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Maria Arpa

Profile: Maria Arpa is a renowned London-based mediator who specialises in working with couples who are unhappy but don’t know which way to turn. She is available for magazine interviews and is willing to discuss all the issues connected with marital disharmony.  More

Dan Beedell

Profile: Dan (32), who was held hostage in a bank raid in Ashford, Surrey, had already said he forgives the man who twice held a gun to his head and threatened to kill him. We are able to go back to Dan for new interview material subject to commission parameters. More

Gyles Brandreth

Profile: We’re now taking commissions for exclusive interviews with the writer, broadcaster and former Member of Parliament, who, following a hugely successful, sellout run at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2010, toured the UK with his critically acclaimed THE ONE TO ONE SHOW. Gyles took his special blend of wit, wordplay and hilarious name-dropping all over the UK - and not a woolly jumper in sight! More

Cerrie Burnell

Profile: This UK Actress and presenter was born missing her right hand. She unwittingly caused controversy in Feb 2009 after becoming a CBeebies presenter, when some parents claimed on internet forums that her disability might scare their children. She has a young daughter, born late in 2008. She grew up in Eastbourne and attended Manchester Metropolitan University. More

Joe Calzaghe

Profile: Retired Welsh boxer Joe Calzaghe has forged a career in the media since hanging up his gloves in 2009. He remained unbeaten throughout his professional career and has since gone on to star in Strictly Come Dancing whilst setting up his own promotions company. He is also at the forefront of anti-bullying campaigns. Joe won Soccer Aid in 2010 and was the 2006 BBC Sports Personality Of The Year. More

Alistair Campbell

Profile: Alastair Campbell is a British journalist, broadcaster, political aide and author, best known for his work as Director of Communications and Strategy for Tony Blair between 1997 and 2003. Campbell, a Yorkshireman, describes himself as a "Communicator, Writer and Strategist". More

Stephen Dando-Collins

Profile: Stephen Dando-Collins is an Australian historian and novelist, with books centered around Antiquity, American history, British history, Australian history, and French history. He is also a well known proponent of Tasmanian secession and has both published works and debated on the topic. He worked in advertising in Australia and Britain and then as an independent marketing consultant for some years. He now writes full time and his latest book is entitled, Legions of Rome. Other titles from the author include, Mark Antony's Heroes, Blood of the Caesars and Nero's Killing Machine. More

Luol Deng

Profile: Luol Deng is the highest profile British basketball player in the world's best league, the NBA. He currently plays for the Chicago Bulls. He also has the Luol Deng Foundation, which helps people worldwide. He is a fan of Arsenal FC. More

Louise Ellman

Profile: Liverpool Labour MP re-elected as chairman of Commons Transport Select Committe. Born in Manchester. She went to university in Hull and has also lived in Leeds, and is a subscriber to Judaism. More

Sir Ranulph Fiennes

Profile: Britain's greatest living adventurer has sailed and trekked 52,000 miles along the globe’s polar axis, was the world’s first man to reach both poles by land and discovered the lost city of Ubar beneath the sands of Oman. He also completed the first-ever unsupported crossing of the Antarctic, made three attempts at conquering Everest (despite a crippling fear of heights) and ran seven marathons on seven continents in seven consecutive days, just months after a double heart bypass. Born in Glasgow, Fiennes also stood for the Countryside Party at the 2004 European Elections. More

Ben Fogle

Profile: A TV Presenter, Writer and Adventurer whose achievements include racing in the notorious 160 mile Marathon Des Sables, rowing the Atlantic Ocean in 49 days and crossing Antarctica in a foot race to the South Pole. He has presented numerous programmes including Wild In Africa, Countryfile and Extreme Dreams. He writes regularly for the Sunday Telegraph and the Independent and has four bestselling books. He is an ambassador for WWF, Medcins Sans Frontier and Tusk, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the President of the Campaign for National Parks. Born in London, he attended University of Portsmouth. More

Erik Gandini

Profile: With the release of Videocracy, an in-depth look at the Italian television culture that Silvio Berlusconi has presided over, Erik Gandini caused quite a stir. The state broadcaster in Italy banned the trailer and lawsuits were threatened. Gandini can talk about the reaction to Videocracy, Silvio Berlusconi, and the problems that are dominating Italian culture. Videocracy won gongs at the Toronto Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest, the Golden Graal Awards and the Tempo Documentary Award 2010. More

Paul Gilson

Profile: Paul Gilson is a Thames Estuary fisherman, who can trace his fishing heritage back over 300 years, is worried about new London port development. He is also skipper of Endeavour - used in the D-Day landings - which was only recently discovered in a salvage yard and restored by local fishermen. More

Tanni Grey-Thompson

Profile: One of Britain's greatest athletes, Tanni Grey-Thompson has won numerous honours on the track, including four golds at the 1992 Barcelona Paralympics. The same year, she won her first of six London Wheelchair Marathons, before adding a clutch of other titles including 800m gold in the 1996 Atlanta games and four golds in Sydney, 2000. She was awarded the MBE in 1992 and voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2000. Tanni now works as a media pundit and speaker. Born in Cardiff, she has received numerous honorary degrees including honorary doctorates from Leeds Metropolitan University, Loughborough University, Southampton University, Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Wales. She is currently Pro-Chancellor of Staffordshire University. More

Jeremy Hardy

Profile: Described by The Guardian as ‘One of the sharpest comedians on the circuit’ and as regularly seen on QI, Mock The Week, Grumpy Old Men, and more, we’re now taking commissions for exclusive interviews with the award-winning alternative comic, who is currently on a UK tour.  More

Philbert Kalisa

Profile: Originally from Rwanda but grew up a refugee in neighbouring Burundu, 44-year-old Kalisa lost many family members in the genocide. He went back home and has spent the last 14 years working to reconcile Hutus and Tutsis. More

Ross Kemp

Profile: Ross Kemp available for short-term interviews.

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Trevor Baylis OBE

Profile: A UK inventor best known for designing the wind-up radio to help disseminate information about AIDS in Africa. Commemorated with the Order of the British Empire, Baylis was also awarded an honorary doctorate by Leeds Metropolitan University in June 2005. He now runs Trevor Baylis Brands plc, a company dedicated to helping inventors develop and protect their ideas and find a route to market. He is from west London. More

Lembit Opik

Profile: Lembit is the loveable 'cheeky boy' whose fame continues to rise despite being displaced from his Monmouthshire seat at the General Election. He has continued to forge a career in the media, most notably as a stand-up comic, and put himself forward  as a candidate for Mayor of London. More

Simon Pentol

Profile: London-based sports lawyer Simon Pentol is an efficacious legal whizz and one of the sports market’s most vibrant figures, an expert on everything from drug legislation in athletics to the Bosman ruling. More

Pekka Pesonen

Profile: Pekka Pesonen is Secretary-General of the European farmer union Copa–Cogeca. More

Lewis Gordon Pugh

Profile: A high-profile environmental campaigner, Pugh is the only person to have swum long distance in all 5 oceans of the world. In August 2006 he became the first person to swim the length of the Thames from source to sea and, in February 2007, the first to swim at the North Pole. A former SAS soldier and maritime lawyer, he divides his time between London and South Africa. In March 2010 Lewis named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum for 2010. Born in Plymouth. More

John Quinn

Profile: Quinn is senior partner of Quinn Emanuel, American's biggest litigation-only law firm, with offices in London, Tokyo and Dusseldorf. He has lively and controversial views on all topics relating to the law. More

Paul Rankin

Profile: A well-respected celebrity chef, Paul Rankin is a regular on cookery shows such as Saturday Kitchen, Market Kitchen and Ready Steady Cook. He runs the Cayenne restaurant in his native Belfast, and overhauling the menus at a Belfast Care Home for the elderly led to him addressing conferences and events for care industry professionals. More

Patrick Regan

Profile: Patrick works with teenagers across eight London boroughs trying to get them out of gangs, or better, prevent them going in in the first place. His organisation, XLP, engages 12,000 young people. His has a book out called, Fighting Chance. More

Garry Richardson

Profile: Radio presenter Garry Richardson is best known for his Sunday morning sports show Sportsweek on BBC Radio 5 Live. He's also the presenter of the Today show on Radio Four and is part of the BBC's Wimbledon tennis coverage team. He started off with BBC Radio Oxford and is a fierce advocate of the welfare state system having grown up in social housing. More

William Roache

Profile: Actor and national icon William Roache celebrated 50 years as Ken Barlow in "Coronation Street" in the programme's 50th year in 2010. New pix available, by separate negotiation. He is also a strong supporter of the Conservative Party and was raised in Ilkeston, Derbyshire. More

Aric Sigman

Profile: One of Britain's leading psychologists, Aric Sigman is not afraid of controversy. He took on the broadcast industry in Remotely Controlled: How Television is Damaging Our Lives. And his most recent book, The Spoilt Generation, argued that 'middle-class parenting' was producing a generation of spoilt, over-entitled, unhappy children. His views are always powerful, well-argued and impassioned and he has plenty to say about every aspect of psychology, child-rearing and life in modern-day Britain. More

John Simpson

Profile: *Pre-conducted* John Simpson is an acclaimed BBC journalist who has travelled all over the world and got himself into some rather hair-raising situations: he spoke to our journalist about having a gun put to the back of his neck and the trigger being pulled when he was a young man; dressing up in a burqa, disguised as a woman in Afghanistan; taking hallucinogenic drugs in the jungle and becoming a father again at the age of 63... More

Mark Steel

Profile: We’re now taking commissions for exclusive interviews with the popular author, presenter, stand-up comedian and socialist columnist and has a highly acclaimed, Sony Award winning and Writers Guild Award winning Radio 4 comedy show, Mark Steel’s In Town. More

John Suchet

Profile: Widely respected award-winning ITN newscaster John Suchet has enjoyed a fantastic career covering a wide range of defining news events. As well as a charity message, the amicable Scottish-born journalist hosts a high-profile weekday morning radio show on Classic FM. He attended the University of Dundee. More

Robert King Wilkerson

Profile: Only member of the Angola 3 to be presently at liberty. The Angola 3 are three men who between them have spent over a century in solitary confinement. They have been kept in permanent lockdown in Louisiana State Penitentiary since the early 70s following the killing of a prison warden. All three men claim they are innocent and are being punished for their support of the Black Panther political party. Wilkerson was released in 2001 after 29 years in solitary confinement. He is based in Austin, Texas, and spends his time campaigning for the release of his two friends. More

John Williams

Profile: John Williams is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Leicester University, and specialises in the sociology of football and football fan culture. His expertise has seen him act as a consultant in football and rugby, and he recently appeared on Sky Sports in discussions over fan behaviour at the World Cup. More

Jonny Woo

Profile: No other name is as synonymous with the of London's cross-dressing and the gay performance scene than that of Jonny Woo. As much a (wo)man about town as he is a an actor and performer, this young entertainer has been credited with the revival-nay-the proliferation of gay culture in London. He has hosted talent shows in Shoreditch, conga lines and voguing events at the National Portrait Gallery, performed at Bestival and at BBC Radio 1’s Wonderland party in Ibiza, and has modelled for Omar Kashoura. He also opens designer boutiques, such as Jeanette’s of London. More