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Kate grew up in Sunderland and gained her BA from Newcastle University where she read Swedish.

She became a familiar figure through her work as BBC Chief News Correspondent and was one of the first British women to send despatches from dang...

Alex Clark is a journalist and broadcaster, often seen in the pages of the Guardian, the Observer and the Times Literary Supplement, and heard on BBC R4 programmes such as Front Row and Open Book. An experienced chair of live events, she has also ...

Ayesha Hazarika MBE is a columnist and broadcaster who is known for her insightful and witty opinions and observations on current affairs and politics. She hosts the weekend drivetime show on Times Radio every Saturday and Sunday from 4 till 7pm, ...

Ben Taylor is Deputy Editor of The Sunday Times.

He is a French graduate who has worked in newspapers for 28 years after training at South Glamorgan Institute in Cardiff. 

He started professional life on local newsp...

Ben Taylor is Deputy Editor of The Sunday Times.

He is a French graduate who has worked in newspapers for 28 years after training at South Glamorgan Institute in Cardiff. 

He started professional life on local newspapers in Birmingha...

As Chief Interviewer for the Sunday Times, Decca interviews leading figures in public life across the world, from politics to the arts, entertainment to science, literature to sport. Her subjects have included Oprah Winfrey, Madonna, Tony Blair, J...

Dora is the editor of Better Homes and Gardens, the most widely read magazine in Australia. A passionate renovator, decorator and maker, Dora has worked in media for more than 25 years across print, TV and online and will host BH&G’s ne...

Elle is a passionate foodie who specialises in beautiful food. She has 16 years’ experience creating mouthwatering recipes, food imagery and video across a range of platforms including television, print, advertising, packaging, cook books, social ...

Emma Tucker started her career at the Financial Times as a graduate trainee, eventually becoming Editor of the FT Weekend. She joined The Times as Associate Features Editor, before taking over the editorship of Times2 a year later. After five year...

Jennie Bond has been a journalist and broadcaster in the UK for 40 years. She’s a familiar face on TV and is best known for the 14 years she spent as the BBC’s Royal Correspondent during some of the monarchy’s most tumultuous years. She reported e...

Jenny grew up in the countryside, where there were no supermarkets or even a corner store - so all her family’s vegetables were grown in a large plot while the orchard produced volumes of fruit. With no rubbish collections, everything was composte...

Currently the editor-in-chief of Australia’s number one home magazine, Better Homes and Gardens, Julia Zaetta is a major force in Australian publishing.  Julia began her career in magazines 39 years ago, her repertoire including magazines s...

Former BBC TV Correspondent and award-winning journalist Margaret Gilmore gives a series of illuminating talks on modern-day terrorism, security and risk, drawing on her own experiences and on up to the minute assessments from contacts at the high...

Mariella Frostrup is a writer, broadcaster and campaigner. Her current broadcast projects include Radio 4’s long running weekly programme Open Book, BBC1's The Big Painting Challenge and Bringing Up Britain, the Radio 4 series which looks at the c...

Marina Hyde is a columnist for The Guardian, where she writes on subjects from politics to sport to celebrity. She has won multiple awards for her columns, including Columnist of the Year at the British Journalism Awards for three years run...

Matt Chorley is a Times columnist, and editor of the award-winning Red Box political newsletter and podcast, in which he tries to make sense of what is happening in politics. He joined The Times in 2016, having spent more than a decade covering po...

Nicholas Owen has more than a half century’s experience of reporting for newspapers and TV, and Presenting news for BBC and ITN.  He is a former Royal Correspondent.  He covered the death and funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales. And in 2...

Best-selling author Patrick Jephson is a consultant, broadcaster and award-winning journalist based in Washington DC. He writes, presents and advises on factual and drama programmes, appearing on every major US network as well as cable and interna...

Rachel Johnson was the first female graduate trainee at the Financial Times and has worked for national newspapers since the age of 23. She has written four novels, one of which won her only literary award: The Bad Sex prize, which she shared with...

Richard Rogan has been editing the cryptic crosswords for The Times since 2014. In addition to vetting clues from other compilers, he contributes several of his own puzzles each month. It is generally agreed that these tend to be among the harder ...

Robbie Millen has been Literary Editor of The Times since 2013. He has also been deputy comment editor, a features editor for the Times, and a journalist at The Spectator and the Daily Express.

Sarah is a theatre critic for WhatsOnStage and a dance critic for The Observer. Sarah is former Arts Editor in Chief for the Daily Telegraph, London, and a journalist and broadcaster on all things cultural for publications including The Guardian, ...