Adam Sweeting has written about rock and classical music for The Guardian, the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph, and contributes to a variety of other publications including Classic FM magazine, Uncut, Motorsport and British Airways Business Life. His book Cover Versions – Singing Other People’s Songs was published by Pimlico in 2004. He is a founding member of the arts website, www.theartsdesk.com, for which he coordinates TV coverage. With the Virtual Television Company (VTVC), he was writer/producer on the Channel 4 series Mr Rock and Roll, comprising  profiles of four influential rock managers, and on the definitive portrait of Luciano Pavarotti, The Last Tenor, shown in BBC2’s Arena series in 2004.

Francis Hanly is an award-winning producer/director of documentaries. Winner of the prestigious RTS award for his programme on Lennon & McCartney (which was also nominated for a BAFTA) he has been making critically acclaimed documentaries for 15 years. He recently shot and directed a 90 minute portrait of the last year of Luciano Pavarotti’s career as an opera singer (The Last Tenor). He has worked with on-screen talent as varied as Jonathan Meades, Boris Johnson, Simon Schama and Howard Goodall. He was also responsible for two series of the cult classic ‘Rock Family Trees’ and ‘Mr Rock and Roll’ which profiled some of the most notorious managers in the history of rock. Watch his showreel.

Benjamin Woolley is a writer and Emmy-award-winning broadcaster. His writing includes Savage Kingdom, about Britain's first colony in North America, published in both the US and the UK by HarperCollins to critical acclaim, and The Queen's Conjuror, about Queen Elizabeth I's astrologer Dr John Dee, which was a Sunday Times Top-10 best-seller, and The Herbalist, about the English Civil War radical Nicholas Culpeper, which was serialised on BBC Radio 4. His most recent TV work is as writer and presenter of the three-part documentary Games Britannia, a history of the British told through the games we play, first broadcast on BBC Four in December, 2009.