- Michael Palin
Michael Edward Palin, CBE (born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries.
- Jeremy Clarkson
Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born 11 April 1960) is an English broadcaster and writer who specialises in motoring. He writes weekly columns for "The Sunday Times" and "The Sun", but is better known for his role on the BBC TV show "Top Gear". The show won an International Emmy in 2005. "Not a man given to considered opinion", according to the BBC, Clarkson is known to be opinionated and forthright in his views.
- Alan Titchmarsh
Alan Titchmarsh, MBE (born 2 May 1949) is a famous English broadcaster, particularly in the field of gardening programmes on UK television, although Titchmarsh has also had lengthy stints presenting daytime and religious programming on BBC TV and BBC Radio 2.
- Andrew Davies
Andrew Wynford Davies (born September 20, 1936 in Rhiwbina, Cardiff, Wales) is a British screenwriter. He is the creator of the children's "Marmalade Atkins" television series and "A Very Peculiar Practice", and is also well known for his adaptations of classic works of literature, including the 1995 television adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice" starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle and the 1998 adaptation of "Vanity Fair".
- David Dimbleby
David Dimbleby CBE (born October 28, 1938) is a long standing BBC TV commentator, a presenter of current affairs and political programmes, and more recently, art and architectural history series.
- John Lloyd
John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd (born September 30 1951) is a British comedy writer and television producer.
- Jana Bennett
Jana Bennett OBE is Head of Vision at the BBC. She took up the post in 2006, having previously been Director of Television since April 2002. Previously she had been Executive Vice President and General Manager at Discovery Communications in the USA. Born in Cooperstown, New York State, Bennett moved to Britain in 1969, and first joined the BBC in 1979. She worked on various news and current affairs programmes before becoming editor of "Horizon" in 1990.
- Paul Davies
Paul Andrew "Ocker" Davies is an English association football player, He first played professional football for Cardiff City before joining Trowbridge Town F.C. and Dutch club S.C. Hercules (Enschede) before signing for his home town side Kidderminster Harriers F.C. for £1,500 in 1983. A centre forward, Davies remained a free-scoring stalwart in various Harriers teams under long-serving Harriers' manager Graham Allner throughout the eighties and into the nineties, …
- David Hall
David Hall (born in 1937) is a significant British video artist. He began as a sculptor exhibiting internationally, winning 1st prize at the Paris Biennale in 1965. In 1966 he was represented in the seminal minimal art show, Primary Structures, at the Jewish Museum, New York. In 1967 he began working with photography and film and in 1969-70 video (the technology then becoming available outside the broadcast industry).
- Martin O'Neill
Martin Hugh Michael O'Neill, OBE, (born March 1 1952 in Kilrea, Northern Ireland) is a former Northern Ireland national football team captain who has previously managed Wycombe Wanderers, Norwich City, Leicester City and Celtic and is currently manager of Aston Villa.
- Elaine Paige
Elaine Paige née Bickerstaff OBE (born on 5 March, 1948 in Barnet, Hertfordshire) is an English singer and actress, primarily in musicals.
- Joanne Whalley
Joanne Whalley (born) is a British actress. Born in Salford, she was brought up in Stockport, and initially appeared in bit parts in soap operas, especially "Coronation Street" and "Emmerdale". Her film roles include an early, non-speaking part in Pink Floyd's "The Wall"; as a young Beatles fan in Birth of the Beatles', the fantasy adventure "Willow"; the mystery noir "Shattered" and the role of Christine Keeler in "Scandal", …
- Sue Lawley
Sue Lawley (born July 14, 1946) is an English broadcaster. She presented "Desert Island Discs" on BBC Radio 4 from 1988 until August 26 2006. (See) Born in Sedgley, Staffordshire, England and brought up in the Black Country, she was educated at Dudley Girls' High School and graduated in languages from the University of Bristol and some time later started her career at the BBC in Plymouth.
- Julie Felix
Julie Felix, is a folk rock recording artist, who was produced by Mickie Most on his RAK Records label. She graduated in 1956, from the original high school in Westchester, Los Angeles, California. In 1966 Felix became the resident singer on the popular BBC TV programme "The Frost Report", presented by David Frost, and between 1968 – 1970 hosted her own TV programme on the BBC, "The Julie Felix Show".
- Kathy Kirby
Kathy Kirby (born Kathleen O'Rourke, 20 October 1940, in Ilford, Essex) was a popular English singer of the 1960s. Kirby's soprano voice became apparent early in life and she was thought to be good enough for opera. She became a professional singer after meeting the bandleader, Ambrose at the Ilford Palais. She remained with Ambrose's band for three years and he remained her manager and mentor until his death in 1971. She adopted the look of a 'blonde bombshell', …
- Simon May
Simon May is a British musician and composer, best known for composing some of British television's best known theme tunes, including "EastEnders" and "Howards' Way".
- Paul Hardcastle
Paul Hardcastle (born December 10 1957, in London) is an English composer and musician specializing in the synthesizer. In the early 1980s he played keyboards on several singles on the Oval label by the dance music groups Direct Drive and First Light, before going solo. He achieved some acclaim for his early singles, notably the popular instrumental "Rainforest" 1984, but came to greater prominence in 1985 with the groundbreaking "19", …
- Joby Talbot
Joby Talbot (born August 25, 1971) is a British composer. Born in Wimbledon, London, Talbot initially studied composition at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College under Robert Saxton. In 1993 Talbot first met Neil Hannon and began arranging and performing with his group The Divine Comedy. One of their tracks, "In Pursuit of Happiness", was used as the theme music for BBC TV's "Tomorrow's World".
- Gordon Giltrap
Gordon Giltrap (born 6 April 1948, in East Peckham, Tonbridge, Kent) is an English acoustic and electric guitarist and composer, whose musical styles cross multiple genres - folk, blues, folk rock, pop, classical and rock. Giltrap started to learn the guitar at the age of twelve. Never receiving any formal tuition on the instrument, he gradually developed his own style and technique. His musical career started to take off in the 1960s, …
- Elaine Cassidy
Elaine Cassidy (born December 31, 1979) is an Irish actress. Elaine Cassidy was born in Kilcoole, County Wicklow, Ireland. Her first role was as "Pinocchio" in a school play when she was five. Her big break in the starring role of "Felicia's Journey" with Bob Hoskins. For that role she was nominated "Best Actress" at the 20th Genie Awards. For her role as Runt in "Disco Pigs", she won the 2003 IFTA Award of "Best Actress in a Feature Film".
- Kerry Shale
Kerry Shale is a Canadian actor. After training at Studio 58 Theatre School in Vancouver and beginning his career in that city, he moved to London where he has been living and working since 1978. He is married to Suzanne Shale, a former Oxford Law Don, currently a lecturer and medical ethicist. Shale’s theatre credits include six solo shows (five of which he wrote) which he has performed in Edinburgh, London, Berlin, Sydney, Cape Town and Off Broadway.
- Clive Everton
Clive Everton (born September 7, 1937), is a Welsh veteran BBC snooker commentator and journalist. He began his BBC career on the radio, but has been commentating on the television from the 1978 World Championship through to the present. He also commentates for Sky Sports on the Betfred Premier League snooker tournament. Everton was a talented amateur player of English billiards, reaching both the 1975 and 1977 world semi-finals. In the latter he exacerbated a back injury, …
- Donna Air
Donna Air (born August 2 1979 in Newcastle upon Tyne) is an English television presenter, singer and actress.
- Hamish Clark
Hamish Clark (says he was born in 1965) in Broughty Ferry, Dundee. He is a Scottish actor, briefly famous for playing the part of Duncan McKay in the BBC TV series "Monarch of the Glen". Hamish currently lives in London. He was also once the face of the Vodafone adverts.
- Duncan Wood
Duncan Wood,(b.1925 in Bristol,England-d.1997) was a comedy producer, director and writer in Britain. His best known achievements were to produce all of Tony Hancock's half hours for BBC TV during the late 1950's and early 1960's, and later, also with Hancock's former writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, the classic British sitcom Steptoe and Son for most of its run. Around 1972 he became head of comedy at Yorkshire Television.
- Donal MacIntyre
Donal MacIntyre (born 1966 in Dublin) is an Irish investigative journalist, specialising in undercover operations and television exposes. He was born in Dublin in 1966 and grew up in Kildare, Ireland and the United States. He has won praise for his courage, and several industry awards for journalism, but the machismo of his style has also brought some detractors, among them people whose activities he had revealed.
- Roddy Frame
Roddy Frame (born January 29 1964, East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland) is the founder of the 1980s indie band, Aztec Camera. Between 1981 and 1982 Frame was co-productive in fronting Postcard Records, where he began to befriend and record a string of low budget singles such as 'We could send letters' and 'A Mattress of Wire. The latter single drew attention from radio 1 DJ John Peel.
- Robbie Earle
Robert Fitzgerald "Robbie" Earle MBE (born 27 January, 1965 in Newcastle-under-Lyme) is a former professional footballer who played approximately 600 games in senior club football, scoring around 150 goals. Earle was the scorer of Jamaica's first ever World Cup goal, against Croatia, in their debut World Cup campaign in 1998. He currently works in television as a commentator and pundit for ITV.
- Jane Wymark
Jane Wymark (born 31 October, 1952 in London) is an English actress. The daughter of well-known actor Patrick Wymark (now deceased), she is best known for playing Morwenna Chynoweth Whitworth (Morwenna Carne at the closure of the series) in the 1970s BBC TV period drama "Poldark", and more recently Joyce Barnaby in the hugely popular ITV detective series "Midsomer Murders" (a role she has played since 1997).
- Ricky Grover
Ricky Grover is a British stand-up actor. He has appeared in various television programmes including "Red Dwarf", "'Orrible" and "Black Books". He also provided the voice acting for the character of Yangus in the English language version of the Playstation 2 game "Dragon Quest VIII". Ricky also writes a highly popular article for Loaded (magazine) under the title Raging Bulla, he's been writing for them since July 2003.
- Anna Madeley
Anna Madeley (born in 1977) is a British actor. She has been described by the British Theatre Guide's Philip Fisher as one of the United Kingdom's "brightest and most versatile young actresses". Madeley grew up in London, attending North London Collegiate School, and began her career as a child actress. She then trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Madeley has performed three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company(RSC): 2001-2 and 2003-4.
- Kieran O'Brien
Kieran O'Brien is an English actor. He was born in Rochdale in 1973. O'Brien began acting at a young age and was the star of a BBC TV series "Gruey" by the time he was 15. He also featured in several other series at the time in one-off or recurring roles. In 1993 he played the role of Craig Lee in two separate TV shows, "Coronation Street" and "Children's Ward". In 1993 he also became a regular in the detective series, "Cracker".
- Yvonne Brewster
Yvonne Brewster, O.B.E. is a Stage Director, Teacher and Writer. Born in Jamaica, Yvonne Brewster went to the UK to study drama in the mid fifties at the Rose Bruford College and the Royal Academy of Music. She returned to Jamaica to teach Drama and she also jointly founded The Barn - Jamaica's first professional theatre company. Upon her return to England she worked extensively in radio, television, and directing for Stage Productions.
- Jeff Winter
Jeff Winter (born 18 April 1955) is a former FA Premier League referee, and currently a freemason. He hails from Stockton-on-Tees in the north-east of England.
- Charlie Dore
Charlie Dore (born 1956 in Pinner, Middlesex) is an English singer-songwriter and actress.
- Andrew Downes
Andrew Downes (born 1950) is a British classical composer. Downes was born in Handsworth, Birmingham. In 1969, he won a choral scholarship to St. John's College, Cambridge, where he gained an MA degree specializing in composition, and in 1974 went on to study with Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music. Downes was head of the School of Composition and Creative Studies at the Birmingham Conservatoire from 1992 until 2005, when he retired.
- Adrian Goldberg
Adrian Goldberg (left wing journalist - born in Birmingham) was a BBC journalist and presenter of the Breakfast Show on BBC Radio WM. He also presented The Politics Show on BBC TV for the Midlands region, and was a reporter on the BBC TV consumer programme "Watchdog". Adrian is now editor of The Stirrer and has made a film about disquiet in the world of football - Manchester DisUnited. Other film projects are planned in the future.
- Alexis Kanner
Alexis Kanner was a French-born Anglo Canadian actor, most famous for appearing in the ground breaking TV series "The Prisoner". He was born in Nazi-occupied Bagnères-de-Luchon, France. In April 1944, shortly before his second birthday, his family ecaped with him to Montreal, Canada on the ship "Serpa Pinto". Kanner made his first impression as an actor in the role of Alex, among a French Canadian cast, in the television drama series "Beau Temps, …
- Mike Hugg
Mike Hugg (born Michael Hugg, 11 August 1942, Andover, Hampshire) is a professional musician (drums, vocals, keyboards and songwriter) and is best known as a founder member of the Mann-Hugg Blues Brothers, which evolved into the 1960s pop group, Manfred Mann; and subsequently The Manfreds in the 1990s. In the 1970s he wrote the theme tune to the BBC TV comedy series, "Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads". Apart from his role as keyboard player with The Manfreds, …
- Georgina Bruni
Georgina Bruni is British born business woman and a UFO researcher who helped secured the release of official document on the Rendlesham Forest Incident. She currently works as a celebrity events organizer and as the Editor in Chief of Hot Gossip Magazine. She currently lives in Knightsbridge, London.