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Ruth Madeley was born in Westhoughton, near Bolton, and studied English and creative writing at university. She always wanted to work in the entertainment industry and thought that her path lay in sc…

Dan Schreiber was born in Hong Kong, grew up in Sydney, and moved to England at the age of 19.

Once here, Dan was hired as a researcher on the BBC panel show QI. And it was a job that Dan was born to …

Liz was born in France, grew up in Ireland, and studied biochemistry and wildlife biology at university.

She has since travelled the world studying animal behaviour. And her documentaries include Drow…

Waad Al-Kateab is a BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated filmmaker. Born in Syria, Waad left home at 18, to study at the university of Aleppo. 

In 2011, she began shooting video on her phone, while atten…

Carol Morley is an acclaimed filmmaker, whose work includes short film, documentary and drama. 

She was born in Stockport, and spent her teens enjoying the Manchester music scene, before moving to Lon…

Classics professor Dame Mary Beard was a bright child, who was bumped up a year at school, went on archaelogical digs as a teen, and studied classics at Newnham College. After completing her PhD, Mar…

Ava Glass is the pen name of Christi Daugherty. She was born in Texas and worked as a crime reporter before moving to the UK.

A few years after settling in London, Christi was recruited to work in the…

In November 2019, Steve Gallant was serving a life sentence for murder when he confronted the terrorist Usman Khan.

Steve had been allowed out on day release, to attend a Learning Together event, near…

The British-Trinidadian artist Zak Ové was born into an artistic family. After studying at St. Martin’s School of Art, he worked as a photographer and as a director of television and music videos. 

At…

Sarah Sands grew up in Tunbridge Wells and cut her teeth on a local newspaper in Kent, before moving to the diary, on the Evening Standard.

She later edited the Standard but not before spending some t…

Michael Mansfield became a barrister in 1967 and, since then, he’s worked on some very high-profile cases in the UK. He has overturned miscarriages of justice, fought for civil liberties, and for cha…

Sir Chris Bryant was born in Cardiff, and lived in Spain as a child, before returning to the UK. After reading English at Oxford, he studied Theology and was ordained in the Church of England. 

He the…

Stephen Davis is an investigative journalist and author, who has worked around the world, on newspaper stories and documentaries.

He’s also a podcaster, whose most recent series investigates the sinki…

Professor Rose Anne Kenny is an expert in ageing who has over 35 years of clinical and research experience. She’s a Professor of Medical Gerontology at Trinity College, Dublin, and the Director of Me…

Jess McDonald was one of the first recruits on The Metropolitan Police’s Direct Entry Detective Scheme. Launched in 2017, to address a shortage of detectives, this scheme was not without its critics.…

The Nottingham-born comedian Matt Forde has been fascinated by politics ever since he was 9 years old. Raised by his mum, without much money, Matt experienced life: “at the sharp end of every politic…

Mick Lynch is the General Secretary of Britain's largest specialist transport trade union, the RMT.

In May 2022, the RMT announced that its members had voted overwhelmingly in favour of strikes, in a …

South Londoner Candice Carty-Williams has gone from publishing house marketing executive, to literary sensation - and now, she's taking on TV.

Queenie, her 2019 debut, was a best-seller. Critics and r…

The poet and writer Sir Ben Okri was born in Nigeria and spent some of his childhood in London, before moving with his family to Lagos, on the eve of the Nigerian Civil War. This experience had a def…

The voice of broadcaster and writer Anita Anand will be familiar to many. Her career began while she was still at university, in the newsroom of satellite channel Zee. Anita was then snapped up by Ra…