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Also featured: Iain Carter, Professor Maxwell Hutchinson

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Dean Andrews

With his good looks and charisma, he is a sure fire hit on the PA & After Dinner market and is available for meet/greets, Q&A, Product Launches etc…

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Iain Carter

Iain Carter has been BBC Radio's golf correspondent since 2003. He can be heard on Radio Five Live as the lead commentator at all of the major golf championships around the world, including the Open, Masters and Ryder Cup.
Iain's work brings him into regular contact with many of the world's leading golfers including Tiger Woods and Colin Montgomerie.

In the five years prior to taking up the golf job, Iain was the BBC's Tennis Correspondent and he continues to commentate at Wimbledon.

Iain has spoken at various charity golf days, has interviewed leading golfers like Nick Faldo at tournament sponsor welcome dinners and spoke at the Golf Course Managers' Association Conference at the The Belfry.

He has a fund of stories from nearly twenty years covering sport for the BBC. Iain's career began at Radio Leicester before moving to the BBC World Service where he toured the Caribbean and Southern Africa covering cricket. His first rugby union commentary was the small matter of the 1995 World Cup final to en estimated audience of 120 million! He still commentates on rugby during the Six Nations and World Cups.

After joining Radio Five Live, Iain covered Damon Hill's Formula One world championship victory in 1996 before moving on to tennis and golf. He lives in Surrey and spends his leisure time trying to cling on to a single figure handicap.

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Professor Maxwell Hutchinson

Maxwell Hutchinson was President of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1989 to 1991. He is a practising architect and regular radio and television broadcaster. In the year 2000, he was runner up for the BT Regional News Presenter of the Year Award. He has two weekly features on BBC London 94.9FM covering London's architecture, landmarks and "Lost London", which is broadcast live from the streets and covers London's history. Until recently, he also had a regular feature on BBC London News, "The Max Files", which ran for over five years, covering areas of hidden London in detail. He is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's "You and Yours", "5 Live", "Late Night Live" and BBC2's "Newsnight". He also contributes to various programmes on LBC radio and more recently; he worked on the production team of the Bafta award-winning Radio 4 play "The Dark House".

Amongst his credits, he has written and presented three series (90 x 30 minute programmes) for Discovery TV on architecture, engineering and science ("Prefabs and Palaces", "Mod Cons" and "Pure Inventions") as well as two half- hour programmes, "First Sight", for BBC2 covering "Glass Houses" and the "London Skyline". His fourth series for BBC Radio 4, "Let There Be Light", transmitted in June 2001 and he has been part of the BBC1 'live' commentary team for the Lord Mayor's Show for four consecutive years. He was also part of the BBC team for "Children In Need" and presented 'live' from Piccadilly Circus. He has also presented 2 x 60 programmes "Demolition Detectives", which transmitted on Channel 4 television in October 2002 and again in August 2004. Maxwell also wrote and presented the 6 x 60 series "No 57, The History of A House" covering the social history of a Georgian House over a 200-year span up to and including the present day. (TX July and August 2003 on Channel 4

Other credits: Maxwell has contributed to "The Good, The Bad and The Listed", which transmitted on Carlton television in February 2004, and more recently he presented a 6 x 30 series, "Hidden Treasures", for Anglia TV which aired in the spring of 2004. Other contributions include BBC "Restoration Nation" (TX July 2004 on BBC4/BBC2) and he continues to contribute regularly to BBC London "Inside Out" for BBC 1. He is contributing to BBC "Songs of Praise" and has recently completed writing and presenting a one-hour historical documentary on "Eleanor of Castile (1290)" for Channel Five (TX' July '05) as well as writing and presenting a 8 x 30 series for BBC 2, "How To Rescue a House" (looking at the history of derelict houses) for TX in October 2005. He has also contributed to the book which accompanies the series. In between his busy broadcasting schedule, he is developing a number of historical projects for both television and publishing. He is thoroughly enjoying writing his first fictional novel, 'The Apprentice of Roslyn', the intriguing truth behind the 15th Century Chapel in Scotland.

His better-known buildings include Skylines on the Isle of Dogs, JS Pathology's Headquarters at Camden Lock, Aztec Row in Islington and the Pink Floyd's recording studio in Britannia Row. For ten years he was Chairman of the Permarock Group of Building Product Manufacturing Companies, of which he was a founder. He was a visiting Professor at the University of Westminster and previously at the Universities of Nottingham and Queens Belfast. His book The Prince of Wales Right or Wrong - An Architect Replies was a best-seller (Faber & Faber).

Maxwell is a versatile and humorous speaker and provides highly constructive motivational talks for a wide variety of clients. Amongst his credits he has chaired the "Corus Construction Awards" and a plenary session at the CBI conference in Birmingham, and was the guest speaker for Landor Conferences 'When Old Buildings Get In The Way'. He is a regular speaker for regional RIBA events and The Museum of London. He has hosted numerous events including "The Timber Trade Journal Awards" at the Savoy Hotel in London, and has acted as a keynote speaker for The Arts Council South East Conference and The Building Research Establishment Limited. More recently, Maxwell acted as keynote speaker and facilitator at a seminar for Rockwool Limited, and presented the Formica corporate video produced in association with the launch of the new Formica Collection and their 90th Anniversary (2004). In October 2004 he was the architectural guest speaker aboard a Mediterranean P&O Cruise. Maxwell also provides his services as a guest speaker for The Hilton Group Special Events; previous talks have included "The Panorama of Architectural History" and more recently "The London History Experience", which is now in its third year.

Apart from his work, he enjoys composing music, and playing the piano and the guitar. He is also featured in "Who's Who" and "Debretts".

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