Presenter and journalist Tazeen Ahmad makes films for Dispatches for Channel 4 including titles Woman Only Jihad, Undercover Mother and Christmas Credit Crisis.

 

 

Samira Ahmed is a familiar face to viewers as an experienced presenter and correspondent for Channel 4 News. Previously a news correspondent and presenter for BBC News, BBC World and Newsnight, and a presenter at Deutsche Welle TV in Berlin, Samira has reported extensively on crime, terrorism and the arts and was BBC Los Angeles correspondent.

 

Peter Allen is the Drivetime presenter for BBC Radio 5 Live. He was winner of the News Broadcaster Award Gold Medal at the Sony Radio Awards 2002.

 

 

Fiona’s work ranges from news, to features, to sport… She currently presents the evening news programme for ITV Border – but also makes films, the latest being a countryside series for ITV. She has also just finished co-presenting a local history series. 

 

Very rarely do programmes such as ‘The Apprentice’ produce stars of popular culture, but that was until the British public met and fell in love with entrepreneur, Tre Azam.

 

Zeinab is currently presenting live news bulletins on BBC World interviewing guests on all the main international topics of the day.

 

 

Joan Bakewell’s broadcasting career continues into its fourth decade with her series for BBC Radio 3: Belief. She also appears on Radio 4’s Saturday Live, BBC 1’s Daily Politics, and GMTV’s Sunday programme. Her latest play was broadcast on Radio 4 in 2007. Her first novel will be published early in 2009.

 

 

Matthew Bannister is a journalist and broadcaster.

He presents Radio 4's weekly obituary programme Last Word and is also regularly heard on Radio 5 Live - most recently presenting the network's mid morning phone-in. He has also presented Broadcasting House and Saturday PM on Radio 4.

 

 

Matt Barbet is a news correspondent and presenter for Channel Five News. He moved to Channel Five in October 2007 after spending four years as one of the main presenters at BBC London.

Tribute to Carol Barnes (1944- 2008)

 by

Jon Snow 

Carol and I started in broadcasting on the very same day in 1973 when our employer, LBC, hit the airwaves as the first legal commercial radio station in Britain. She had an infectious laugh, an irreverent giggle, and an ever present grasp of a good story.

After only a few months at LBC the place went bust and most of us were sacked. She and I found ourselves fronting ‘London at One’ - a direct competitor of ‘The World at One’. We had endless fun preparing every show, sitting at the same desk, amazed by the people prepared to join us on it. We could not believe that famous Westminster pols would deign to be interviewed by us.  Click here for more

 

Andrew was voted British Hairdresser of the year 2006/07 and is acclaimed as one of the world’s best hairdressers. Andrew has the well earned title of the ‘Peoples Hairdresser’ for the transformational looks he provides to ‘real women’ and his down to earth, accessible style as resident hairdresser on the UKs hit makeover show '10 Years Younger’.

 

 

Dr. Nick Baylis Well-being Scientist At Cambridge University, Nick is co-Director of the newly created Well-being Institute, where he endeavours to understand how each of us can make profound progress in our everyday lives: psychologically, physically, and socially. (Visit http://www.cambridgewellbeing.org/)

 

 

Phil has been hailed by no less than John Humphrys as, “One of the very best teachers in the country.” A former recipient of the ‘Secondary Teacher of the Year’ award in the National Teaching Awards, he is an English teacher at an inner city school, has written a bestselling book on education, ‘Could do better’ and he’s about take on adult literacy in a Channel 4 series called Can’t Read, Can’t Write.

 

Professor Medieval Archaelogy, Oxford University. Author of The Tomb of Christ and King Arthur's Round Table.

The spoken word IS his tool. Having appeared on the hugely successful show The Apprentice, Raef quickly catapulted himself into the hearts and minds of the British public. Post-Apprentice, Sir Alan Sugar has sung Raef's praises in various sectors of the media.

 

Broadcaster and journalist Jennie Bond appears regularly on a wide range of television and radio programmes - from light entertainment to documentaries.

She's known to young and old for her exploits in the jungle of ITV's I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here when she was buried in a coffin full of rats and had to eat a variety of live insects.

 

After several years as BBC TV News sports correspondent, Rob Bonnet spent between 1995-2005 as the main sports presenter on BBC Breakfast and occasionally presented the programme itself. He now presents the BBC World/BBC News 24 programme "Extra Time".

 

 

Guy Booth qualified as an architect in 1977. A gifted designer with highly original ideas, he takes a keen interest in the history of architecture and related design disciplines from fashion to technology.

 

 A regular co-host on radio and TV, Rosie appears on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week, Question Time, Any Questions, The Late Review and various other talk shows and arts programmes. Rosie makes regular appearances on news programmes and current affairs. She was the subject of a one-off documentary on her editorship of The Independent.

Fiona Bruce is one of the country’s top journalists and presenters. She anchors the BBC’s flagship Ten O’Clock News and has co-hosted Crimewatch for the BBC for eight years. She has been announced as the new presenter of the Antiques Roadshow, the BBC’s top rated factual programme that has been running for thirty years.

 

Michael Brunson recently retired as ITN's Political Editor, a position which he held since 1986.  As ITN's Political Editor, he reported on every recent political event in Britain. In June 1991 Michael Brunson's interview with Margaret Thatcher made headlines when she revealed to him her wish to take her seat in the House of Lords, and told him of her thoughts as her time as Prime Minister drew to a close. Brunson again interviewed Mrs Thatcher at length in November 1991, exactly a year after her dramatic resignation, in which she made known her views on European economic and monetary union.

 

Tania is a professional presenter with a wealth of experience behind her.

Tania rose to fame through her weekly round up of media entertainment from around the world on the highly popular Good Morning with Anne and Nick on BBC1. She went on to front The Entertainment Show and then host Showbiz Weekly with Tania Bryer which was broadcast on Sky News and Sky One for seven years.

 

 

Stefan's radio credits include: twelve years of Gardeners' Question Time on Radio 4, The Gardening Quiz on Radio 4 which he devised, wrote and presented, and Classic Gardening Forum on Classic FM. He has appeared as contributor or presenter on many television shows including: Stefan's Garden Road Show for BBC2, Open House for Channel 5, Stefan Buczacki's Gardening Britain for BBC2, Good Morning with Anne and Nick for BBC1, BBC's coverage of The Chelsea Flower Show, BBC2's Gardeners' World, Bazaar for BBC1, That's Gardening (TVS) and Gardeners' Direct Line (BBC1).

 

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.

 

Paul Burden has a unique experience of the problems of coporate communication. After a long career with the BBC, culminating in a ten year stint as presenter of the BBC 1 Business Breakfast show, he became Director of Communications at the John Lewis Partnership. He thus has a perspective from both sides of the media divide.

 

 

Rachel Burden can be heard presenting Weekend Breakfast on Radio 5 Live every Saturday and Sunday morning.

 

Jonathan Charles has spent the past few years going in and out of some of the most dangerous places on earth. Iraq, Afghanistan and Chechnya are just a few of the wars and conflicts that he covered during his two decades as a BBC television and radio foreign correspondent. Jonathan now reads the news, as a freelance presenter, on BBC1, BBC World News and the BBC News Channel.

After 5 years on our screens, and having built up quite a following with Sky and Channel 4 viewers, ITV offered Zo a place on the ITV schedule with ‘This Morning Puzzle Book’, a participation continuation of ITV 1’s flagship daytime show ‘This Morning’. Zo’s broad appeal across the generations has seen her go from strength to strength, and you can now see her on ITV 1’s ‘Make Your Play’.

 

Benjamin Cohen is well known both as an entrepreneur and as a television journalist.

He has been both the youngest ever director of a public company and the youngest correspondent on a network news programme. He regularly speaks on his experiences in the dot.com boom, privacy, e-commerce, new media and diversity.

 

 

Professor Margaret Cox is an internationally experienced forensic archaeologist / anthropologist who has worked in such places as Rwanda, Kosovo, Cyprus, Italy, Belgium and France. She is currently Professor of Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology at Cranfield University and Chief Executive of the Inforce Foundation.

 

 Theatre: Count Fosco in Andrew Lloyd Webbers musical The Woman In White at the Palace Theatre, London. The Phantom in the original productions of The Phantom of the Opera in London, on Broadway and in Los Angeles. Other stage credits in London and Broadway include Billy; Flowers for Algernon; Black Comedy; Dance of the Vampires; Barnum.

 

Ellie Crisell is key presenting talent at the BBC. She is a journalist and the presenter of Newsround on BBC1. She has been anchoring the programme since April 2003 and also reports on location. Ellie is also a regular presenter on BBC News 24 and is one of the presenters of the new BBC1 8pm bulletin. She has also presented for BBC London and has appeared as a reporter and pundit on children's issues on Newsnight, BBC Breakfast and the One O'clock news. Ellie previously worked for ITN, presenting radio and television news.

 

Barbara Currie is the UK's foremost yoga expert and is the leader in sales of health and fitness videos including The Total Body Plan and Barbara Currie's Seven Secret's of Yoga. With over 30 years experience in health, she has appeared on television shows as diverse as Magpie, The James Whale Show and on GMTV teaching yoga and fitness. Barbara's Cellulite Beater became an overnight bestseller when Barbara first brought it to an audience on GMTV.

 

Geoff Cutmore presents CNBC Europe's award winning Squawkbox programme. He has spent the last decade covering business stories from CNBC's operations in London and Hong Kong.

 

 

An experienced broadcaster, Saul David often appears on British radio and television. His presenting credits include the Escape From… series for Channel Five (2004), Sky One’s genealogy series So You Think You’re Royal? (2007) and The Greatest Knight for BBC2 (2008).

 

 

Daljit Dhaliwal is currently the anchor of Foreign Exchange, a weekly international news discussion program on American Public TV based in Washington D.C.. She has been broadcasting for 15 years and is a familiar face to viewers across the world, the U.S.A. & the U.K. She has worked as an anchor for CNN International in Atlanta, presenting Your World Today, a 2-hour live news and interview show and reported and hosted other CNN shows as a reporter and host as well as for BBC World.

 

Navdip Dhariwal is a well known and senior journalist in BBC news. She has just returned from a foreign correspondent posting in Delhi as the BBC's South Asia correspondent working in Afghanistan, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka covering the region for BBC World TV and Radio.

 

Sarah is a well established journalist and presenter with extensive experience of live television and radio. She currently presents BBC Wales’ flagship news programme Good Morning Wales covering all aspects of international and national news and interviewing guests from Prime Ministers to snake charmers. Sarah also presented the weekly business programme Wales@Work for five years and won three Work World media awards from the Work Foundation.

 

 

 

Carl Dinnen is a reporter and presenter on Channel 4 News, Channel Four News at Noon and More4 News.

 

Virginia spent fifteen years as a Business Journalist with the BBC. She has been a regular face on BBC News, most recently on BBC2’s Working Lunch for five years. In 2003 she won the Workplace Media Award for “Programme of the Year” for the Money Programme.

 

 

Mark Easton is the BBC’s Home Editor, an award winning documentary-maker and news correspondent. He appears regularly on BBC television and radio as well as writing for BBC Online and many newspapers and magazines.

 

Gwenan is a trained journalist and has worked with BBC Television News for over 10 years as presenter/reporter.

 

Maya Even presented  "The Money Programme", the BBC's financial and business flagship programme for two years.  Prior to this she worked for Channel Four and ITN as the presenter of "House to House", the daily parliament and politics programme.

 

Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor at Harvard Business School. He is a resident faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

 

 

 

Elizabeth Filippouli has a wide broadcast and print media experience. She is now based in London and works for the global TV network Al Jazeera International as a Program Presenter and Current Affairs Correspondent. She has presented flagship programs like “People & Power” and “Witness” and she also produces independent documentaries.

 

Britain’s (and possibly the World’s!) longest-serving TV weather forecaster, Michael Fish became famous for his so called 'hurricane gaff' in 1987. Now retired from the Met Office he spends his time as a regular weather presenter on BBC SouthEast, as well as giving after dinner speeches and lectures on Climate Change. He is the co-author of 'Storm Force' about Britain's wildest weather.

 

David FitzGerald has been in the media for over twenty-six years, covering television programme production, corporate and commercial presentations plus script writing, music, commercial voice overs and an after-dinner speaker (with a strong line in comedy). He is also a features writer for the Northcliffe Newspaper Group and has a regular programme on BBC Radio Devon.

 

LA based Hollywood Showbusiness correspondent. Regular contributor to BBC/ITV/Channel 4 documentaries. Presenter of series of documentaries for HTV.

 

Sandy Gall's career with ITN spanned nearly 30 years, from 1963 to 1992. He was part of the original team of News at Ten- the first half-hour television news in Britain launched in 1967 and now ITN's flagship programme- and became one of its senior newscasters.

 

 

Jane Garvey is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.

 

Rod Gilchrist is one of Fleet Street's most experienced professionals. Until recently he was the Deputy Editor of the Mail on Sunday, and formerly the Daily Mail's American correspondent in New York.

 

Margaret Gilmore is a familiar and authoritative face on our TV screens, highly respected for her writing and broadcasting talents, her specialist knowledge and analytical skills, her wide range of contacts and her appeal to the audience. Her career in television, radio and newspapers has been a distinguished one, including most recently six years as senior Home Affairs Correspondent for BBC News. She is also an Associate Fellow with the lead security think tank RUSI where she frequently writes and lectures.

 

Arts Correspondent, Channel 4 News.
Nicholas Glass is arts correspondent of Channel 4 News and has been a television reporter for over twenty years. The Royal Television Society made him 'Specialist Correspondent of the Year' in 2000. He covers all things cultural - film, literature, contemporary art, photography, architecture, archaeology - and tries to do so in a witty and inimitable manner.

 

Adrian Goldberg is currently presenting the overnight show on TalkSport from 1am to 6am, from Tuesday to Friday.

Former BBC1 Watchdog and Politics Show presenter Adrian Goldberg has made his name as an independent film-maker, following the release of his controversial investigative documentary Manchester Disunited And Other Football Feuds.

 

Nutritionist, author and broadcaster. Suzi Grant is a qualified practitioner and member of the British Association of Nutritional Therapists. She runs thriving practices in London and in the South East, where she lives. As well as running workshops and giving lectures she also writes for a wide range of national magazines and newspapers and broadcasts regularly on LBC, Southern FM and other TV and radio stations.

 

Baroness Susan Greenfield is a research scientist, an entrepreneur, a communicator of science and policy adviser. She is both Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and Professor of Pharmacology at Oxford University, where she heads a multi-disciplinary research group.

 

Liam Halligan is Chief Economist at Prosperity Capital Management - one of the world's leading asset-management firms, with investments worth more than $5bn across Russia and the Former Soviet Union.

Along with his role at PCM, Liam is also one of the UK's leading economics commentators. For the last six years he has written the highly-influential Economics Agenda column for the Sunday Telegraph - which was recently recognised with a coveted British Press Award.

Jacqui Hames is one of Britain’s best-known real life Detectives, having presented live TV appeals on the BBC flagship show Crimewatch every month for 16 yrs. After serving with the Metropolitan Police for over 25 yrs she is now seen regularly on GMTV and Sky News giving advice and commenting on news stories.

 

Tim Harford is an economist, award-winning journalist and speaker, TV and radio personality, and bestselling author. His books, “The Undercover Economist” (2005) and “The Logic of Life” (2008) have been translated into 30 languages and have sold nearly one million copies worldwide.

 

 

Jane is a trained broadcast journalist and presenter. She’s enjoyed a varied career, working for both ITV and BBC, specialising in news and current affairs and factual entertainment. Jane works in Radio and Television and particularly relishes the challenge of live broadcasting.

 

Sharon Hendry is The Sun’s Senior Feature Writer responsible for general features and investigations across the paper.  

 

Nina is a presenter with ITV News, working across their network news programmes including the ITV Evening News.

Born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, Nina studied English Language and Linguistics at Durham University, before gaining a Post-graduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston.

 

Emma Howard is a former BBC News presenter and reporter on both television and radio. As a news correspondent she worked for the One, Six and Ten O'clock News as well as Radio 4 and 5Live - and as a presenter she fronted Breakfast on BBC 1 and later presented on News 24 and Drive Time on 5Live.

 

 

Bettany Hughes is a rare talent in the broadcasting world. Following a scholarship to Oxford to read Ancient and Modern History she has combined acdemic research with her campaigning work and investigations around the world: producing ground-breaking films and radio series.

 

Virginia Ironside is well-known as an agony aunt and author. She has worked, over the past forty years, at the Daily Mail, the Sunday Telegraph, Woman magazine, Today, the Sunday Mirror and the Sunday Post. For the last ten years she has written a weekly column, 'Dilemmas', for The Independent, and also has a column on The Oldie called Grannie Annexe, and a monthly column on Candis magazine. These days she writes books and contributes regularly to various papers and magazines. She has contributed to nearly every mainstream publication in England in the course of her career.

 

 

Judi is a leading tv expert in body language, relationships, social behaviour and workplace culture and has had her own 4-part body language series on called Naked Celebrity, which she researched and presented.

Patrick Jephson was born and raised in Ireland. He has a Masters Degree in Political Science from Cambridge University. After ten years as an officer in the Royal Navy he was selected to join the Royal Household, serving for eight years as Equerry and as the first and only Private Secretary (Chief of Staff) to Diana, Princess of Wales. He was appointed Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) for personal service to the Sovereign.

Akhtar is an anchor and presenter for TV shows (news, features and entertainment), awards ceremonies, live events, conferences, corporate events, public speaker at travel/non-travel related events (World Travel Awards, British Film and Television Academy (BAFTA), Asia Luxury Travel Market, The Princes Trust (Ambassador)

 

Allan has worked in radio and television news for more than twenty five years and has been a presenter with Sky News for the last ten.  He was on-air at the time of the death of the Queen Mother, and received praise in several newspapers for his sensitive handling of this sad event.  He also covered the fire at Buckingham Palace during the Queen's Golden Jubilee.  Among his many on-air discussions with political and business leaders, Allan obtained the first television interview with Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams the day after the London Docklands bombing broke the IRA cease-fire in 1996.

 

James is the voice of film on Radio One, reviewing the latest movies with Edith Bowman every Wednesday and Friday at 2.30pm. He's also presented the Early Breakfast show, Bank Holiday soundtrack specials and several all-night Oscar programmes. His work on Radio One was nominated for a prestigious Sony Award in 2004.

Kirsty is the presenter of The World, an international current affairs programme broadcast globally on BBC World and on BBC4 in the UK. Kirsty is also a regular presenter on the Radio 4 arts magazine programme Front Row. She is also a former presenter of Channel 4 News.

 

Prof. Armand Leroi was the writer and presenter of Human Mutants, a major three-part documentary series about human deformity which was broadcast on Channel 4 in June 2004. He also wrote and presented a two part series What Makes Us Human which was transmitted on C4 in August 2006. In December 2004 his book, Mutants, was the winner of the Guardian First Book Award.

 

Martin Lewis, Money Saving Expert presents Martin Lewis’ It Pays To Watch on Five and ITV1’s Tonight money shows. He’s also GMTV’s in-house expert, as well as regular slots on Radio 1 & 2. In print he’s a columnist for the News of The World and author of three bestsellers. Yet he’s best known for his website MoneySavingExpert.com, now a national institution with over 4million monthly users.

 

Jane Little is a journalist and presenter who combines specialist reporting on religion with a wide brief as presenter. She regularly sits in the chair of Woman’s Hour, Sunday, Last Word, and The World Tonight on BBC Radio Four.

 

Sue MacGregor is one of BBC radio's most familiar voices; she has even been described (by The Times) as "Simply the best female presenter radio has produced".

 

Allan Mallinson has recently retired as a brigadier from the British Army, where he commanded one of its oldest cavalry regiments. He is the author of LIGHT DRAGOONS, a history of four regiments of British Cavalry, and a regular reviewer for The Times and The Spectator.

 

Award winning reporter Penny Marshall is the International Correspondent for ITV News.

 

 

Jacqui Marson is a psychologist and broadcaster with wide-ranging television and radio experience.

 

Anna Martin co-anchors the live evening show on CNBC Europe called Europe Tonight. The show takes stock of the day’s business stories across Europe from shock company announcements to the latest political events. Anna also delivers live reports for European, American and global audiences based on live stock market, foreign exchange market and commodity market moves.

 

Emma is currently working as a reporter and video journalist for BBC Look North in Leeds. She has also recently worked for BBC Local TV in Coventry and Warwickshire. As well as reporting for the pilot interactive news service, she also presented breakfast bulletins and the lunchtime news for Midlands Today.

 

James Max appeared in the first series of BBC's hit The Apprentice. He has demonstrated an aptitude for presenting, both on TV and radio as well as writing whilst still keeping his hand in business.

 

 

Tessa Mayes is an award-winning investigative journalist, commentator and author.

Justin and Colin first came to the public’s notice in BBC2's hugely successful series, Million Pound Property Experiment, which saw them buy, renovate and sell seven properties across Britain, ranging from £100,000 to £1.25 million. They have gone on to present How Not To Decorate, Three Celebs and a baby, Justin & Colin's Wedding Belles and Justin and Colin's Home Show. Their new show Justin and Colin's Home Heist is currently airing on HGTV in Canada and will be seen on UKTV from April.

 

 

Charlie is a confident, intelligent, focused and quick-witted presenter with a warm and engaging personality. Professional and highly experienced he has superb live studio, location filming and OB skills and is an accomplished interviewer who’s relaxed and friendly style enables him to get the best out of his guests.

 

Sir Trevor McDonald became the first sole Presenter of News At Ten in 1992 and anchored the Late Evening News until December 2005. He also presents ITV's flagship current affairs programme - Tonight.

 

Lawrence is the Science Editor for ITN. During his career he has won many awards including; 2 BAFTAs for Channel 4 News and Best News or Outside Broadcast and 2 RTS awards for the best sports news report for the coverage of the drugs scandal at the Barcelona Olympics and the Kings Cross Disaster.

 

Nick Middleton is a geographer, writer and presenter of television documentaries. He teaches at Oxford University where he is a Fellow of St Anne's College.

He is the author of seven travel books, including the 2001 bestseller, Going to Extremes (Pan) and its follow-ups Surviving Extremes (Pan, 2004) and Extremes along the Silk Road (J Murray, 2006).

 

Rosie Millard is a broadcaster and feature writer for The Sunday Times. She and her husband write a marriage column (Mr. and Mrs. Millard) for The Times' Body and Soul, and she also has a weekly column in The Independent's Saturday finance pages. She writes for the Daily Mail, the New Statesman, was the BBC's Arts Correspondent for 10 years and regularly appears on Radio 4 and BBC 1.  

 

Originally from Australia, Scott works for a veterinary hospital in East London whilst appearing as the resident vet on ITV1's This Morning for the last five years. Using his unique down-to-earth style and broad veterinary knowledge, Scott has become a household name in Britain as a leading TV vet and animal lover.

 

 

Louise Minchin is an experienced news and current affairs presenter. On BBC One she regularly presents The One O’Clock news, BBC Breakfast , and the BBC’s weekend Ten O’Clock News. She is one of the faces of BBC News 24.

 

Maria Misra teaches history at Oxford University. She recently wrote and presented the Channel 4 series An Indian Affair and is a regular contributor to the Saturday Review on Radio 4.

 

Robert is ITN's European Correspondent for ITV News and was previously their Washington Correspondent. He assumed the role at the start of 2002 after five years as ITN's Diplomatic & Foreign Affairs Editor. From 1991 to 1996 he was ITN's Middle East Correspondent and he won the "International News Prize" at the 1996 Royal Television Society Journalism Awards for his reporting that year of the fighting on the West Bank between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers.