Profile
An insight into the character of an influential figure making news headlines
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 14 minutes
- Episodes
- 647
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
Iain Duncan Smith, Work and Pensions Secretary
Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Iain Duncan Smith whose Work and Pensions Department will be hit during next week's Spending Review. His proposed welfare reforms have been described as 'the biggest since …
Yvette Cooper, Shadow Foreign Secretary
For this week's BBC Radio 4 Profile, Mary Ann Sieghart focuses on Yvette Cooper, recently announced as the new Shadow Foreign Secretary.
Yvette Cooper became an MP in 1997 and became politically close…
Dilma Rousseff
Brazilians go to the polls this weekend, to elect a new president, replacing the charismatic Lula da Silva. And, with Dilma Rousseff far ahead in the polls, it looks like the country could get its fi…
Eric Daniels
Eric Daniels, CEO of Lloyds Banking Group, Britain's biggest retail bank, who announced this week that he will retire in 12 months with an estimated £13 million pay off package. He's the last survivo…
Danny Alexander, Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Jonathan Maitland profiles Danny Alexander, Chief Secretary to the Treasury in the coalition government and Liberal Democrat who will wield the axe as the UK enters a new age of austerity. Alexander …
John Yates
John Yates, the Assistant Commissioner at the centre of the storm about the Metropolitan Police's investigation into celebrity phone hacking at the News of the World, under the editorship of Andy Cou…
Pope Benedict XVI
Who is Pope Benedict XVI? Ahead of his visit to the UK in September, former BBC religious affairs correspondent Jane Little delves into his background to paint a portrait of a man many people know li…