Artistes of the Month
Also featured: Richard Keys, John Humphrys
Kelly Holmes
Kelly
Holmes victory in the Athens 800 and 1500 metres Olympic finals proved
one thing that her fans always knew: she's one of the most talented middle
distance runners Great Britian has ever had.
Olympic gold medalist Kelly is no stranger to the winner's stand with her bonze in Sydney and her Gold at the Commonwealth Games.
Injury has so often intervened to spoil Kelly's chances of the major prizes yet she has re motivated herself each time, never given up and with tenacity and self motivation has gone on to clinch two of the world's top Gold Medals.
Kelly is available for motivational Question and Answer sessions and will also consider suitable product endorsements and commercial opertunities.
Richard Keys
Richard
Keys continues to register more hours of live television annually than any
other presenter. He is best known as Sky Sports' highly regarded football
anchorman, but has also covered Grand Slam Tennis, World Championship Boxing,
The Open Golf, Snooker, Darts, Basketball, American Football and Motor Cycling.
He has appeared on every terrestrial television channel except one and has
presented over 1000 live football matches for Sky Sports.
At TV-am, he also co-hosted "Good Morning Britain" and stood in as presenter for "Frost on Sunday". Richard fronted Sky's "Final Countdown" coverage of the last days of Premiership Football in 1995, which won the "Best Live Sports Coverage" category at the Royal Society TV Awards.
Richard has also acted as host and MC for numerous conferences and awards
ceremonies as well as speaking at question and answer sessions and providing
voice-overs. Richard's hobbies include the theatre, travel and golf (handicap
of 22).
John
Humphrys
John
Humphrys was the first of the BBC`s Journalists to present front line
news programmes on both television and radio: "Today" on Radio
Four and Television News on BBC1. He also presents "On the Ropes"
and "The John Humphrys Interview" on Radio Four as well as Mastermind
on BBC2.
For Ten years he was a foreign correspondent with the BBC and over the
years he`s reported on most major international events, ranging from the
Watergate crisis and resignation of Richard Nixon to the first free elections
in South Africa and assorted wars in all parts of the globe. He was based
in Washington for six years (the youngest journalist ever to be appointed
as a foreign correspondent in BBC Television News) and in Southern Africa
for three years.
He began his career in newspapers and spent two years in Independent Television as a scriptwriter and reporter.
Humphrys became a controversial figure in March, 1995 when he was attacked by some leading Conservative Politicians, notably Jonathan Aitken. Aitken famously accused him of "poisoning the well of democratic debate" with his aggressive style. The BBC was swamped with letters and phone calls, the vast majority of which supported Humphrys. Many other Politicians and public figures from all parties rose to his defence, as did newspapers of all persuasions. The Daily Mail described him in an editorial as "one of the most brilliant journalists in the country" and the Express ran a column demanding "Humphrys for Prime Minister". It concluded: "Politics would be richer, but the BBC would probably close down through lack of interest".
John has owned a dairy farm and made a brave, if not wholly successful, attempt to turn it into an organic operation. He chairs conferences on every subject under the sun. In his spare time he tries to play the cello and conducts a one-man crusade to rescue the English language from those who are corrupting it with Americanised jargon. He admits failure on both fronts…. but he`s not giving up.
John has worked for numerous companies and has recently worked for the British Dental Association, Caspian Publishing, and Derby Evening Telegraph.
"...the debate worked really well, John made it into a very stimulating
discussion from which we have received some excellent feedback"
Leapfrog Medical on John Humphrys who chaired a debate on Epilepsy
in June 2006
...John was a hit with our customers. He received plenty of laughs
and grabbed the attention of his audience, hence the amount of questions
that were thrown his way...
Matt Potter, Royal Sun Alliance on John Humphrys who spoke at a series
of their customer workshops in May 2005
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