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Rageh Omaar has covered and reported from some of the most hostile places on earth. His career has spanned the BBC, Al Jazeera and ITN. He is a reporter, a documentary maker, author, newscaster and is now International Affairs Editor at ITV. In this conversation Rageh talks about how he became a journalist, his time with the BBC reporting from Iraq during the 2003 invasion and what it was like to...

Actor, narrator, screenplay writer and author Jeff Rawle talks about how he fell into acting, his time at drama school, landing the lead in a new television comedy Billy Liar just two days out of drama school, working with Alan Bennett, his time as George Dent in Drop the Dead Donkey and what it was like to be Amos Diggory in Harry Potter. Having been in the industry for forty-eight years, Jeff sh...

Sonia Jones is one of the top backing vocalists and vocal coaches in the music industry. She sang the title track to Monty Python's Life of Brian when she was only sixteen years old, she was the lead in the Broadway Production Dreamtime and has performed in multiple other musicals plus the TV show Let's Rock. She has toured with The Who, Spandau Ballet, Mike Oldfield and James Last; she has record...

Saxophonist Chris White played with Dire Straits for 10 years. He has also recorded and played with many other top artists including Sir Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Ray Charles, Joe Cocker, Aretha Franklin, Robbie Williams, Chris de Burgh, Aztec Camera, Haircut 100. More recently he has been managing and touring with his band 'The Dire Straits Experience' and has a packed tour scheduled in multip...

Eva Hamilton has spent most of her life turning around the lives of some of the most marginalised members of society including inner city youth, the homeless, war veterans, young offenders and with those at risk of offending. In 2005 she was awarded an MBE by Prince Charles alongside whom she has worked for many years. Eva talks about how this evolved; how working with Mother Theresa changed the c...