Sian Mary Williams (born 28 November 1964; "Sian", pronounced [ˈʃɑn]) is a British journalist and current affairs presenter. From 2005 to March 2012, she was a co-presenter of BBC Breakfast on Mondays to Thursdays alongside Bill Turnbull. Williams regularly presented the News at Six and occasionally presented the News at One and the News at Ten.

Williams was born in Paddington, London, to Welsh parents, and raised in Eastbourne, East Sussex. Her mother, Katherine Rees from Llanelli, had moved to London to become a nurse. Williams' father was from Swansea, and his family had been farmers in Glamorgan, south Wales. She gained a BA in English and History from Oxford Polytechnic (now Oxford Brookes University), and was also a student of Japanese and international business at Liverpool John Moores University.

Prior to her career in television journalism, Williams spent over a decade with BBC Radio after joining the corporation in 1985. She worked on BBC Local Radio in Sheffield, Leeds and Manchester before becoming a producer and reporter in Liverpool, and later joining a national spoken word network, BBC Radio 4, as a producer on The World at One and PM programmes. Williams spent the next few years reporting and editing news programmes on the station, and also on BBC Radio 5 Live.

Susanna Reid (born 10 December 1970) is an English journalist and presenter, best known for presenting BBC Breakfast.

The youngest of three children, Reid was born in Croydon, South London to an English father who worked as a management consultant, of Scottish ancestry, and an English mother who worked as a nurse. Her parents separated and divorced when she was aged 9.

Reid was educated at the independent Croham Hurst School, Croydon from 1975–81, where comedienne Sue Perkins was amongst her classmates, followed by the independent Croydon High School (1981–87) and St Paul's Girls' School (1987–89) in London. Reid studied Politics, Philosophy and Law at the University of Bristol (1989–92), where she was editor of EpiGram, the university's student newspaper, when it was shortlisted for Best Student Newspaper in the 1991 The Guardian/NUS student journalism awards. She then undertook a Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism from the Cardiff School of Journalism.

Reid started her career at BBC Radio Bristol and then become a reporter for Radio 5 Live, as well as latterly a producer.

Sophie Jane Raworth (born 15 May 1968) is an English newsreader and journalist who works for British broadcaster the BBC. She is the main presenter of the BBC News at One, presenting Tuesday to Friday, and regularly appears on the BBC News at Six and occasionally on BBC News at Ten.

Born in Surrey to a florist mother and a businessman father, Raworth was brought up in Twickenham,^{[citation needed]} south west London and attended the independent Putney High School and St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith. After completing a degree in French and German at the University of Manchester, Raworth spent a year teaching English to teenagers in Toulouse before studying for a postgraduate course in broadcasting and journalism at City University London.

Raworth joined the BBC in 1992 as a news reporter, first for Greater Manchester Radio and then as BBC Regions correspondent in Brussels in April 1994. In May 1995, she became the regular joint presenter of BBC's Look North programme in Leeds, moving to BBC Breakfast News in 1997.

Emily Maitlis (born 6 September 1970) is a British journalist and newsreader, currently employed by the BBC. She presents news programming across the network, including Newsnight and bulletins on BBC One and the BBC News Channel.

Raised in Sheffield, she was educated at the local King Edward VII School. A graduate of Queens' College, Cambridge, she speaks fluent Spanish, English, Italian and French, and some Mandarin. Prior to working in news, she was a documentary maker in Cambodia and China. She worked for the NBC network and was based in Hong Kong.

Previously, she spent six years with NBC Asia, initially as a business reporter creating documentaries, and then as a presenter in Hong Kong covering the collapse of the tiger economies in 1997. She also covered the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong with Jon Snow for Channel 4. She then moved to Sky News in the UK as a business correspondent, and then to BBC London News when the programme was re-launched in 2001.

Maitlis is now one of the main presenters of Newsnight on BBC Two, with Jeremy Paxman, Kirsty Wark and Gavin Esler. She also presents regular relief shifts on the BBC News at One, the BBC News at Five the BBC News Channel, and relief presents the Sunday evening editions of the BBC Weekend News on BBC One. Maitlis was a regular presenter on BBC News during 2006, joining as part of a new line-up in April to present alongside Ben Brown from 7-10pm during the week, but was replaced by Joanna Gosling when she went on maternity leave.

Reginald Darnell Hunter (born March 26, 1969) is an American stand-up comedian who is now based in the United Kingdom.

Having initially traveled to the UK at the age of 27 as a classic theater student training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Hunter became a comedian after performing his first comedy set as a dare. For this set, he received £10. Realizing he enjoyed it, and there was money in it, Hunter diverted his attention from his acting ambitions and re-focused on stand-up.

He often deals in his stand-up about issues regarding race that he feels important.^{[citation needed]} Part of that is an attempt to reclaim the word "Nigga".^{[citation needed]} He often uses the term in the titles of his shows; the title of his stand-up show, Reginald D Hunter: Pride & Prejudice... & Niggas attracted some controversy, and the poster was banned from the London Underground. Likewise his tour with Steve Hughes, called Trophy Nigga, played 55 venues around the UK, yet not all the venues could he use the tour title. He joked it was because promoters didn't like the word, 'Trophy'.