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Tim Marshall is an authority on foreign affairs with more than 30 years of reporting experience. He was Diplomatic Editor at Sky News, and before that worked for the BBC and LBC/IRN radio. He has reported from 40 countries and covered conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Israel.

Tim is the author of the bestsellers Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps that Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (2015) and The Power of Geography: Ten Maps that Reveal the Future of Our World (2021). Prisoners of Geography has been translated into xxx languages; a fully updated edition was publised in xxx.

David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, author, presenter, and BAFTA winning film-maker. He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester, writes for The Observer, The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Voice, and BBC History Magazine, and is the author of several books including the critically acclaimed Black and British: A Forgotten History (2016).

In 2019, David was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to history and community integration. He is also a recipient of the BAFTA Special Award (2023), the British Academy's Presidents Medal (2021) and the Norton Medlicott Medal For Services to History (2022).

Emma Jane Unsworth is a BAFTA-nominated screenwriter and bestselling novelist. She has written episodes for popular TV programmes including The Buccaneers (Apple/The Forge, 2023) and Stephen Merchant’s The Outlaws (BBC/Amazon, 2021).

Emma is currently developing several of her own TV projects as well as writing a film and a musical. In 2019 she adapted her novel Animals into a film directed by Sophie Hyde, which premiered at the Sundance Festival. Emma won a British Independent Film Award (BIFA) for her script.

Emma’s second novel Adults (2020) was an instant Sunday Times bestseller. Her latest novel Slags (2025), a critically acclaimed success, is a frank and heartfelt exploration of sisterhood and a trip around Scotland in a camper van.

Jerry Brotton has been writing about history and cartography for over twenty years. He is a prize-winning presenter, curator, and a best-selling author.

Jerry’s books include Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World (1997), New York Times bestseller A History of the World in Twelve Maps (2012), Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained (2014), and Waterstone's Non-Fiction Book of the Year This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World (2016), and most recently The Four Points of the Compass: the Unexpected History of Direction (2024).

Jerry won Bronze at the Audio Producers Association Awards 2025, in the Best Presenter category sponsored by Everybody Media.

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