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.

 

 

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. 

 

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.

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

 

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.

 

 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.

 

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.

 

 

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

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’.

 

 

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.

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

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.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

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.

 

 

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.

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.

 

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".

 

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.

 

 

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

 

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.  

 

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.

 

Television and radio presenter Juliet Morris is a well-known face in the world of broadcasting. Juliet left Newsround in 1995 to present BBC Breakfast News for three years and has since fronted a wide range of factual and current affairs programmes for the BBC including House Detectives, The Travel Show and The Heaven and Earth Show. She's currently presenting BBC's Countryfile.

 

 

 

Nina is a News Correspondent for ITV News, covering all the arts and media stories - she covers the Oscars in LA and the Golden Globes, has interviewed all the major screen stars with exclusives including Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, and Jude Law.

 

Bridgid is one of the most recognisable faces of Channel 4 News.  As well as regularly co-presenting, she is currently the Money Reporter, covering all areas of personal finance, consumer news, business and economics for Channel 4 News at Noon.

 

 

Susan is a highly experienced television and radio presenter, having a comprehensive background in news, current affairs, consumer journalism and business.

Libby Potter is an experienced reporter with 10 years work on television and radio. She currently presents BBC Two’s The Money Programme.

 

Angela Rippon has been a familiar face and voice in British broadcasting for over 40 years. The career of this award winning journalist has embraced an impressive variety of programmes on both radio and television for both Commercial and BBC stations in Britain, America and Australia.

 

Hallie Rubenhold is an author and social historian whose expertise lies in the early modern period (17th, 18th and 19th centuries). Her book, The Covent Garden Ladies was filmed as a documentary, The Harlot's Handbook, and presented by Hallie for the BBC as part of the highly successful, The Century that Made Us season. She has since appeared as an expert contributor on numerous documentaries and has acted as historical consultant for period dramas, including Channel 4's The Harlot's Progress and the forthcoming five-part series, City of Vice.

 

 

Fiona Scott is one of the most talented artists of her generation. Her work has been exhibited in some of the most prestigious Art Galleries in the country. She studied for 4 years in Scotland under the celebrated Alberto Morocco, before graduating with an honours degree in Fine Art. Fiona now works on commissions from her studio in the pretty North Yorkshire village of Ampleforth. She specializes in portraiture.

Selina has anchored flagship current affairs shows in both the UK and the USA. ITN first headhunted her in 1981 for its prestigious News At Ten. She then became the first woman to launch Breakfast Television in the UK, fronting the BBC’s Breakfast Time in 1983. Selina went on to break new ground with the UK’s first fashion magazine programme The Clothes Show, also for the BBC.

 

 

Barbara Serra is one of the launch faces of Al Jazeera's new English-language, International news channel. She will present the news from its London broadcast centre, and report from all over Europe.

 

Mary Ann Sieghart is currently researching and writing a book about contemporary Britain, focusing on the big changes and social trends of the past ten years.

 

 

Dani Sinha has recently joined the presentation team at BBC London. She has built a strong fan base through her work at BBC South which she joined in March 2006.

 

Catrina's television career took off in the early 90's with This Morning for ITV and Good Morning With Anne and Nick, for BBC 1, where Catrina interviewed the famed and fortuned from across the globe. In 1998, Catrina had her own series on NBC Super Channel V.I.P - a nightly show where she conducted interviews with a wide range of personalities including historians, authors, scientists, entrepreneurs and politicians. Catrina then co-presented BBC 1's Heaven and Earth Show for 2 series. Fluent in several languages and mother of three, Catrina is a keen sports enthusiast and Arts lover.

 

Sarah Smith is Wahington Correspondent for Channel 4 Sarah joined Channel 4 News as Scotland correspondent in 1998, reporting on the first elections to the new Scottish parliament. Over the last few years Sarah has regularly presented Channel 4 News and covered stories ranging from the US presidential elections, the Madrid train bombings (for which Channel 4 News won an international Emmy in 2004), to the resignation of Ian Duncan Smith and an exclusive interview with Saddam Hussein's defence lawyer.

 

Allyson Stewart-Allen is an internationally renowned business expert in the fields of international marketing and working across cultures. A Californian based in the UK for over 20 years, she runs a thriving business from her offices in Los Angeles and London, where she lives and gets to apply her fluency in French and German.

 

Astrologer Shelley von Strunckel is recognised and respected worldwide and is regarded as the voice of reason in an often confusing field.

 

During a long and distinguished career in BBC Television News she has presented every type of bulletin including News After Noon, the early evening 5.40 News, News Review, The Nine O'Clock News, The Weekend News, The Six O'Clock News, and most recently the news bulletins on Sunday AM, The Politics Show and other weekend bulletins.

 

Tamzin is a presenter and correspondent with ITV's London Tonight. She took up the post of Entertainment Correspondent in 2004 and now hosts the programme twice a week, alongside Alastair Stewart.

 

Part of BBC World’s core business output for the last four years, Manisha Tank has gained worldwide acclaim for her breadth of knowledge, sharp questioning and her ability to bring highly complex subjects to ground level. After four years in London, Manisha is now based in New York, where she has taken up the helm at the US end of the show.

 

 

Isla Traquair is a reporter and presenter for Channel 5 News.

Sandrine Voillet, presenter of the BBC2 series ‘Paris’ is an art historian who has worked in a number of museums and art galleries. She was educated at the Ecole du Louvre where she specialized in the history of art from the Far East.

 

 

Celia is an experienced national newspaper journalist. She currently edits The Daily Telegraph's Diary, "Spy", having spent the previous two years as a features writer and celebrity interviewer on The Mail on Sunday's 'Night and Day' Magazine.

 

 

As a trained television journalist she can turn her hand to most topics. Daisy took a postgraduate in Television and Current Affairs Journalism at City University and is therefore adept at script writing and quickly simplifying complicated issues into everyday language. She has a strong understanding and appreciation of media law and ethical practices within journalism.

 

 

Noni Ware knows the fashion business inside out. She gained her experience in the fashion industry at Conde Nast and Elle magazine before becoming retail editor at Harpers Bazaar.

She has a huge client base as a personal stylist and life coach – it includes people from all walks of life including many celebrities.

 

 

Romilly Weeks is currently Royal Correspondent for ITV News.

Dr Kate Williams is an author and historian, specialising in the 17th, 18th, 19th centuries. She speaks regularly on Radio 4 and has consulted and appeared on historical programmes for BBC and Channel 4.

 

 

Joanna Yarrow is one of Britain's leading experts in green living, and specialises in helping people understand environmental principles and put them into practice.