Robyn Dwyer is a global news anchor and international broadcaster. With more than two decades in television and radio, Robyn has worked for some of the world’s best known broadcasters including the BBC and ITN, specialising in business news.
Now a presenter for CGTN, she anchors live news programmes as well as documentaries, and fronts special events.
As an event host and moderator she has chaired debates and conferences around the world, focusing on finance, energy, retail, sustainability and the environment.
She often interviews political leaders, bankers and environmental stakeholders.
And in the course of her career in business news she has interviewed CEOs from Richard Branson to the head of Citroen.
Fluent in French, Robyn’s career has seen her work in Istanbul, Paris, Sydney and London. A focus on American politics led to her conceiving and presenting a programme on the US elections for TRT World.
Her international news experience also saw her presenting world news for Sky and she has been an Anchor for TalkTV on their flagship evening news programme.
Robyn Dwyer has also worked for some of the biggest names in radio. She has presented the news for Classic FM, Magic Radio, Smooth Radio, and Absolute Radio.
Robyn Dwyer has covered business for LBC and Share Radio, where she presented a live magazine programme.
Robyn Dwyer also puts her voice to work as a voiceover artist.
Anila Dhami is a multi-award-winning Presenter and Journalist who has worked for some of the biggest media companies over her ten-year career. She is currently a Presenter and Reporter for ITV News, ITV News London, C5 News, and LBC.
As a news reporter, she has covered major events such as Brexit, the General Election, Grenfell, and the Westminster terror attack. She has hosted live debates on pressing issues and interviewed a wide range of influential individuals, including MPs, experts, celebrities, and everyday people with inspiring stories.
Anila Dhami is driven by her commitment to creating a well-informed electorate, advancing gender equality, and contributing to the betterment of society. Her passion for thoughtful and impactful storytelling is evident in her innovative and thought-provoking content, where she addresses the questions that matter most and amplifies underrepresented voices.
Unphased by celebrity status, Anila has interviewed high-profile figures such as Will Smith, Rose McGowan, Boris Becker, Lizzy Cundy, Amir Khan, and John Snow.
Anila Dhami is a strong advocate for societal improvement. She supports charities addressing mental health, poverty, and education. She is particularly invested in empowering future generations through women in leadership talks and mentoring media students, equipping them with essential skills and a solid foundation to influence and shape society positively.
Polly James was born in Cardiff, Wales and is a Welsh radio and television presenter. She has presented for Absolute Radio, Radio X, and Capital South Wales. She has been a television sports broadcaster, covering darts for Sky Sports, as well as the Late Night Football Club, BBC One’s chat show for the duration of Wales’ participation in the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Polly James starting broadcasting in community radio stations like Afan FM, and Bridge FM. After working for Nation Radio Wales, she presented an overnight show on Absolute Radio in the early 2010’s, moving to Capital South Wales in 2013. During Capital’s restructuring in 2019, her Capital South Wales breakfast show (with Matt Lissack) was cancelled and she moved to Radio X. It was later nominated for Breakfast Show of the year.
Polly James presented for Radio X Friday and Saturday nights in 2019. She has covered darts, rugby, football and boxing as a sports broadcaster, and presented for Unibet on social media.
Sonali Shah is a British television and radio broadcaster who currently presents Sunday Breakfast on Magic Radio as well as BBC television programme Escape to the Country, ITV’s Tonight and has her own segment on Channel 4’s Steph’s Packed Lunch.
Sonali Shah is well known for presenting the BBC’s children’s news programme Newsround from July 2006 until November 2011. Some other notable programmes Sonali Shah has presented are The National Lottery Draws, Crimewatch and Watchdog.
Aiming for a career in medicine, Sonali Shah began presenting on the local hospital radio. After university, in early 2002 she joined BBC World Service as a producer, also presenting on World Business Report and The World Today. In 2002, she moved to BBC Radio 5 Live as launch producer for Jeff Randall’s Weekend Business, which won a Sony Radio Award. She then began reporting for Weekend Business, as well as Wake Up to Money and 5 live Money.
Hannah Fry is a British mathematician, author and broadcaster. She is Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, a fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge, and president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. She was previously a professor at University College London.
Hannah Fry began performing stand-up comedy in 2015, leading to a TED Talk and television work. Since then, she has regularly appeared on mainstream media in the UK, including regular appearances in The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry, with Adam Rutherford, on BBC Radio 4. From series 22, in September 2024, Dara Ó Briain took over from Rutherford as co-presenter of Curious Cases.
In 2015, she presented a BBC Four film biography of computing pioneer Ada Lovelace. The following year, she co-presented Trainspotting Live with Peter Snow, a three-part series about trains and trainspotting, for the same channel. In the BBC Two series City in the Sky Hannah Fry studied the logistics of aviation. She hosted The Joy of Data on BBC Four, which examines the history and human impact of data. A further credit for 2016 was her co-hosting an episode of the BBC Two Horizon series with Dr Xand van Tulleken, titled How to Find Love Online.
In 2018, Hannah Fry presented Contagion! The BBC Four Pandemic, about the possible impact of a flu pandemic, in which she said “we are about to simulate the outbreak of a fatal contagion throughout the UK if I can succeed this will save lives when, not if, a real pandemic hits.” The programme used Haslemere, Surrey, as the site of the first simulated infection, and coincidentally in February 2020 the town saw the first recorded case of a person contracting COVID-19 from within the UK. She later hosted a one-off 90-minute special of the BBC science programme Tomorrow’s World alongside four of the show’s previous presenters: Maggie Philbin, Howard Stableford, Judith Hann and Peter Snow.
In 2019, Hannah Fry presented a BBC Four programme titled A Day in the Life of Earth which explored how Earth changes in a single day and how these daily changes are essential to human existence. She presented the 2019 edition of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, entitled Secrets and lies, on the hidden numbers, rules and patterns that control daily lives, being only the fourth ever mathematician to deliver the lectures. They were broadcast on BBC Four.
Hannah Fry co-presented 2020’s The Great British Intelligence Test on BBC Two. She has presented further programmes for the BBC explaining the mathematics behind COVID-19 and other pandemics. She was the guest interviewee on The Life Scientific on BBC Radio 4 in 2021, and has appeared on Have I Got News for You.
In July 2022, she presented the BBC Two documentary Unvaccinated, in which she investigated why a portion of the British population remained unvaccinated against COVID-19. Reviewing in The Daily Telegraph, Anita Singh described the show as patronising, commenting that Hannah Fry’s attempt to explain statistics using “jelly-bean roulette” treated the unvaccinated people who chose to appear in the show like “six-year-olds”. Jack Seale for The Guardian wrote that “Hannah Fry needs some reward for a documentary that requires a near-saintly level of tolerance just to watch, never mind present”.
Hannah Fry began a six-part series in 2022 on BBC Two, The Secret Genius Of Modern Life, in which she investigates topics such as how credit cards came into being, their manufacture and how they work, and potential future developments. The BBC commissioned a second six-part series, again presented by Hannah Fry and first broadcast in November 2023. One episode showed secrets of producing the British passport, including a factory where they are produced, and criticised electronic gates at airports. She presented multiple episodes of The Future With Hannah Fry on Bloomberg Originals, beginning in March 2023. Later that year, Radio Four started to broadcast Uncharted with Hannah Fry, a series of 15 minute documentaries about graphs.
Hannah Fry acted as the ‘chief number cruncher’ for Channel 4’s coverage of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, analysing results data as it came in overnight. She correctly predicted the Labour Party would win, but cautioned the party that they should “dampen their expectations”.
Danielle Jalowiecka is a British radio presenter, musician, newsreader and continuity announcer. She is a continuity announcer at BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 3, a newsreader at the BBC World Service and BBC Radio 3, a presenter at BBC Radio 3 and a professional recorder player.
In 2008, Danielle Jalowiecka obtained the runner-up place in the Performing Australian Music competition.
Also in 2008, Danielle Jalowiecka started playing as part of the iFlautisti quartet, a new self-formed quartet which featured Danielle Jalowiecka and three other women. As of 2011, a high level of originality was present in the group’s performances. In 2011, they performed the world premiere of a work at the Czech Embassy in London.
Prior to being a continuity announcer at BBC Radio 3, a role which she started in 2018/2019, Danielle Jalowiecka toured Europe and the United Kingdom as part of a recorder quartet, with her quartet’s work being broadcast on three BBC radio stations, and also commissioned musical works. Danielle Jalowiecka began presenting concerts for BBC Radio 3 in 2019 and began presenting the station’s Through The Night programme in November 2022. She also reads the news and presents the weather on BBC Radio 3’s Breakfast programme.
Danielle Jalowiecka moved to also working at BBC Radio 4 subsequent to beginning working at BBC Radio 3. Her role at BBC Radio 4 also involves presentation of the 12:48AM Shipping Forecast and newsreading on BBC Radio 3, and has in the past involved the presentation of a weather forecast and Shipping Forecast, and the reading of a short news bulletin, on the station’s longwave feed.
In the late 2010s, Danielle Jalowiecka was an interviewer/reporter for the BBC World Service. As of January 2025, Danielle Jalowiecka has for several years read news bulletins on the BBC World Service’s English-language service; this role also involves some continuity announcing for the station.
Maya Indea Jama is a British television presenter and radio DJ. Maya Jama co-presented BBC One’s Peter Crouch: Save Our Summer alongside Peter Crouch and Alex Horne and was the presenter of the BBC Three competition Glow Up: Britain’s Next Make-Up Star for the third and fourth series and ITV2’s dating series Love Island from series 9.
Maya Jama co-presented Trending Live! on 4Music from 2015 until 2017, Cannonball on ITV in 2017, the MTV show True Love or True Lies in 2018, and the first series of The Circle with Alice Levine on Channel 4. In radio, Maya Jama hosted #DriveWithMaya on Rinse FM from 2014 to 2017, and co-presented Radio 1’s Greatest Hits and presented her eponymous show, Maya Jama on BBC Radio 1 from 2018 to 2020. In 2023, Maya Jama took over as the host of the ITV2 dating reality series Love Island.
Kelly Elizabeth Somers is a British sports presenter and reporter, and a regular contributor to football coverage on radio and television in the UK. Among her presenting credits are appearances on the BBC, Talksport, Premier League Productions (PLP) and Optus Sport. On the BBC she has appeared on programmes such as Final Score, where she provides English Football League coverage alongside Mark Clemmit and Match of the Day. She can also be seen presenting Premier League Football coverage for Amazon Prime.
Kelly Somers has worked for a number of media outlets, including the BBC and Talksport. In 2018 she presented coverage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup for Optus Sport, and in 2019 presented the BBC’s coverage of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which required many activities, including football, to cease for a while, she was part of the reporting team to cover one of the first matches to be played when football was allowed to resume in June 2020. The game, which saw Bournemouth take on Crystal Palace, was also the first Premier League match to be shown live on BBC television, and the first top-level match to be aired by BBC television since 1988. In August 2020, she became the sixth woman to present an edition of Match of the Day when she provided coverage of the 2020 FA Community Shield, and in 2019 presented the BBC’s coverage of the 2019 PDC World Darts Championship. She is also a regular presenter on BBC One’s The Women’s Football Show and Football Focus. Her other BBC roles have included providing coverage of England’s progress during UEFA Euro 2020, and the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
In June 2022, Kelly Somers became part of the reporting team for Channel 4’s coverage of the UEFA Nations League.
On 11 March 2023, Kelly Somers was one of several sports presenters working for the BBC who announced they would not appear on air following the BBC’s decision to remove Gary Lineker from Match of the Day after controversial comments he made about the UK government’s Illegal Migration Bill. It had initially been reported Kelly Somers would stand in for Alex Scott on Football Focus, but Kelly Somers subsequently announced she would not present the programme.
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