books include Cock and Bull, My Idea of Fun, How the Dead Live, Great Apes, and听The Book of Dave.听He is a regular guest on Have I Got News For You and Grumpy Old Men. He also used to draw cartoons for the New Statesman.
Michael Whitehall was one of the finest theatrical agent鈥檚 鈥 his stars included Donald Sinden, Nigel Havers, James Fox, Anton Rodgers, Daniel Day Lewis and Dame Judi Dench. He's penned his autobiography, .
is a hugely successful crime writer and film producer. He was once Orson Wells cleaner. His latest Roy Grace novel is called Dead Man鈥檚 footsteps. His latest TV production is called China 2008.
joined the infantry as a boy soldier, going onto join the SAS 8 years later. He received the DCM听& the Military Medal & left the British Army as its most decorated soldier in 1993
Adam Hart Davis is one of the UK鈥檚 best ambassadors for science听& history.听After a stint in publishing he went to work for Yorkshire TV听& has presented programmes such as Local Heroes, What the Romans/Tudors/Stuarts & now Ancients Did For Us.
Multi-talented musician Nitin Sawhney听composes, produces, collaborates and teaches. He's released听7 albums听& worked with Sting, Jeff Beck听& Sir Paul McCartney, the London Symphony Orchestra听& the Royal Ballet of China.
Joanne Harris is our studio guest. She's written a couple of cookbooks, a collection of short stories, her novel Chocolat was turned into a film and her lastest offering is called Runemarks.
Brough Scott is one of the best known figures in horse racing. He's also written 6 books, the latest 鈥淕alloper Jack鈥 being a critically acclaimed biography of his grandfather and is currently researching a series of Victorian novels.
Andrew Roberts is a regular columnist for The Sunday Telegraph, reviews widely and broadcasts regularly on history and politics for 成人快手2 and Channel 4.
began her writing life as a literary journalist, editing the books section of The Listener magazine. She has kept a high profile as a journalist, writing for The Times听, Woman's Journal听听and more recently as a critic for the Daily Mail and The Sunday Times, where she is a regular book reviewer.
She has published six books, including three novels.听Her book on punctuation, Eats, Shoots and Leaves, was the publishing phenomenon of 2003. She has also written many scripts for Radio 4, including dramas, sitcoms and talks.听
After leaving any thoughts of higher, formal education to his school friends, Paul听Roseby left Norfolk to join the National Youth Theatre in the mid 1980's, and enjoyed four successful years with the company as a young actor.
After working as a presenter for radio and jobbing actor, Roseby went back to his roots and became Co-Artistic Director for NYT, has leading the creative expansion of Britain's premier youth and arts organisation for the past three and a half years, delivering the highest audience figures in the company鈥檚 50 year history.
Felix Dennis is one of Britain鈥檚 best known entrepreneurs. He was born in Kingston-upon-Thames in 1947.
After leaving Harrow College of Art, Dennis wasted a great deal of his youth playing in R&B bands. In 1971 he was imprisoned by the British government as a co-editor of OZ magazine at the culmination of the longest conspiracy trial in English history. Dennis recorded a single with John Lennon to raise money for a legal defence fund.