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Maurice Baring was born in Mayfair in 1874 and educated at Eton and Cambridge. A talent for languages led him into diplomatic service in Paris, Copenhagen and Rome. He resigned in 1904 but continued to travel, as a newspaper correspondent, to Russia, Manchuria, Turkey and the Balkans.

Mike Gunn

Philip Pullman
The Lord of Dust, creator of daemons and spinner of the finest fairy tales, Philip Pullman is one of the world’s greatest and most influential storytellers.

Nicholas Bowling
Nick Bowling is an author, musician, stand-up comic and Latin teacher from Oxford.
Ben Weatherill has been nominated for The Times Breakthrough Award at the Sky Arts Awards
Ben Weatherill has been nominated for The Times Breakthrough Award at the Sky Arts Awar

Laura Dockrill
Laura Dockrill is an award-winning children’s author, illustrator, script-writer and performance poet who has been shortlisted for the Waterstones’ Book of the Year prize and has twice been nominated for the Carnegie Medal. She is a poet-in-residence for Radio 1.

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Georgia Hirst
Georgia played the series regular role of Torvi in the hit show VIKINGS.
She also played the lead role in RAVERS, an independent comedy feature film with Danny Kirrane and Eve Connelly.