with a job on the Isle of Wight – as the BBC reporter there for BBC South Today. Once there, after spells reading the news and presenting a Millennium history series, his passion for and knowledge of sport, shone through and he ended up reporting and presenting sport for BBC South.

Mike was on of the first faces on air when News 24 started in 1997 (now the BBC News channel), and still occasionally presents the sport on BBC News.

As well presenting duties on Breakfast, he has been doing some reporting for the programme, including the story of the robot camel jockeys that have saved the lives of children in the Middle East.

Mike’s hobbies include still playing football, (he supports Leeds United) running, (often with the Hash House Harriers), music, theatre and he spends most of his spare time with his wife Emily and his three daughters, from his previous marriage, and he’s hoping to eventually find a sport for all of them.

David FitzGerald has been in the media for over forty two years, covering television presentation, programme production, corporate and commercial presentations plus script writing, commercial voice overs and an after-dinner speaker (with a strong line in comedy). Leaving the BBC, he is now concentrating on event presentation such as The Festival of Remembrance service, the International Dementia Conference and the South West Business and Tourism Awards.

Starting in radio in 1980, David moved through ILR and into television by 1986. Based with TSW in Plymouth, he started working on the production side of programmes and soon made a name for himself as a scriptwriter. By 1994 he had joined the presentation side of Sky News and covered every major world event from the arrest of O.J.Simpson to Waiko and the Oklahoma bombings. David covered the death of Diana Princess of Wales, the war in Bosnia, General Elections, Royal Weddings and every major headline grabbing story for seven years.

Over the years he has written for Spitting Image, won The Olympic Committee’s award for television production for The Red Arrows Documentary and even appeared as a question in Trivial Pursuit! He has written five children’s books with Falkland’s veteran Simon Weston CBE. He has also toured with Simon telling his life story with theatre dates from Glasgow to Gibraltar.

David is an experienced after dinner speaker working throughout Great Britain and on cruises.

Gamal Fahnbulleh is an experienced anchor with ITV Granada Reports – ITV’s regional award-winning news programme for the North West of England.

Born in West Africa, Gamal moved to London with his family in 1986. After graduating with a BA Honours from Manchester University in Politics and History he went on to do a Masters Degree in International Politics before enrolling on a postgraduate diploma course in Broadcast Journalism at City University. While at City, he was one of only ten candidates nationally to be selected for the ITV News Group Bursary Scheme in 2005.

He has worked extensively with the British Army as two North West regiments trained and prepared for a six-month tour of Afghanistan at home and overseas. In the summer of 2010 he was embedded in Nad-e Ali, Afghanistan with the First Battalion, The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment. In that year ITV Granada received the award for Best Regional Story, ‘Our Troops in Afghanistan’ at the RTS North West Awards.

Gamal has also worked for Sky News where he held both solo and co-anchor positions across the day’s output, including flagship programmes Sky News Breakfast, Sky News Tonight and Sky News at Ten. When Gamal was not conducting interviews with high profile politicians and celebrities or carrying out the morning and evening newspaper review, he was delivering ‘Breaking News’ in a fast-paced journalistic environment handling rolling news and live updates.

Gamal has also worked for ITV Breakfast as the Northern based Correspondent for Good Morning Britain and worked extensively on the Hillsborough enquiry. He has also worked as a reporter for ITN.
When not working, Gamal has a love of all things history and spends his free time reading fact based novels from the classical and medieval period. He is also a self-confessed film buff and will happily lose an evening to some classic cinema or the latest blockbuster.

Having specialised in African and Middle Eastern politics and history at university he maintains his interest in these areas and travels back to West Africa when he can, visiting family. He looks to combine his passion for travelling with his love for food and enjoys experiencing new cultures and destinations with his wife Liz, whenever possible. Both have an interest in emerging themselves in new cultures and traditions.

A talented sportsman growing up, Gamal represented his school, county and region in Rugby and hockey. He remains a keen fitness fanatic, living by the mantra that a healthy body is a healthy mind.

Tim Ewart is a royal commentator. He frequently appears on NBC’s channels, including MSNBC discussing royal news, including the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh, the death and funeral of HM The Queen and the Coronation of King Charles III.

Tim was ITV News’ Royal Editor from 2009 to 2017 covering all major tours, the Diamond Jubilee, the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the birth of two royal babies and celebrations for the Queen’s longest reign and 90th birthday, as well as interviewing all the senior royals.

During his long career at ITN, he was the correspondent in Africa, Moscow, Warsaw and Washington, and Sports Editor, covering many of the biggest international stories – from the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union to The Olympics. He has reported from over 100 countries.

He also found the time to write two royal books: “Queen Elizabeth II, A Celebration of Her Majesty’s 90th Birthday” and “The Treasures of Queen Elizabeth ll.

He also presented BBC News South East for three years.

Moira Stuart’s career in radio and television spans six decades.

In February 2019, she joined Classic FM to be the station’s morning news presenter from 6am-10am. Moira presents the weekly Hall of Fame programme for Classic FM. She also presents ‘Moira Stuart Meets…’, which features interviews with the most well-known names from the worlds of the arts, politics, sport and entertainment.

For nine years Moira presented the news on Chris Evans’ BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show. She also presented her own show on BBC Radio 2, Music ‘til Midnight, on Sunday nights.

Moira started her BBC career as a production assistant in Radio’s Talks and Documentaries Department in the 1970s, before moving on to become a BBC Radio 4 announcer and a newsreader and programme presenter. Moira moved to television news in 1981 to become the first female African-Caribbean newsreader, presenting every type of BBC News bulletin before leaving in 2007.

Moira has presented many programmes on radio and television including The Big Spell for Sky 1, The Holiday Programme and Have I Got News For You on BBC One. She appeared on BBC One’s successful documentary series Who Do You Think You Are? and made a memorable appearance as herself in Extras. In March 2007 she presented the documentary In Search of Wilberforce for BBC Television, examining the role of anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the British bill that banned the slave trade. Moira has also appeared on BBC One’s Would I Lie To You? and ITV’s Harry Hill’s Alien Fun Capsule. Moira presented the BBC World Service documentary, The Unknown Soldier. Moira also took part in the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special in 2021.

Moira has won numerous awards across her career including the “TV and Radio Industries Club Best Newscaster”, the “Women of Achievement Television Personality” award, and the Harvey Lee Award for “Outstanding Contributions to Broadcasting” at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2020. She received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Edinburgh and Canterbury Christchurch University in 2006 and 2013 respectively and an Honorary Doctor of Letters degrees from De Montford in 2012 and Northumbria University in July 2013. She was awarded an OBE in 2001 and a CBE in the New Year Honours list 2022.

Moira has served on various boards and judging panels including Amnesty International, The Royal Television Society, BAFTA, United Nations Association, the London Fair Play Consortium, the Human Genetics Advisory Commission, the Orange Prize for Literature, the BUPA Communications Panel, the IVCA, the Queen’s Anniversary Prize and the Grierson Trust. She is an active Ambassador for the Prince’s Trust.

Julia Somerville is currently one of the presenters on the successful flagship consumer BBC One series Rip Off Britain. She also presented Rip Off Britain’s spin off series Food, Holidays and Rip Off Britain: LIVE.

Julia Somerville began her career in broadcasting when she joined the BBC in 1972 as a sub-editor in the Radio Newsroom. She became a chief-sub and then a reporter and was made Labour Affairs Correspondent in 1981. In 1983 she was recruited by BBC Television News to present the Nine O’Clock News.

In 1987 Julia joined ITN. During the next 14 years she presented News at Ten, the Lunchtime News and launched the ITN News Channel. She left ITN in 2001.

She is currently Chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Government Art Collection.

Dani has been a presenter with ITN for several years after a long stint at the BBC. She was involved with the launch of ITVX and was a familiar face on ITV News as a roving reporter whilst working on special investigations.

Parm Sandhu is a remarkable individual whose journey has broken barriers and paved the way for change. With a distinguished career in law enforcement and a commitment to advocating for women’s rights and diversity, Parm has left an indelible mark on both the media industry and society at large.

Parm Sandhu made history as the first and to date only Asian Female Chief Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police Service, a role that showcased her exceptional leadership skills and dedication to public service. After more than three decades of service, Parm retired from the police force in 2020, leaving behind a legacy of achievement and empowerment.

But her impact goes beyond her official title. Parm is a tireless advocate for women and individuals, using her platform to raise awareness about violence against women and girls. Her activism and commitment to women’s rights have made her a beacon of inspiration for countless individuals.

Parm’s influence extends beyond law enforcement. She has become a familiar face in the media landscape, frequently appearing as a radio and TV broadcaster and consultant on policing matters. From news and discussion programs on prestigious platforms like BBC, Sky and CNN to documentaries that shed light on important social issues, Parm’s contributions resonate with audiences worldwide.

Parm’s authenticity and resilience have made her a sought-after speaker and motivator. Her experiences growing up as one of six children in a household where English wasn’t spoken, overcoming the challenges of forced marriage at a young age, and enduring domestic violence have given her a unique perspective on resilience and triumph. Parm’s presentations are captivating, evocative, and thought-provoking, leaving audiences inspired to overcome their own obstacles.

In her poignant memoir, “Black and Blue,” Parm shares her extraordinary journey from a difficult childhood to the upper echelons of the police force. Her story is one of perseverance in the face of discrimination and adversity. The book is a testament to her courage and determination, making it a must-read for those seeking inspiration and insight into the challenges of breaking down barriers.

Parm’s commitment to education and advocacy is unwavering. As a director of the London Policing College and an Associate Lecturer at the University of West London, she imparts her wealth of knowledge to the next generation of law enforcement professionals. Parm remains dedicated to combating violence against women and girls, speaking at conferences and leading workshops to foster awareness and change.

Additionally, Parm’s passion for mentorship shines through in her support of officers and staff in their developmental journeys. She’s an active member of the International Association of Women Police and contributes to equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts.

Parm Sandhu’s life story is a testament to the power of determination, resilience, and the pursuit of justice. Her impact as a trailblazer, advocate, and speaker continues to inspire individuals across the globe, encouraging them to challenge boundaries and create positive change.

Libby Potter is an experienced reporter with 10 years work on television and radio. Most recently she presented the BBC’s flagship business show, The Money Programme, on BBC Two and a spin-off three-parter on the Credit Crunch entitled Money Watch.

Libby’s career began reviewing the US Box Office for BBC News 24 from their New York bureau. She then moved to the seminal entertainment show ‘Liquid News’ on BBC Three. After Liquid, Libby became one of the two faces of cult celebrity stock market show ‘Celebdaq’. Other roles included presenting BBC Three News and ’60 Seconds’ and hosting a behind the scenes show about BBC spy series ‘Spooks’.

As a business and consumer affairs specialist, she fronted two presenter-led documentaries for BBC Three’s ‘Outrageous Fortunes’ series, reporting from Japan, Hawaii, Dubai, South Africa, and the US.

Libby has presented an online series for City Index, Trading Academy and recently hosted a number of panels at Retail Week Live.

The scope and quality of her work has been recognised by the Royal Television Society who entered her into their Hall of Fame in 1996. In 2002 she was voted European Woman of Achievement and in the Queen’s Birthday Honours of 2004 she was awarded an OBE in recognition of her services to Broadcasting, Charity and the Arts. Angela was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to dementia care in her role as development lead with Dementia Friendly Communities.

Trained as a journalist in her home town of Plymouth, Angela worked for both BBC Plymouth and the ITV station Westward Television before joining BBC National News in 1973. She was appointed the first woman journalist newsreader in 1975 and made two memorable appearances in the Morecambe and Wise Christmas Shows. She was a founder member of the commercial breakfast service TV-am in 1982 and in 1984 moved to America to work for CBS in Boston.

Angela presents BBC One’s flagship consumer programme Rip-Off Britain. She also regularly reports for The One Show and Morning Live, both on BBC One. She appeared in the 2023 series of Strictly Come Dancing, making it to Blackpool and winning the admiration of viewers with her high kicks!

She has presented a wide variety of programmes from hard news and current affairs to quiz shows and magazine programmes for both BBC and commercial radio and television. Titles include Come Dancing; Top Gear, the Antiques Roadshow, Masterteam, Crufts Championship, Holiday Hit Squad, The Holiday Programme, How To Stay Young, The Truth About Dementia, Britain’s Greatest Invention and HealthCheck UK Live, BBC One’s series offering health advice and tips, as well as companionship during the Covid lockdown. Angela was also the voice of the question master on the hit BBC One game show The Wall, with Danny Dyer.

Angela is committed to a number of charities, including the British Red Cross of which she is Vice President and The Alzheimer’s Society.

Angela has written 14 books including Fabulous at Fifty and Beyond.

Mary-Ann is a familiar presence on national and international television and radio, presenting for networks including the BBC, Channel 4, Discovery, National Geographic and Smithsonian. She has written and presented radio documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service, and hosted podcasts for Audible, Wiley and the BBC.

Mary-Ann used her archaeological and science journalism expertise co-presenting the popular Smithsonian series Mystic Britain and got hands on with historic boats for BBC Two’s Britain Afloat and walked in the footsteps of the ancients on the Ridgeway trail for BBC’s Countryfile. Mary-Ann presented Secrets of Stonehenge for English Heritage, is a regular on History’s Ancient Top 10 and Ancient Impossible, and was co-presenter on the penultimate series of cult archaeology show, Time Team. She’s the co-host of the sci comm podcast This Study Shows, for Wiley, now in its third series.

As an anthropologist, her empathy and insight into human behaviour and culture come to the fore. This summer she was Walking the Iron Curtain for the BBC World Service, discovering the legacy of the border for people and wildlife. For Living on the Roof of the World (Discovery Networks) Mary-Ann spent seven weeks filming with herders, farmers and pilgrims on the high Tibetan plateau. She was also part of the presenting team for Time of Xi (Discovery Asia), exploring the realities of life in modern China. For BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service, she has investigated male circumcision (Why We Cut Men), the global sanitation scandal (A Dirty Secret), and met the military veterans using archaeology to recover their mental health (Open Country: Exercise Shallow Grave). Expedition documentaries for Animal Planet have taken her to the Chernobyl nuclear exclusion zone (Life After: Chernobyl), and to investigate real cases of extraordinary child survival in Fiji, Uganda and Ukraine (Raised Wild).

Trusted as an warm, informed and agile interviewer, Mary-Ann has chaired public events for museums and institutes including the Science Museum, British Museum and Royal Institution, and presented her own work at literary, science and culture festivals, including Chip Lit, How the Light Gets In and HistFest. She’s also in demand for corporate work, and offers specific expertise in equity, diversity and inclusion.

Mary Ann’s forthcoming book, The Briefest History of Humanity will be published in 2024 by Pan Macmillan. It explores the science of ourselves – from lowly origins, our species has been so wildly successful, we’ve inadvertently transformed the planet, both for ourselves and all other life on Earth. How did humans do it, was it inevitable, and what might the journey so far tell us about the road ahead?

Mary-Ann’s previous books have celebrated archaeology for a wide readership: Secret Britain profiles mysterious sites and artefacts from around the country; Hidden Histories: A Spotter’s Guide to the British Landscape, reveals the history of the countryside, with tips on identifying everything from burial mounds and ancient trails to historic pubs. It was shortlisted in the Current Archaeology Awards, and selected as a New Statesman Book of the Year.

Mary-Ann regularly previews the papers for Sky News, reports and presents for ITN Business, has contributed to BBC News and BBC Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent. She writes a regular column for TGO outdoors magazine, and has features regularly commissioned for publications including the Telegraph, Guardian, Countryfile Magazine, BBC Wildlife Magazine and The Week Junior.

Mary Ann is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a Hill Walking Ambassador for the British Mountaineering Council. She is a trustee of the John Muir Trust, the wild places charity, a patron of the Ridgeway National Trail, and a patron of the Tony Trust, which gives bursaries to underprivileged kids to access outdoor adventure. She’s also an ambassador for global sanitation charity Toilet Twinning. Mary-Ann also serves as a member of the Landscape Advisory Panel for Natural England, advising the government’s statutory body on access and equity issues, and people’s engagement with heritage.

Mary-Ann has an MA in Archaeology & Anthropology from Cambridge University. She is an experienced cold water UK scuba diver, enthusiastic horse rider and keen walker, passionate about encouraging more people to get outside and reconnect with natural places. She was proud to be shortlisted for Outdoor Personality of the Year in the TGO Magazine Reader Awards in 2021. Mary-Ann is a qualified Mental Health First Aider.

Sally is the former Director of Royal Communications for Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Royal Household. She also led communications at the BBC and has significant experience in understanding the practicalities and impact of soft power to help address modern leadership challenges.

She also led communications for SONY Europe, SKY television and UK broadcaster Channel 5, all during periods of market transformations, commercial challenges, innovation and crisis, learning valuable lessons under intense reputational and political pressures and public/media scrutiny.

Now a Senior Advisor at global CEO strategic advisory firm Teneo and a Meyler Campbell-accredited leadership coach, Sally is a board director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, of the English National Opera and a trustee of Our Future Health, the UK’s largest ever health research programme, developing new ways to prevent, detect and treat diseases.

Sally participated in the television coverage of the deaths of the Duke of Edinburgh and HM The Queen for the BBC, CNN and CTV in Canada.

Having started her career in newspaper and magazine journalism after studying law at Exeter University, Sally is an alumnus of the Wharton Business School, a Fellow and former Vice Chair of the Royal Television Society and member of The Marketing Group of Great Britain.

Ayesha is a highly respected award-winning solicitor with more than 20 years of experience in the legal field. She runs her own law firm in Manchester which covers areas of law including personal injury, family law, criminal injuries compensation and civil litigation. She is acclaimed for providing clear, no-nonsense advice when it comes to divorce, child contact and domestic abuse in particular.

Ayesha co-presented Crime, Are We Tough Enough?, a five-part series for BBC One. In the programmes Ayesha examined why many believe the criminal justice system has broken down. Ayesha, who has represented many victims of crime advocated a tougher system with longer sentences, harsher prison environments and increased police powers to restore law and order back on our streets. Utilising her vast experience she interviewed victims, ex-villains, prison officers, doctors and spent time with police on the front line. The programme was a widespread ‘pick of the week’ in the press.

Ayesha makes regular appearances on Steph’s Packed Lunch on Channel 4 and the popular consumer series Rip Off Britain on BBC One, as well as Morning Live and The One Show.

Ayesha has also contributed to Sunday Morning Live, BBC Breakfast, The Victoria Derbyshire Show all on BBC and Sky News. She has written articles for numerous publications and blogs. She has her own live call in show on a local radio station where she gives legal advice.

Ayesha combines a warm and empathetic interviewing style with pursuing the truth; cross examining and grilling interviewees.

In 2019 she was a winner at The Law Society’s Excellence Awards, Best Business Women Awards and The English Asian Awards.

Ayesha is proud of her working class heritage having grown up in Manchester. As a Pakistani Muslim woman, she is strong in her faith and commitment to the issues that affect ethnic minorities.

Dr. Sian Williams is an award-winning broadcast journalist whose warmth and presentation skills have made her one of the best known and most versatile broadcasters on British television and radio. She is also a Chartered Counselling Psychologist working for both the NHS and in private practise, helping people manage anxiety, stress and trauma.

Sian’s career in broadcasting spans nearly forty years. She spent over a decade anchoring ‘BBC Breakfast’. During that time, audiences more than doubled. Sian also presented all the BBC’s main news bulletins and hosted major events for BBC One, including the London 2012 Olympics, the Royal Weddings of Charles and Camilla and William and Kate, numerous General Elections and the commemorations marking the anniversaries of the two World Wars. Sian’s presented many prime-time TV shows, including ‘Crimewatch’ and ‘National Treasures Live’ for BBC One and numerous series of ‘Save Money, Good Health’, which ran on ITV1 over several years.

In her radio work, as BBC Radio 4’s co-presenter of ‘Saturday Live’, Sian helped attract more than a quarter of a million new listeners. She was also the co-host of a unique programme, in which she was joined in the BBC studios by The Queen, to broadcast live.

Sian is now the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s ‘Life Changing’, a series focusing on moments in people’s lives which transform everything. To date, ‘Life Changing’ has had more than seven million downloads, is one of BBC Sounds most listened-to podcasts and consistently ranks in Radio 4’s Top 5 programmes. Sian is known for her interviewing ability and was listed in the Radio Times Top 10 broadcast interviewers of all time and awarded the Television and Radio Industries Club Best Newsreader/Reporter twice in successive years.

Sian is proud to be able to bring stories of mental well-being to a mass audience, using her journalistic and psychological skills. During her time as Channel 5’s main news anchor, she introduced the UK’s first dedicated mental health slot on a TV news bulletin. Called ‘Mind Matters with Dr Sian’, it covered issues ranging from ADHD, addiction, anxiety, eating disorders, OCD and PTSD.

In her work as a psychologist, Sian has a thriving private practice, where she offers consultancy, workshops, group and individual therapy. She is a Senior Specialist Psychological Therapist at the Centre for Anxiety, Stress and Trauma at the NHS, where she primarily helps emergency service staff recover from work-related traumatic events. In 2023, Sian hosted an event for HRH Prince William, meeting first responders and listening to their mental health concerns. She is a regular host of the annual Emergency Services Mental Health Symposium, which is supported by the Royal Foundation.

Sian has been a key-note speaker or hosted major events for Google, the British Psychological Society, the BBC, ITV, ITN, King’s College, London and more. She has written on mental health issues for newspapers and magazines such as The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, Good Housekeeping and The Psychologist.

Sian’s first book Rise: Surviving and Thriving after Trauma was published in June 2016 and she is working on her second, about managing anxiety.

Ayshah Tull is a BAFTA nominated Presenter and Journalist for Channel 4 News.

Ayshah received a BAFTA nomination for the first Channel 4 News show that she presented, a special edition of the programme called Black to Front. She hosted alongside black colleagues who worked behind the scenes. The show was described as a “ground-breaking” TV first.

Ayshah joined Channel 4 News in 2019. Her broadcasting on the show includes leading coverage from the Caribbean on death of Queen Elizabeth the second, particularly reflecting on the commonwealth’s response. She’s also covered the US Elections in 2020 travelling to several states during the Covid pandemic and spending a lot of time in Florida interviewing Donald Trump supporters. She reported throughout the pandemic on the biggest developments, challenging the Prime Minister and Health Secretary on their policies and deputising for the Health and Social Care Editor.

During her time at Channel 4 News she has won four awards (in one year) for her journalism. In 2020 Ayshah won Journalist of the Year and the Grand Prize at The Drum Online Media Awards, the first time this has been awarded to an individual.
Ayshah has presented an edition of Unreported World for Channel 4 – Divorce Mauritania Style.

Ayshah was previously a BBC Newsround Presenter from 2013-2018, where she covered the 2016 US elections travelling to Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania to talk to kids about their feelings ahead of the big vote. She also presented and reported the Manchester terror attack and navigated children through the really challenging story.

Ayshah hosted several high profile events for the Science Museum, the British Library, Latitude Festival and V&A Museum.

Ayshah is also a Senior Fellow for the John Schofield Trust and mentors young journalists, especially those from underrepresented backgrounds to help them navigate their career.

Daisy is a freelance radio and TV presenter, reporter and writer. She has 30 years’ experience reporting on UK politics, economics and business as well as the British Royal Family.

Daisy currently presents multiple shows on talktv including The Talk and 1st Edition. She helped launch talkTV in April 2022 by hosting her own prime time news and current affairs show at 10pm. Since September 2022 she has presented the Drive Time show and the 7-8pm show as well her regular shows. She is a well known face on American TV screens as NBC News’ Royal Commentator.

Daisy has had senior reporting roles at BBC and ITV News including Chief Political Correspondent, Economics Editor and Special Correspondent.

She has presented the BBC’s Daily Politics, multiple shows on TalkRadio, was the host of the O2 Business Show on LBC, Radio 4’s The World Tonight, had her own drive time show Driving Miss Daisy on LBC Radio, had a daily election show for London Live TV, hosted Channel 4’s Powerhouse, the BBC’s Heaven and Earth Show, ITV’s Moral of the Story as well as presenting ITV Lunchtime News and the BBC’s Weekend News.

Daisy has also guested on Have I Got News for You?, The Wright Stuff, The Jeremy Vine Show, Loose Women and Despatch Box amongst others and has been a familiar face on ITV’s This Morning, Good Morning Britain and Euronews.

She is a regular paper reviewer on the BBC’s News Channel and Radio 4’s Broadcasting House.

Before moving into broadcasting in 2001 she spent a decade working in Westminster, starting off as a 19-year-old MP’s researcher before writing for many newspapers from the Press Gallery, profiling MPs in The House Magazine – which she ultimately edited – as well as working for Lib Dem Leader Charles Kennedy as his Press Secretary. She was a consultant on the BBC’s A-Z of Politics and edited The Politics Companion, published by Chrysalis books.

Sarah Hewson is a journalist and broadcaster with more than 20 years’ experience covering some of the biggest national and international news stories.

Sarah has been Royal Editor at Talk TV for two years. She has also co-presented Washington Post’s coverage of the death of HM The Queen and the Coronation of King Charles. She also frequently comments of royal news on Times Radio.

Sarah has spent most of her career at Sky News where she presented every programme from Breakfast through to the flagship News At Ten and hosted her own weekly programme Sky News with Sarah Hewson.

For many years, Sarah was the channel’s Royal Correspondent and anchored Sky’s coverage of two royal weddings, royal births and the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh.

She has interviewed six senior members of the royal family, the last five UK prime ministers and high-profile figures from the worlds of business, sport and entertainment.

She has reported from Westminster to the White House, the Amazon, Africa and Australia.

Sarah has covered major breaking stories including the 7/7 bombings, the London Bridge terror attack, the death of Osama Bin Laden as well as Britain’s Brexit negotiations and the coronavirus pandemic.

She is mother to three children and Patron of OSCAR’s Paediatric Brain Tumour charity.

Lara is a TV presenter, journalist, and documentary maker specialising in lifestyle technology. She co-presents the BBC’s flagship technology show, Click (BBC One / BBC News). Having studied AI Ethics, and with a passion for people’s understanding artificial intelligence’s possibilities and limitations, she’s become a leading commentator across the media.

Lara has presented the BBC Panorama programme Beyond Human: Artificial Intelligence and Us and Tonight: Healthy Ageing for ITV1 and has written numerous articles on the topic.

Lara has appeared as an expert across a range of outlets including ITV’s Lorraine, BBC1’s The One Show, ITV’s Good Morning Britain, and has fronted several documentaries for Radio 4 including “A Documentary: By ChatGPT”.

Her other passion for living our healthiest lives for longer has seen her not only often wear an array of trackers, but also make a lot of content on longevity and health innovation. Her BBC documentary, “Forever Young?” saw her quest to separate science from snake oil, unravelling the real evidence of how we may be able to increase our “healthspans”.

Before joining Click in 2011, Lara’s media experience was vast and varied. She started out as a reporter for Channel Five, interviewing the biggest stars in the world, and fitting in a few gadget reviews for the channel when she had time. She was the technology columnist for the UK’s biggest selling weekly magazine, Woman, for four years, and has written for many other publications

Jenni Murray DBE began her broadcasting career in local radio in Bristol as a presenter and producer of a daily mid morning programme of phone ins, current events and music. She went on to become a television presenter, reporter and documentary maker, first in Leeds and then on South Today in Southampton.

In the early eighties she became a presenter and reporter on Newsnight, joined Today as a presenter on Radio 4 in 1986 and, in late 1987, became the presenter of Woman’s Hour on Radio 4.

She has interviewed every Prime Minister of the last thirty years, is as comfortable with high powered politicians as with the grieving parents of Madeleine McCann and the first Hollywood star she encountered was Bette Davies. There have been many more. She was a frequent presenter of radio 3’s Sunday morning programme during her years in Manchester.The late foreign correspondent, Charles Wheeler, described Jenni as having ‘the most beautiful voice on the radio – ever.’

Jenni has made numerous television documentaries including the Duchy of Cornwall with Prince Charles for BBC 2 and Right to Die for Channel Five. She was one of the presenters, along with Paul Heiney, of ITV’s This Sunday Morning and was twice the winner of The Weakest Link. In December 2020 she surprised many by taking part in ITV’s The Real Full Monty to great acclaim. The announcement of her participation made front page news.

She has hosted award ceremonies for a range of clients, most recently for women in the armed forces. She is sought after as an after dinner speaker, conference chair and inspirational speaker on subjects and for clients as wide ranging as the NSPCC, a rugby club, women in the law and personal assistants.

She writes regularly for a number of publications, including a weekly column in the Daily Mail and is the author of several books including, most recently, A History of Britain in 21 Women, A History of the World in 21 Women and Fat Cow, Fat Chance.

Jenni presented a podcast for the organisation Now Teach who encourage people changing their careers to consider teaching.

Jenni has won many awards including the Broadcasting Press Guild Radio Broadcaster of the Year in 1995, Sony Best Interview in 2010 and the Sony Gold Award for Outstanding Career Achievement in 2011.

In 2011 she became Dame Jenni Murray in recognition of her contribution to broadcasting.

Fi Glover co-presents the Times Radio afternoon show from 3-5pm with Jane Garvey from Monday to Thursday. Fi and Jane also present the ‘best of’ podcast Off Air which accompanies their show.

Fi previously presented the hit BBC podcast Fortunately with Jane Garvey. The podcast has been downloaded over 25 million times, was the 2018 winner of the ARIAS (Audio and Radio Industry Awards) Funniest Show and won Silver at the 2019 British Podcast Awards. In 2021 it was in the top 3 most listened to podcasts on BBC Sounds and has been No. 1 in the Apple podcast charts.

From the podcast came a book ‘Did I Say That Out Loud?’ written with Jane Garvey and published by Orion in 2021, along with a series of sell out live shows across the UK.

Fi is a weekly columnist for Waitrose Weekend.

During her time at the BBC Fi presented The Listening Project for Radio 4, an ambitious joint initiative by the British Library and the BBC “to capture the nation in conversation”.

She joined the BBC in 1993 on the Trainee Reporter Scheme, going on to GLR in London as a junior reporter and working her way up to present the Breakfast Show with Gideon Coe. In 1996, she moved to BBC Radio 5 Live to present The Ad Break and spent seven years there as a key broadcaster in news and political coverage, presenting Sunday Service, with Charlie Whelan and Andrew Pierce, Late Night Live, the Afternoon Show and the mid-morning phone in.

In 2004 Fi took over from Eddie Mair on Broadcasting House before launching BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live which she hosted from 2006 to 2011. In May 2008 Saturday Live won Best UK Speech Programme at the Sony Awards. In 2010 readers of Radio Times voted Glover the 9th Most Powerful Voice on Radio.

In Autumn 2015, she also launched My Perfect Country on the BBC World Service – a show looking at successful public policy around the globe. Described by the Radio Times as ‘one of the best ideas on the radio’ the programme opened the UN ECOSOC session of 2016 in New York City at the invitation of the UN Secretary General. Two spin off series of My Perfect City were made in 2019.
Fi has also hosted a variety of other series for Radio 4 in the last decade including: Two Rooms, Shared Experience, Glass Half Full, Revolutionary Radio and has made several documentaries focusing on experiences of modern parenting with producer Sarah Cuddon – Listen Without Mother in July 2014, The Great Egg Freeze July 2014,The Expressing Room March 2018 and Dads and The Delivery Room in December 2019.

On television Fi has presented The Travel Show on BBC Two in the late 1990’s, in 2014 she hosted BBC One’s six part reality history show, 24 Hours in the Past , she has hosted several editions of Newsnight and appeared on Sport Relief Does Bake Off where Mary Berry described her cookies as ‘great for the family biscuit tin’. That still hurts Fi to this day.

Fi was Chair of Judges for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2008, is a Fellow of the Radio Academy and a founder of Sound Women. She has been described by the Guardian as ‘velvet voiced’ but prefers the Mail on Sunday term ‘bucanneering’.

Jane Garvey co-presents the Times Radio afternoon show from 3-5pm with Fi Glover from Monday to Thursday. Jane and Fi also present the ‘best of’ podcast Off Air which accompanies their show.

Jane previously presented the hit BBC podcast Fortunately with Fi Glover. The podcast has been downloaded over 25 million times, was the 2018 winner of the ARIAS (Audio and Radio Industry Awards) Funniest Show and won Silver at the 2019 British Podcast Awards. In 2021 it was in the top 3 most listened to podcasts on BBC Sounds and has been No. 1 in the Apple podcast charts.

Jane is the Radio Times’ weekly television columnist and also presents a podcast for Radio Times.

During her time at the BBC Jane presented the flagship Radio 4 programme Life Changing where she talked to people who have lived through extraordinary events and discovered how these moments reshaped lives in the most unpredictable ways.

Jane presented BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour for 13 years and presented her final show at the end of 2020.

Jane has presented a wide range of documentaries for Radio 4 including the series, Summer Nights and The Lost World of the Suffragettes for BBC World Service. She has also narrated documentaries on television, including a recent Channel 5 programme on Dolly Parton.

Before she joined Radio 4 she co-presented Five Live’s Drive Show on weekday afternoons on BBC Radio Five Live, for which she received Sony’s News Broadcaster Award Gold Medal in 2002. Jane was the first voice on BBC Radio Five Live when it launched in March 1994, as co-presenter of the award-winning Breakfast Programme. As part of the station’s 20th anniversary Jane presented a special programme. Jane previously also presented the Sunday evening BBC 5 Live programme with Peter Allen.

Jane is also a Non-executive director for the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.

Jane’s first book, Did I Say that Out Loud? with Fi Glover was published in September 2021. Jane and Fi toured theatres across Britain discussing their book.

Outside of broadcasting, Jane has chaired events, including the Stratford Upon Avon Literary Festival as well as the Hay Literary Festival.

Kait Borsay has been bringing her conversational style to Times Radio for over two years, and currently presents The Evening Edition, from 8-10pm every Monday to Thursday. She has built a loyal audience of listeners as she delves into the stories of the day covering news, politics, education, health and social affairs. Insightful, sparky and always with a smile, Kait has a passion for bringing diverse stories and fresh voices to the airwaves.

Whilst at Times Radio, Kait has championed particular causes, developing an engaged following as she returns to issues like Long Covid, rights for care home residents, children’s mental health, the rights and advocacy of young people, and neurodiversity in women.

A broadcast journalist for over two decades, in the last five years, Kait has expanded her portfolio into news and current affairs. A keen self-starter, often pitching her own stories, Kait has been commissioned by the Audio Content Fund and was runner up at the IRN Commercial Radio Awards for a documentary on loneliness. She has recently started writing for The Times and The Sunday Times across health, lifestyle and social affairs.

Clear, authoritative and comfortable on screen, Kait has presented television news programming for Sky News, Reuters and ITN. She has also developed audio projects for The Telegraph and hosted podcasts for large corporate brands, like P&G and EY. She covered news and politics as an in-vision reporter for talkRADIO, and presented the station’s Drivetime show alongside Eamonn Holmes.

Kait started her career in sports journalism at Sky Sports. She has covered several major sporting tournaments from the beaches of Brazil to the Highlands of Scotland. She is co-founder of The Offside Rule, an awarding-winning, female-fronted football podcast and website. It has featured in the Guardian’s top five sport podcasts and was listed as Vogue’s best football podcast of 2018. In 2022, The Offside Rule was part-acquired by the New York Times.

Alice Beer has a reputation as a fearless and thorough consumer journalist.

Alice is ITV This Morning‘s Consumer Editor, regularly appearing on the programme. Her reports on safety in household white goods led to the recalling of products and discussion in parliament.

Alice first made her name on the BBC consumer show Watchdog, co-presenting alongside Anne Robinson, where she took undercover reporting jobs and exposed some of the biggest industries in the country for the way they were treating consumers. Alice went on to front many major BBC Series mostly with a strong consumer angle: Healthcheck, Face Value, Holiday, The Heaven and Earth Show, and a financial quiz: Show Me The Money. She has also hosted Channel 5’s Hot Property programme and LBC’s Breakfast Radio Show, written guest columns for the Daily Mail, the Sunday Express and Sunday Mirror, as well as conducting paper reviews for Sky News and appearing on The Chase Celebrity Special in 2021.

Alice is renowned for her tenacity and energy and whilst bringing up twin daughters has written a book “A Contented House With Twins”, published by Random House, and regularly contributed to various television programmes. She continues to write for newspapers and magazines and works behind the scenes as a consultant with many household high street companies, ensuring that their customers get a fair deal.

Alice lives in London with her partner and their twin daughters.

Joan Bakewell’s career as a Broadcaster and Journalist has spanned eight decades.

Her on screen presenting started in the 1960s and she became a household name as one of the presenters of Late Night Line Up on BBC Two between 1965 and 1972.

In the 1970s Joan worked on programmes for the BBC: Where is Your God? Who Cares, The Affirmative Way and many Holiday programmes between 1974 and 1978. Joan also starred in 4 series of ITV Granada’s pioneering Reports Action, a series that first encouraged the public to contribute goods and services to good causes.

Subsequently, she returned to the BBC, and co-presented a late-night television arts programme, briefly worked on the BBC Radio 4 PM programme, and was Newsnight’s arts correspondent (1986–88).

In the 90s Joan became the main presenter of the ethics documentary series Heart of the Matter, which she presented for 12 years.

She presented ten series of the award-winning flagship Sky Arts series Portrait Artist of the Year and Landscape Artist of the Year, initially alongside Frank Skinner and later Stephen Mangan.

Joan presented a number of Panorama programmes for BBC1 including Life at 100 looking at life as a centenarian, Our Dirty Nation and Old, Drunk and Disorderly? in which she investigated the hidden problem of alcohol abuse in older people, and The Generation Game, in which she explored the challenges ahead in caring for an ageing population.

On radio Joan presented the Radio 3 series Belief and Radio 4’s Inside the Ethics Committee for many years. She also presented two series for Classic FM, Joan Bakewell’s Lovers which explored the love lives of classical music’s great composers and performers. Other radio documentaries include the BBC Radio 4 programme on Dementia, Suppose I Lose It.

She has served on the board of the National Theatre, The Aldeburgh Festival, and Friends of the Tate, Shared Experience and also of The National Campaign for the Arts.

Joan has written many books including She’s Leaving Home, All The Nice Girls, The View From Here: Life at Seventy, Belief, The Centre of the Bed, Stop the Clocks – Thoughts on What I Leave Behind, and most recently The Tick of Two Clocks about downsizing her home and her experiences through life.

Joan has written for various national broadsheets including articles for and columns in The Times, Guardian, The Independent and The Telegraph.

She was the government appointed ‘Voice of Older People’ between 2008 and 2010.

Joan was awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the RTS Programme Awards 2016 and received a BAFTA Television Fellowship at the BAFTA TV Awards 2019.

Joan was made a CBE is 1999 and Dame in 2008. In January 2011 she took her seat in the House of Lords as Baroness Bakewell of Stockport. In April 2013, she became President of Birkbeck College.

The Joan Bakewell Archive is housed at the British Library. The papers can be accessed through the British Library catalogue.

Dr Saleyha Ahsan is an emergency medicine doctor. She is also a filmmaker and broadcast journalist, having worked and produced content for a variety of broadcasters.

On Channel 4 she has presented and produced the Dispatches programmes: Coronavirus: Can Our NHS Cope?, exploring the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the UK’s health services, presented What’s It Like to Catch Coronavirus? and Covid Critical: A Doctor’s Story, which she filmed and directed herself. She has presented films for BBC’s The One Show, Panorama, Newsnight, Horizon and co-presented several series of the hit BBC Two series Trust Me I’m a Doctor. She joined Channel 4’s SAS Who Dares Wins team as the onscreen medic and appeared on Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls in 2018. On Radio she has also presented BBC Radio 4’s Inside Health.

Saleyha appears regularly on Jeremy Vine on 5.

Saleyha began her broadcast career as a junior reporter for BBC local radio in London. She took a four-year break from journalism upon gaining a place at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to attend their arduous army officer training course. She was the first British Muslim woman to do so, and was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps as a non-medical support officer.

During her operational tour of Bosnia in 1997 as part of NATO’s Stabilisation Force (SFOR), Saleyha was inspired to re-train as a doctor, after witnessing severe trauma suffered by Bosnian civilians caused by landmines. She commenced her studies at the University of Dundee and resumed her journalism career as a freelancer at the same time.

Saleyha is an accomplished filmmaker, with her first cinematic short ‘My Mother’s Daughter’ winning Best European Film at the TED sponsored Pangea Film Festival in Los Angeles in 2008.

Her current affairs broadcast work spans coverage of humanitarian, health, and conflict reporting, and she has worked as either a filmmaker or doctor in Syria, Libya, Kashmir, Palestine, DR Congo and Pakistan. After years of witnessing and documenting the challenges of access to healthcare in conflict zones, she completed her LLM in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the University of Essex. This has now evolved to further study; she completed a PhD at Magdalene College, Cambridge where she examined the impact of attacks against healthcare in conflict zones.

When not pursuing current affairs, Saleyha also writes drama for BBC Radio 4, very much inspired by her journalism and is currently working on her fourth play. In 2018, in recognition of her media and humanitarian work, Saleyha was awarded an honorary degree from her alma mater, the University of Dundee.

Saleyha has spoken at a number of events. She was part of the Army Presentation Team during her time in the British Army and has since given talks on her experiences as a frontline doctor and journalist in Libya and at the Royal Society of Medicine’s ‘Extreme Medicine’ conference.

Tim Sebastian is the host and chairman of Conflict Zone, Deutsche Welle’s hard-hitting, flagship political talk show.

Prior to this, Tim chaired The New Arab Debates, also broadcast and distributed worldwide on Deutsche Welle TV between 2011 and 2015.

Tim was the first presenter of HARDtalk, BBC World’s daily half-hour interview programme, where he worked for more than seven years.

Tim was the founder and chairman of The Doha Debates which were broadcast across the globe on BBC World News from 2004 until 2012. The programmes, recorded in the Gulf state Qatar, provided a unique, uncensored forum for discussing the most controversial issues in the Arab and Islamic worlds.

In 2012 he presented the Outsider Debates, recorded in India and screened on Bloomberg TV.

in 1982, Tim was the winner of the “Richard Dimbleby Award” at BAFTA and was also named “Television Journalist of the Year” by the Royal Television Society. For two years running, in 2000 and 2001, he received the Royal Television Society’s “Interviewer of the Year” Award.

Her began his career as a foreign correspondent in Warsaw, covering the Solidarity revolution, before becoming the BBC’s Europe Correspondent in 1982 and Moscow Correspondent in 1984.
A year later he was expelled by the Soviet authorities and sent to Washington until 1989.

A best-selling author, he has written eight novels and two non-fiction books.

Tim has written widely for newspapers including the Mail on Sunday, The Sunday Times and the New York Times.

Born in London, Tim speaks Russian and German fluently and also holds a BA Honours degree in modern languages from Oxford University.

In 2015 he was elected a Fellow Commoner at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge to serve during the academic year 2015-16.

He also chairs conferences and seminars. He has a wealth of experience hosting events and award ceremonies, both at home and abroad.