- John Paul
John Paul (April 20 1921-February 1995) was a British actor. He is best known for his roles as Dr Spencer Quist in "Doomwatch" (1970-1972) and Marcus Agrippa in "I, Claudius" (1976), both for BBC Television. An early role was as the lead in the ITV series "Probation Officer" in the early 1960s. During his career he also appeared in films such as "The Yangtze Incident" (1957) and "Cry Freedom" (1987), …
- 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.
- Ricky Gervais
Ricky Dene Gervais (born June 25, 1961) is an Emmy, Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning English comic writer and performer from Reading, Berkshire. Gervais found mainstream fame with his BBC Two television programme "The Office" and the series Extras which he co-wrote and co-directed with friend and collaborator, Stephen Merchant. Besides writing and directing the shows, Gervais also played the lead roles of David Brent in The Office and Andy Millman in Extras.
- Julie Walters
Julia Mary Walters, OBE (born February 22, 1950) is an English Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning film, television and stage actress.
- Nigel Kneale
Nigel Kneale (18 April 1922 - 29 October 2006) was a Manx writer, who worked mostly in the United Kingdom. Active in television, film, radio drama and prose fiction, he wrote professionally for over fifty years, was a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and was twice nominated for the British Film Award for Best Screenplay. Predominantly a writer of thrillers which used science-fiction and horror elements, …
- Joss Stone
Joscelyn Eve Stoker (born 11 April 1987), best known by her stage name Joss Stone, is a BRIT Award- and Grammy Award-winning English soul, R&B, and blues singer, songwriter, and occasional actress who has sold over ten million albums worldwide.
- Kirsty Wark
Two children. Co-owner of Wark Clements production company with her husband A Guinness drinker. Holds a degree in Scottish Studies from Edinburgh University.
- John Hopkins
John Hopkins (sometimes credited as John R. Hopkins) (January 27, 1931 - July 23 1998) was an English film and television writer. Born in London, he began his career as a studio manager for BBC Television in the 1950s, before establishing himself as a writer on the BBC's popular police drama "Z-Cars" during the early 1960s. Hopkins eventually wrote over ninety episodes of "Z-Cars", …
- Julie Gardner
Julie Gardner is a Welsh television producer who is currently both Controller of Drama Commissioning at BBC Television and Head of Drama for BBC Wales. Her most prominent work has been serving as executive producer on the 2005 revival of "Doctor Who". Gardner was born in Neath in June 1969, and grew up in Glynneath. She attended Neath Tertiary College and read English at the University of London. She initially worked as a teacher at GCSE and A-Level level, …
- Jane Tranter
Jane Tranter (born March 17, 1963 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK) is a British television drama executive, who as of September 2006 is the "Head of Fiction" at BBC television. In this capacity she oversees the corporation's output in drama and comedy, as well as films and programmes acquired from overseas, across all television channels. After studying English Literature at King's College London and taking a secretarial course back in Oxford, …
- Stephen Cole
Stephen Cole (born 1971) is an author of children's books and science fiction. He was also in charge of BBC Enterprises' merchandising of the BBC Television series "Doctor Who" between 1997 and 1999: this was a role which found him deciding on which stories should be released on video, authorising requests for licences to create merchandise, and acting as executive producer on the Big Finish Productions range of "Doctor Who" audio dramas.
- Jonathan Powell
Jonathan Powell (born 1947) is a British television producer and executive. After graduating from the University of East Anglia in 1968, he began working in television drama, producing programmes such as "Crown Court". He produced several drama series during the 1970s, including literary adaptations such as "A Christmas Carol" (1977) and "Wuthering Heights" (1978).
- Peter Horrocks
Peter Horrocks (born 1959) is the Head of Television News at the BBC. Peter joined the BBC in October 1981 as a news trainee. He went on to work for "Newsnight" as an assistant producer and then producer. After working as a senior producer, intake editor and output editor on "Breakfast Time" (now "Breakfast"), he became deputy editor of "Panorama" in 1988. In 1992, Peter edited the BBC's television election night results programme.
- John Robinson
John Robinson (November 11 1908 - March 6 1979) was a British actor, who was particularly active in the theatre. Mostly cast in minor and supporting roles in film and television, he is best remembered for being the second actor to play the famous television science-fiction role of Professor Bernard Quatermass, in the 1955 BBC Television serial "Quatermass II".
- Chris Addison
Chris Addison (born 1971, Manchester) is an English writer, stand up comedian, and actor, with a career that has spanned over a decade. His BBC radio work includes the anthropological lecture series "The Ape That Got Lucky" with Dan Tetsell, and the political satire "The Department" with John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman. Addison has also appeared in the BBC television satire "The Thick of It" as the character of Oliver "Ollie" Reeder.
- Shaun Sutton
Shaun Alfred Graham Sutton OBE (born October 14 1919 in Hammersmith, London; died May 14 2004 in Norfolk) was an English television writer, director, producer and executive, who worked in the medium for nearly forty years from the 1950s to the 1990s. His most important role was as the Head of Drama at BBC Television from the late 1960s until 1981, a role he occupied for longer than anybody else before or since, …
- Rudolph Cartier
Rudolph Cartier (born Rudolph Katscher; April 17 1904-June 7 1994) was an Austrian television director who worked predominantly in British television, exclusively for the BBC. He is best known for his 1950s collaborations with screenwriter Nigel Kneale, most notably the "Quatermass" serials and their 1954 adaptation of George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four".
- Mike Tucker
Mike Tucker (born South Wales) is a special effects expert who worked for many years at the BBC Television Visual Effects Department, and now works as a freelance Effects Supervisor. He is also the author of a variety of spin-offs relating to the television series "Doctor Who". He sometimes co-writes with Robert Perry, and most often for the character of the Seventh Doctor.
- Peter Salmon
Peter Salmon (born May 15, 1956) is a British television producer and executive. Since October 2006 he has been the Chief Creative Officer of BBC Vision, effectively overseeing all of BBC television's in-house programme production.
- John Inverdale
John Inverdale (born in April 6th 1957 Plymouth, England) is an English radio and television broadcaster who works for the BBC. He is the son of a Royal Navy dental surgeon, Captain John Inverdale, who played rugby for Devonport Services R.F.C. in Plymouth. Inverdale was educated at Clifton College in Bristol and at the University of Southampton, where he obtained a history degree in 1979, …
- Mark Morris
Mark Morris (born in 1963 in Bolsover) is an author most well known for his series of horror novels, although he has also written two novels based on the BBC Television series "Doctor Who". He currently lives in Tadcaster with his wife (the artist Nel Whatmore) and their children. He occasionally writes as JM Morris.
- George Alagiah
George Maxwell Alagiah (born November 22, 1955 in Sri Lanka) is a newsreader on BBC Television in the UK. He co-presents the Six O'Clock News with Natasha Kaplinsky. He has been the main presenter of BBC World's "World News Today" programme since its launch.
- Peter Anghelides
Peter Anghelides is a British author and dramatist best known for his work on various spin-offs related to the BBC television series "Doctor Who".
- Alan Bleasdale
Alan Bleasdale (born March 23, 1946 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, brought up in Huyton) is an English television dramatist, best known for several social realist drama serials based on the lives of ordinary people.
- Leslie Mitchell
Leslie Mitchell (born October 4, 1905 in Edinburgh, died November 23, 1985 in London) was famous in the United Kingdom as the first voice heard on BBC Television at its inception on November 2, 1936, and also for making the first announcement on Associated-Rediffusion, the first ITV company, on September 22, 1955. His voice was perhaps most recognised, however, from his long association with British Movietone News, …
- Bill Cotton
Sir Bill Cotton CBE, is a British television producer and executive, the son of big-band leader Billy Cotton. Following a secondary education at Ardingly College, West Sussex, he joined BBC Television as an in-house producer of light entertainment programmes in 1956, working on various programmes such as his father’s "The Billy Cotton Band Show" and popular music programme "Six-Five Special". In 1970, he was promoted to Head of Light Entertainment, …
- 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.
- Paul Fox
Sir Paul Fox, CBE, is a British television executive, who spent much of his broadcasting career working for BBC Television, most prominently as the Controller of BBC One between 1967 and 1973. He began his career at the Corporation in the 1950s, writing scripts for the "Television Newsreel" programme before going on to create and edit the popular sports programme "Sportsview".
- Martin Campbell
Martin Campbell (born October 241940, Hastings) is a New Zealand film and television director. He directed the 1995 film "GoldenEye", in which Pierce Brosnan made his first appearance as James Bond, and then Daniel Craig as a new Bond in for 2006's "Casino Royale". He also directed the two recent Zorro films, "The Mask of Zorro" (1998) and "The Legend of Zorro" (2005), both starring Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
- Anthony Coburn
Anthony Coburn was an Australian television writer and producer, who spent much of his professional career living and working in the United Kingdom. After initially working as a butcher's assistant in his native Australia, he turned to writing and in the 1950s moved to the UK, where he joined the staff of BBC Television.
- Cliff Michelmore
Arthur Clifford (Cliff) Michelmore CBE (born 11 December 1919 in Cowes, Isle of Wight) is a British television presenter and producer. He is best known for the BBC television programme "Tonight", which he presented from 1957 to 1965. Notably, he also hosted the BBC's television coverage of the Apollo moon landings and the 1964, 1966 and 1970 UK general elections. He was awarded the CBE in 1969.
- Martin Day
Martin Day (born 1968) is a screenwriter and novelist best known for his work on various spin-offs related to the BBC Television series "Doctor Who", and many episodes of the daytime soaps "Doctors" and "Family Affairs".
- Harry H. Corbett
Harry H. Corbett OBE (born 28 February 1925 in Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar); died 21 March 1982 in Hastings, Sussex, England) was a distinguished English actor. He was awarded the OBE in 1976 for services to drama. Corbett was best known for his starring role in the hugely popular and long-running BBC Television sitcom "Steptoe and Son" in the 1960s and 70s. Early in his career he was dubbed "the English Marlon Brando" by some sections of the British press, …
- Keith Topping
Keith Andrew Topping (born 26th October 1963 in Walker, Tyneside), is an author, journalist and broadcaster most closely associated with his work relating to the BBC Television series "Doctor Who" and for writing numerous official and unofficial guide books to a wide variety of television and film series, specifically Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He is also the author of two books of rock music critique. To date, Keith has written over 40 books.
- Will Wyatt
Will Wyatt (born January 7 1942) is a British is a media consultant and company director, formerly a journalist, television producer and senior executive at the BBC. His career began in 1964 as a trainee journalist on the "Sheffield Telegraph" newspaper, before moving to the BBC in 1965 as a sub-editor in BBC radio news. BBC radio. In 1968 he moved to BBC Television, working for the Presentation Department as producer of "Points of View", …
- Colin Brake
Colin Brake (born 1963) is an English television writer and script editor best known for his work for the BBC on programs such as "Bugs" and "EastEnders". He has also written spin-offs from the BBC series "Doctor Who". He currently lives and works in Leicester.
- Wilfrid Brambell
Wilfrid Brambell was an Irish film and television actor, born in Dublin, best known for his role in the British television series "Steptoe and Son". He also starred alongside The Beatles in their film "A Hard Day's Night". On leaving school he worked part-time as a reporter for the "Irish Times", part-time as an actor at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, before becoming a professional actor for the Gate Theatre.
- Pete Murray
Peter ("Pete") Murray (born Peter Murray James on 19 September 1925) is a British radio and television presenter and a stage and screen actor. His broadcasting career spanned over 50 years. Peter Murray joined the English service of Radio Luxembourg in 1949 or 1950 as one of its resident announcers in the Grand Duchy, and remained there until 1956. Back in London, and now calling himself "Pete" rather than "Peter", …
- Roger Delgado
Roger Caesar Marius Bernard de Delgado Torres Castillo Roberto (March 1, 1918 - June 18, 1973) was a British actor, best known for his role as the Master in "Doctor Who". He was born in Whitechapel, in the East End of London - Delgado often remarked to "Doctor Who" actor Jon Pertwee, a close friend, that this made him a true cockney, as he was born within the sound of the Bow Bells - although his mother was Spanish and his father French.
- Chris Carter
Chris Carter was born on 28 January 1953, in Islington, London, England. He is best known for his time in Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey. His long time partner Cosey Fanni Tutti is the mother of his son, Nick, as well as another member of TG. He began his career in the late 1960s' working for various UK TV stations (Thames, Granada and LWT) as a sound engineer on numerous TV shows and documentaries.