Artistes of the Month
Also featured:
Nick
Leeson, Justin
Webb
Richard Hammond
Richard
Hammond, (born December 19, 1969), is an award winning British television
presenter best known for co-presenting Top Gear from 2002 onwards.
Earlier in his career he worked at Radio York and Radio Cumbria, and then
moved onto various TV projects with various channels. Along with his work
on Top Gear he has also presented Brainiac: Science Abuse on Sky One,
and Should I Worry About...? for the BBC, together with Time Commanders.
He also has a weekly motoring column in the Daily Mirror.
Originally from the West Midlands, in the mid 1980s Hammond moved with
his family to the Yorkshire market town of Ripon. He now lives near Cheltenham
with his wife and two young daughters. He also has three horses, four
dogs, two cats, a rabbit and handful of chickens and sheep along with
an eclectic collection of vehicles, including numerous Land Rovers, Porsches,
and even a Dukes of Hazard style Charger (it isn't painted orange though...yet)!
In July 2005, Hammond won the dubious accolade of being voted number one
in a Heat magazine poll of the top "weird celebrity crushes".
In 2006 Richard survived an horrendous crash whilst filming for Top Gear. He was attampting to create a new land speed record when his car blew a tyre. Many thought he would not return but he made a spectacular recovery and the film of the crash was part of the show broadcast in January 2007.
He has channelled his talents into the corporate market as well for such
clients as Cisco Systems, Meguiars and Renault Sport.
Nick
Leeson
The
collapse of Barings, and Nick Leeson’s role in it, is one of the
most spectacular debacles in modern financial history
How could one trader bring down the banking empire that had funded the Napoleonic Wars?
Nick Leeson, the young gambler who found himself sucked into a terrifying spiral of loss was a working-class boy who lived high in an upper-class world until his unchecked gambling caused the downfall of Barings, the banker to the Queen and caused chaos in the Singaporean money market.
Markets have always been cruel, but rarely have they been so cruel so swiftly — and on such a grand scale.
Nick talks candidly about what happened, the lack of accounting safeguards, his capture and confinement for nine months in a Frankfort prison and being sentenced to 6 ½ years by the Singapore court for forgery and cheating.
He also talks about being diagnosed with cancer and his fight against it.
In the aftermath of the AIB trading scandal in New York, and the collapse of Enron and Worldcom, Nick provides a fascinating insight into the continuing failures of senior and middle management at large corporations who still fail to protect shareholders and customers.
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here for Nick's showreel which can be found on the video page
Justin
Webb
Justin
Webb is one of BBC TV's top presenters. He first came to prominence on
weekday mornings between 6.30am and 9.00am anchoring the flagship current
affairs programme "Breakfast News", interviewing everyone from
the Prime Minister to top sportsmen and women.
Justin began his TV and radio career in 1986, when he worked in Northern Ireland before moving to London to work on Radio Four's "Today" programme. Justin them moved to BBC Television to work firstly as a reporter and then as a Foreign Affairs Correspondent. During this time he was dispatched to report from cities such as Washington, Moscow and Jerusalem. He was based in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War and has also worked in Bosnia.
Justin went onto presenting the main BBC TV News at the weekends as well as Radio 4's The World Tonight. In July 1999 he took up an appointment as Europe Correspondent for the BBC and was based in Brussels until August 2002.
Justin is now based in Washington, and is the BBC's main US corespondent. He also presents regular pieces for CNN USA edition, and his BBC pieces are often syndicated across the networks.
Justin's experience of handling a live television programme and interviewing key people, ensuring he gets to the heart of the story, makes him an obvious choice for hosting corporate seminars and making keynote speeches.
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here for Justin's showreel which can be found on the video page
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