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Gordon Kennedy is probably best known for the Channel 4 comedy series Absolutely, which aired from 1989 to 1993 which he co-stared in, co-wrote and produced. The BBC radio series of Absolutely is now available as a three series audiobook. Gordon co-hosted the original National Lottery show alongside Anthea Turner and in the late 90s, he was cast in the role of Little John in the BBC's hit series R...

Iain Lee is an award winning radio and television presenter who started on The 11 O’Clock Show on Channel 4 which was also the starting point for comedians such as Ricky Gervais and Sacha Baron Cohen. His extensive radio work includes shows on Xfm, LBC and Absolute Radio. He won a Radio Academy Award in 2014 for breakfast show of the year, moved to talkRadio in 2016 winning the audio and radio ind...

John Archer is a magician, comedian, actor and writer who is a member of the Magic Circle’s Inner Magic Circle and is a past winner of the Magic Circle Stage Magician of the Year competition. In 2019 John reached the semi-final of Britain's Got Talent and he was the first magician to successfully “fool” Penn & Teller on Penn & Teller: Fool Us. John has written for many TV shows including t...

Tony Way is best known as Lenny, the photographer, in Ricky Gervais’s After Life and Ser Dontos Hollard in Game of Thrones. Other TV appearances include The Fast Show, The Eleven O’Clock Show, Bang Bang it’s Reeves and Mortimer, Spaced, Randall and Hopkirk, Black Books, My Family, Extras, The Wall, Shooting Stars, Mongrels, Sherlock, Derek, Doctor Who, Not Going Out, Pompidou, Inside No.9, Murder...

Annabelle Dowler is best known for playing Kirsty, in the long running Radio 4 drama, The Archers, that she has played since 1999. On TV she’s been in such shows as The Suspect, Sense8 on Netflix, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, playing Catherine of Aragon, Lewis, The Suspect, Breaking Silence, Brexit - The Uncivil War, Mother’s Day, Doctor Who and the film Suffragette with Carey Mulligan, Helena Bon...

Catherine Tyldesley is an actor best known for playing Iris Moss in the BBC drama, Lillies, Eva Price on Coronation Street from 2011 to 2018 and Karen Norris in the BBC One sitcom Scarborough co-starring Jason Manford. She was a contestant on the 17th series of Strictly Come Dancing with her partner Johannes Radebe. She has been nominated for the British Soap awards, Inside Soap awards and the TV...

Sally Hodgkiss is an award-winning actor, writer and comedian. Sally performs regularly on the comedy circuit, most recently as a guest with the legendary Comedy Store Players. She’s performed with Whose Line is it Anyway - Live and The Stephen Frost Impro Allstars. Her acting career has taken her to many theatres around the UK including the Manchester Royal Exchange,...

David Earl is an actor and comedian famous for his brilliant comedy character, Brian Gittens, which he plays in several Ricky Gervais projects; Derek, Extras, the film Cemetery Junction and the world wide Netflix smash hit, After Life. David works regularly with his After Life co-star, Joe Wilkinson and together they co-wrote and starred in the sitcom Rovers and the comedy series The Coc...

Welsh actor Sian Reese-Williams is probably best known for playing Detective Inspector Cadi John in Hidden, a bilingual crime drama for BBC Wales and BBC Four which ran for three very successful series. She played the role of Gennie Walker in Emmerdale from 2008-13. In 2016, she featured in series 3 of the critically acclaimed Welsh crime drama Hinterland and in...

Zoe Lyons is standup comedian and writer best known for her regular appearances on TV and radio in shows such as Mock The Week, The News Quiz, Live At The Apollo, Alan Davies As Yet Untitled, Just A Minute, Celebrity Mastermind, Michael McIntyre Roadshow, Celebrity University Challenge, The Now Show and 8 Out of 10 Cats. She won the Funny Women Competition in 2004 and her debut Edinburgh show was...

Kerry Howard is a BAFTA nominated actor who is best known for playing Laura in the BAFTA award-winning BBC sitcom Him and Her alongside Russel Tovey, Sarah Solemani and Joe Wilkinson. She had her first big break in the BBC remake of sitcom Reggie Perrin, played the lead ‘Leanne’ in three series of Witless for BBC Three and played the title role in Young Hyacinth for BBC One. Other television credi...

Actor and singer Tom Read Wilson started his career when he auditioned for The Voice back in 2016 giving an incredible rendition of Accentuate the Positive. This led to him becoming the hilarious receptionist on Celebs Go Dating. Tom has written two books on etymology, one for children called every word tells a story and On the tip of my tongue, for adults. He won Celebrity Mastermind, was 2nd on...

Steve Steen is a comedian and actor best known for his appearances on Whose Line Is It Anyway and as a member of the world famous improvisational comedy group, The Comedy Store Players. He, for many years, worked with another of our guests, Jim Sweeney. They joined Oval House Theatre Club in 1972 where they first started doing improv together. By the 1980’s they were performing on TV in the ITV ch...

Gordon Buchanan is a Scottish wildlife filmmaker and television presenter, who has been responsible for some of the most iconic moments in numerous wildlife documentaries, such as filming big cats for Big Cat Diary, grey seals and foxes for Springwatch and his “...and me” documentary series, including The Bear Family & Me, The Polar Bear Family & Me, Snow Wolves, Gorillas, Elephants, Tribe...

John Altman is a BAFTA and EMMY winning film composer, arranger and musician. His feature films include the award-winning Little Voice, he wrote all the period music for Titanic, the classic tank chase in Goldeneye, he arranged Always Look on the Bright Side of Life from The Life Of Brian, RKO281 (EMMY winner), Hear My Song (BAFTA winner), Shall We Dance starring Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez, F...

David Ames is best known for playing Dominic Copeland in Holby City from 2013 to 2022. David has also appeared on TV in He Kills Coppers with Rafe Spall, the first Doctor Who episode to be filmed in HD, Planet of the Dead, which featured David Tennent as Dr Who, and has recently appeared on stage in the title role of Steve at the Seven Dials Playhouse and as Tim in Horse Play at the Riverside Stud...

Lorelei King is one of the most successful and accomplished American actresses working in the UK today. She has appeared in numerous film and TV shows including Alien Covenant, Notting Hill, The Saint, Cold Feet, Jam, Birds of a Feather, Chef, Alistair McGowan's Big Impression, Emmerdale Jonathan Creek, Not Going Out, The Robinsons and Monarch of the Glen. She’s also various voices in the Ame...

Caitlin O’Ryan is an actor who is best known from the international smash hit TV series, Outlander, where she plays series regular, Lizzie Wemyss, the handmaid. Caitlin is a graduate of The Oxford School of Drama, which has produced many top actors. Outlander was her professional debut but in her final year at drama school she appeared in The Lights at The Royal Court and followed this with If and...

Tommy Cannon was one half of the legendary comic double act, Cannon and Ball, until his friend and partner, Bobby Ball’s sad death in 2020. Cannon and Ball’s prime time Saturday night television series, the Cannon and Ball Show, was one of ITV’s most successful series, it ran for twelve years with audiences often as high as twenty million viewers. They even made their own film, The Boys In Blue, i...

One liner comedian Mark Simmons, is probably best known for his multiple appearances on the satirical comedy show, Mock the Week. He was voted the best act by UK Comics’ Comic 2022 and was included in Dave’s top 10 jokes at the Edinburgh Fringe. His Edinburgh show, One linerer, was a sell out hit in 2017 and he followed it up with One Linererer, which was also a sell out. He’s had his own UK tours...

Ronnie Golden is a musician, composer, and stand up comedian. Ronnie started as a teenage guitarist, opening shows for Tom Jones, Scott Walker and Engelbert Humperdinck. He worked with David Bowie in his Beckenham Arts Lab days then went on to form the cult new wave group, Fabulous Poodles who outsold both The Clash and The Jam in America in the early 80’s. After that he w...

Neil Delamere is an award winning Irish comedian. He makes regular appearances on BBC Radio 4 on The News Quiz, The Now Show and The Unbelievable Truth as well as Fighting Talk on BBC 5Live. He’s one of the biggest comics working on the Irish scene with huge sell out tours and having presenting numerous shows on RTE including Neil Delamere’s Just For Laughs, Eureka, The Big Bang Query, and Republi...

Rachel Fairburn is a stand up comedian and podcaster who was featured in Chortle’s ‘One to Watch’ list in 2020. She has been a finalist of several prestigious comedy competitions including Funny Women, City Life Comedian of the Year, the NATYS and English Comedian of the Year. Rachel is co-host of the worldwide smash hit podcast All Killa No Filla, which he hosts with her friend Kiri Pritchard McL...

Jim Sweeney is a member of the world famous improvisational group the Comedy Store Players, with other members including Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Neil Mullarkey, Richard Vranch, Sandi Toksvig and Jeremy Hardy with many celebrity guests such as Eddie Izzard, Caroline Quentin, Phil Jupitus, Greg Proops and Mike Myers. He’s been in Who's Line Is It Anyway?, Blackadder, One Foot In the Grave, Kiss...

Cliff Parisi is best known for playing Minty Peterson in Eastenders for 8 years and Fred Buckle in the multi award winning BBC drama, Call the Midwife. Other notable credits include Bit of Fry and Laurie, KYTV, The Darling Buds of May, The Upper Hand, London’s Burning, Drop the Dead Donkey, Kavanagh QC, Pie in the Sky, A Prince Among Men, The Saint, Paul Merton in Galton and Simpson’s…., Kiss me K...