Jack Monroe
Jack Monroe is a food writer and anti-poverty campaigner. Born in Southend on Sea, she joined the Essex County Fire and Rescue Service in 2007 to work in their control room. She left in November...
Charles Handy
Regularly cited as one of the world's top management gurus by Thinkers50, Charles Handy is a writer, broadcaster and lecturer.
The Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir (and Rev Lucy Winkett)
Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir has a mission to spread gospel music to non-Pentecostal churches. Lucy Winkett is a broadcaster, writer and rector of St James's Piccadilly.
Raising Lazarus presented by Kat Francois
Kat Francois is an award winning performance artist and playwright, the first ever BBC Poetry Slam Champion in 2004.
Kate Rusby
Of all the stars in folk music's wondrous firmament few shine as brightly as Yorkshire's Kate Rusby. A remarkable interpretive singer with a back catalogue spanning two decades, Kate's vocals...
Chibundu Onuzo
Nigerian novelist Chibundu is Faber and Faber's youngest ever female signing. Her first novel won a Betty Trask award.
Evita Too presented by Sh!t Theatre
A preview for Evita Too, a brand new future-cult musical from the multi award-winning Sh!t Theatre. Disco dictators Louise and Becca and their very well behaved Chorus of Interns bring you a show...
Michael Symmons Roberts
Michael Symmons Roberts is a multi-award winning poet, librettist, novelist and Professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Ann Pettifor
Sovereign debt expert Ann is director of the PRIME economics network and a member of Labour's Economic Advisory Committee.
This Evil Thing presented by Michael Mears
Michael Mears's extensive acting career includes being an award-winning performer of his own original solo plays for theatre and radio.
Wildwood Kin
The first thing that strikes you about the second album by Wildwood Kin, self-titled because it captures the band's artistic vision so completely, is just how natural it sounds. The voices of three...
Will Varley
Imagine the lovechild of Arlo Guthrie and Damien Rice, with a foul mouth and a head full of politics, and you might get some idea of Will Varley. A typical live show can feature heartbreaking ballads...
Bee Cart presented by Pif-Paf Theatre
Bee Cart presented by Pif-Paf Theatre Bee guides Bombus and Borage have left the hive with the bee cart – their mobile world of interaction and surreal but true information exploring all things...
SleepTalking
This young Bristol five-piece has bucketloads of grungy punk energy, a charismatic singer and a dark imagination: imagine Axl Rose fronting the Manic Street Preachers. They were discovered, playing...
Speech Debelle
Hip-hop artist Speech Debelle is a million miles from your stereotypical rapper in most respects apart from recognition: her emotionally vulnerable, introspective debut Speech Therapy won the 2009...