- Peter Donaldson
Peter Donaldson is a main newsreader on BBC Radio 4. He was born in Cairo, Egypt on 23 August 1945 and moved to Cyprus in 1952 at the time of the overthrow of King Farouk. He was a frequent listener to the BBC World Service and the BFBS. He boarded at Woolverstone Hall in Suffolk from the age of 14. He left after taking O-levels at 16 and joined Sadler's-Wells London in a backstage role.
- John Humphrys
John Humphrys (born 17 August 1943) is a British radio and television presenter. He has been a presenter on BBC Radio 4's "Today" programme since 1987, and has worked as a correspondent and presenter for the "Nine O'Clock News". He is considered to be a tough interviewer and has occasionally attracted criticism for his abrasive style: for example, …
- Melanie Phillips
Melanie Phillips (born June 4 1951) is a British columnist and author. Her articles appear mainly in the "Daily Mail" newspaper and focus on political and social issues. She has previously written for "The Guardian" and other publications. Phillips is a regular panelist on the BBC Radio 4 programme, "The Moral Maze" and on BBC One's "Question Time".
- James Naughtie
James ("Jim") Naughtie (born 9 August 1952) is a BBC journalist and radio news presenter. Since 1994 he has been one of the main regular presenters of Radio 4's "Today" programme.
- Eddie Mair
Eddie Mair (born November 12 1965) is a British BBC radio and television presenter. He presents BBC Radio 4's daily news magazine "PM" and the BBC's "NewsPod", is an occasional presenter of "Newsnight", the stand-in presenter for "Any Questions" replacing the late Nick Clarke, and was the original host of the BBC Two programme "Time Commanders". Eddie Mair was born in Dundee, Scotland.
- Jeremy Vine
Jeremy Vine (born May 17, 1965, Epsom, Surrey) is an English current affairs presenter on BBC radio and television.
- Marcus Brigstocke
Marcus Brigstocke (born 8 May 1973) is an English comedian and satirist who has worked extensively in stand-up comedy, television and radio. He is particularly associated with the 6.30pm comedy slot on BBC Radio 4, having frequently appeared on several of its shows.
- Libby Purves
Libby Purves OBE(born February 2 1950 in London, England) is a radio presenter, journalist and author. A diplomat's daughter, she was educated at convent schools in Bangkok (Thailand), South Africa and France, and then Beechwood Sacred Heart School in Tunbridge Wells. Purves won a scholarship to St Anne's College, Oxford where she obtained a first-class honours degree and rose to the rank of Librarian (Vice President) of the Oxford Union.
- Barry Took
Barry Took (June 19, 1928 - March 31, 2002) was an English comedian, writer and television presenter. He is best remembered in the UK for his weekly role as presenter of "Points of View", a BBC TV programme in which viewers' letters criticising or praising the BBC were broadcast. He also presented the BBC Radio 4 programme "The News Quiz" for over a decade until 1995. Took was born in Muswell Hill, North London and brought up there during the war, …
- Paul Merton
Paul Martin (born 9 July 1957) is an English actor, BAFTA award-winning comedian and writer. He is more commonly known by the stage name Paul Merton, and is best known as a panellist on the BBC television show "Have I Got News for You" and Radio 4's "Just a Minute", as well as Channel 4's "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" in the first five series, and as the host of the BBC TV show "Room 101".
- Laura Solon
Laura Solon (born August 1979) is an English comedian, writer and winner of the 2005 Perrier Comedy Award, only the second woman to win as a solo performer (the first being Jenny Eclair in 1995). She was born in London and raised in Little Kimble near Aylesbury. Solon started writing and performing as a student in the Oxford Revue at Oxford University where she studied English. She had tried her hand at being a stand up comedian but found character comedy suited her better.
- Mark Mardell
Mark Mardell (born 10 September 1957) is the Europe Editor for BBC News. He has provided coverage for each United Kingdom general election since 1992. Mardell was educated at Epsom College in Surrey, England, and studied politics at the University of Kent. He began his career reporting and reading the news for the commercial station Radio Tees. He then worked at Radio Aire in Leeds before moving to Independent Radio News in London, …
- Ben Moor
Benedict Moor is a writer and actor based in London. He was born on 8th February 1969 in Wimbledon and grew up in Whitstable. He studied History at University College, Oxford and while there he performed in The Oxford Revue with Richard Herring, Al Murray and others, graduating in 1990. Moving to London, Moor wrote sketches for "Week Ending" and "Spitting Image" and developed his own work.
- John Mortimer
Sir John Clifford Mortimer CBE QC (born 21 April 1923) is an English barrister turned prolific writer and dramatist. Educated at Harrow School and Brasenose College, Oxford, his oeuvre includes over fifty books, plays, and scripts. The play, "A Voyage Round My Father" (1971) is autobiographical, recounting his experiences as a young barrister and his relationship with his blind father.
- Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee is a British writer and historian, best-known for writing the radio series "This Sceptred Isle" for the BBC. Lee was the first Quatercentenary Fellow in Contemporary History at Emmanuel College Cambridge and Gomes Lecturer. He is now researching the history of ideas at the University of London. Lee is the originator and writer of the BBC Radio 4 trilogy "This Sceptred Isle", from the Romans to the death of Queen Victoria, …
- Rod Liddle
Rod Liddle (born 1960) is a British journalist best known for his term as editor of BBC Radio 4's "Today" programme. Liddle was born in South London but brought up in Nunthorpe, Yorkshire. He was educated at Laurence Jackson comprehensive school in Guisborough (also Yorkshire), and while there formed a punk band called "Dangerbird" with some friends. He attended the London School of Economics.
- Peter Jones
Peter Jones was an English actor, playwright and broadcaster. He was best known as the voice of The Book in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", for his lead role in the TV sitcom "The Rag Trade", and for his elegant repartee on the BBC Radio 4 programme "Just a Minute" (where he excelled at the amusing one liners, but seldom scored many points).
- Andrew Gilligan
Andrew Paul Gilligan (born 22 November, 1968, Teddington, London, England) is a journalist best known for his 2003 report about a British government briefing paper on Iraq and weapons of mass destruction (the September Dossier) while working for BBC Radio 4's "The Today Programme" as its defence and diplomatic correspondent.
- Mariella Frostrup
Mariella Frostrup (born 12 November, 1962 in Oslo, Norway) is a journalist and television presenter, well known on British TV and radio for her mildly throaty voice, once voted the sexiest female voice on TV celebrities. Her voice is often used on TV commercials. Frostrup moved with her family as a child to Kilmacanogue, a small village outside Dublin. Her Norwegian father was a journalist, and her Scottish-born mother an artist.
- Prunella Scales
Prunella Scales CBE (born 22 June 1932) is an English actress best known for her role as the fearsome Sybil Fawlty in the British sitcom "Fawlty Towers". Born Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth in Sutton Abinger, Surrey, she has had a long and distinguished career as an actress mostly in comic roles. Her early film roles included "Pride and Prejudice" and "Hobson's Choice". Her first career break came with the early 1960s sitcom, …
- Nigel Wrench
Nigel Wrench (born 1960) is an English radio presenter, mainly for BBC Radio 4 Born in Birmingham, Wrench grew up in South Africa, where he began his journalistic career reporting on the anti-apartheid protests of the 1980s. He joined the BBC as a reporter, and was at the prison gates when Nelson Mandela walked free. Wrench then became a roving reporter for the BBC, from locations including Jerusalem, St Petersburg and Bucharest.
- Joan Bakewell
Joan Bakewell CBE (born April 16 1933, Stockport, Cheshire) is an English journalist and television presenter. Born Joan Dawson Rowlands, she was educated at Stockport Convent High School For Girls, where she was head girl and Newnham College, University of Cambridge, where she first came into contact with another future journalist, Brian Redhead, and her first husband, Michael Bakewell. Later, she was married to the director Jack Emery, …
- Steve Punt
Steve Punt (born 1962) is a British writer, comedian and actor, most famous for his long-time partnership with Hugh Dennis. He was educated at Whitgift School, an independent school for boys in Croydon, Surrey, and met Dennis while at Cambridge University. Punt was a student of St. Catharine's College. They became resident guest comedians on shows presented by Jasper Carrott, including "Carrott Confidential" and "Canned Carrott", …
- Sarah Montague
Sarah Montague (born February 8, 1966) is a British journalist best known for her work on BBC Radio 4 as a Political Correspondent and for being a presenter of the "Today" Programme. Montague was born in Guernsey and attended Blanchelande Girls College, a girls' independent school in St Andrew's, Guernsey, and studied Biology at the University of Bristol. Her first job was as a stockbroker for County NatWest and Eurobond dealer with NatWest Capital Markets in London.
- Jenni Murray
Jenni Murray OBE (born Jennifer Susan Bailey on 12 May 1950 in Barnsley, Yorkshire) is a British journalist and broadcaster. She has a degree in French and Drama from Hull University. Early in her career she worked for BBC Radio Bristol and the local news programme "South Today" and was a presenter of "Newsnight" for two years from 1983. She is currently best known as a presenter on BBC Radio 4's "Woman's Hour", …
- Martin Jarvis
Martin Jarvis OBE (born August 4, 1941 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England) is an English actor. He attended the Whitgift School, Croydon and RADA. He has made many recordings of audio books, most famously those of Just William. He is married to Rosalind Ayres and they have two children.
- Martha Kearney
Martha Catherine Kearney (born October 8 1957) is a British broadcaster and journalist. Kearney was raised in an academic environment in Sussex and Edinburgh; her father, the historian Hugh Kearney, taught at the universities there. She was educated at Brighton and Hove High School, a girls' independent school in Brighton, and at George Watson's College, a co-educational independent school in Edinburgh. She later read Classics at St Anne's College, Oxford (1976-80).
- Russell Davies
Russell Davies was born in Barmouth, North Wales and currently presents a Sunday radio programme on BBC Radio 2 which spotlights popular song. He was awarded a first class degree at St John's College, Cambridge but soon abandoned his post-graduate studies in German literature when the opportunity arose to tour with the Cambridge Footlights revue. As a journalist, Davies worked as a film and television critic for "The Observer" and "The Sunday Times", …
- Charlotte Green
Charlotte Green (born 1958) is a British radio announcer and news reader for the BBC's Radio 4. The main programmes that she is involved in are the "Today" programme, "PM" and the "Shipping Forecast". She regularly reads the amusing newspaper cuttings on "The News Quiz", and her voice is regularly imitated by Jan Ravens on the radio version of the BBC comedy sketch show "Dead Ringers", enunciating phrases, laced with doubles entendres, …
- Francine Stock
Francine Stock (born March 14, 1958) is a British radio and TV presenter and novelist, of part-French origin. Stock attended St Catherine's School, Guildford where she was head girl and is a graduate of Jesus College, Oxford, with a degree in Modern Languages (French and Italian). After working in specialist journalism on the oil industry, she joined the BBC in 1983. At first she reported on financial news and worked as a radio producer, …
- Phill Jupitus
Phill Jupitus (born 25th June 1962) is an English comedian and broadcaster. He is a regular on television and radio panel shows, including BBC Radio 4's "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" and BBC Two/BBC Four's "QI", and is a team captain on BBC Two's "Never Mind The Buzzcocks". He was also a team captain on the BBC's television comedy panel show "It's Only TV But I Like It" in 1999.
- Edward Stourton
Edward John Ivo Stourton (born November 24 1957, Lagos, Nigeria) is a BBC presenter of the morning flagship "Today" programme on BBC Radio 4. He is a former president of the Cambridge Union Society. Stourton was at school at Ampleforth College, then went on to study English Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge. He started at ITN in 1979 as a graduate trainee.
- Nick Clarke
Nicholas Campbell Clarke, was an English radio and television presenter and journalist, primarily known for his work on BBC Radio 4. Clarke was born in 1948 in Godalming, Surrey, and educated at Westbourne House School, West Sussex, Bradfield College, Berkshire and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Clarke began his career in newspapers on the "Yorkshire Evening Post", before joining the BBC in 1973 as Northern Industrial Correspondent.
- Charles Wheeler
Sir Charles Cornelius Wheeler CMG (born Selwyn Charles Cornelius-Wheeler on March 26 1923) is a veteran British journalist and broadcaster. Having joined the BBC in 1947, he is currently their longest serving foreign correspondent. Wheeler's long career has involved postings to Berlin, Delhi and Washington. In the later years of his career he was the American correspondent of "Newsnight".
- Andrew Collins
Andrew John Collins (born March 4 1965, Northampton) is an English journalist, scriptwriter and broadcaster. After studying graphic design at Chelsea School of Art, Collins started writing for "New Musical Express" in the early 1990s, subsequently taking up editorship of "Q". He also formed a double-act with fellow music journalist Stuart Maconie, presenting the Sony Award-winning BBC Radio 1 show "Collins & Maconie's Hit Parade", …
- Linda Smith
Linda Smith (29 January 1958-27 February 2006) was a British stand-up comic and comedy writer. She was born in Erith, south-east London, but had no particular fondness for her home town, once joking, "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham".
- Robin Lustig
Robin Francis Lustig (born 30 August 1948) is a BBC journalist and radio broadcaster who currently presents programmes for the BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4. After studying politics at the University of Sussex, Lustig became a foreign correspondent for the European news agency Reuters and was based in the Spanish capital, Madrid, later moving to Paris and Rome. He then worked for the British broadsheet Sunday paper The Observer for twelve years, …
- Ned Sherrin
Ned Sherrin (born 18 February 1931 in Somerset, England) is a broadcaster, author and stage director. He attended Sexey's School, in Bruton, Somerset. Although he read law at Exeter College, Oxford and subsequently qualified as a barrister, he became involved in theatre at Oxford and joined British television at the founding of independent television in 1956, producing shows for ATV in Birmingham.
- Milton Jones
Milton Jones (born 1964) is an English comedian, who won a Perrier newcomer award in 1996. His jokes are mostly based around puns and one-liners. He has had various shows on BBC Radio Four over the last ten years. Jones was born and grew up in Kew, London and his father is from south Wales. He is married with three children and lives in Richmond, London.
- Mitch Benn
Mitch Benn (born Mitchell John Benn 20 January 1970) is a British musician of Liverpudlian/Scottish descent and stand-up comedian known for his satirical songs performed on BBC radio. Mitch Benn was born in Liverpool, England. He was educated at the Dovedale County Primary School (the same primary school John Lennon and George Harrison attended), the Liverpool Blue Coat School and the University of Edinburgh, …