Sathnam Sanghera

Sathnam Sanghera was born to Punjabi immigrant parents in Wolverhampton in 1976. He entered the education system unable to speak English but went on to graduate from Christ’s College, Cambridge with a first class degree in English Language and Literature. He has been shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards twice, for his memoir The Boy With The Topknot and his novel Marriage Material. Empireland has been longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non- Fiction, was named a Book of the Year at the National Book Awards of 2022, and inspired both the Channel 4 series Empire State of Mind and Sanghera’s children’s book about the British empire Stolen History. He lives in London.

Peter Frankopan

Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, published by Bloomsbury in 2015, was a No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller and remained in the top 10 for nine months after publication. It was named one of the ‘Books of the Decade’ 2010-2020 by the Sunday Times. The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World was published by Bloomsbury in 2018 and won the Human Sciences prize of the Carical Foundation in 2019.

Hannah MacInnes

Krishnan Guru-Murthy

Krishnan is the main anchor of Channel 4 News, presenting the channel’s flagship evening news at 7pm as well as the midday summary. He also presents for the foreign affairs series Unreported World on Channel 4, reporting on stories from around the world, hosting live debates for Channel 4 during elections, referendums and major crises. In 2024, he lead C4’s live commentary of the opening and closing ceremonies for the Paris Paralympics Games and previously the Sochi Winter Paralympic Games in 2014. He also presents the Channel 4 News’ podcast Ways to Change the World. In 2024, Krishnan fronted the C4 General Election special alongside Emily Maitlis, Alastair Campbell, Rory Stewart, Hannah Fry and Cathy Newman. He anchored Ch4’s US Election coverage from Washington, their first in 32 years.

Tony Robinson

Over the last few decades Tony Robinson has emerged as Britain’s foremost face of popular history, the creator of a worldwide comedy icon, and an award winning writer of children’s books and television. Tony presented twenty seasons of Channel 4’s archaeology series “Time Team”, and played Baldrick in “Blackadder”. He wrote the BBC’s “Maid Marian and Her Merry Men” in which he played the Sheriff of Nottingham, made two series of “The Worst Jobs In History”, three series of “Walking Through History”, and an acclaimed documentary about the elderly entitled “Me and My Mum”.