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WALES
Myfanwy Alexander is a writer and broadcaster, casting a satirical eye over life in Wales and beyond from her home in Montgomeryshire.
Cariad Lloyd is revered as one of the UK's best improvisers and created the award-winning comedy show Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel. She has worked on numerous comedy shows, notably starring opposite Sara Pascoe in Out Of Her Mind for the BBC, and recently in the Alan Carr biopic Changing Ends for ITV. She is the author of You Are Not Alone which reached no.7 in the Times bestseller list. She has been seen as herself on Have I Got News For You, QI, Celebrity Pointless and House of Games, where she won her Champion of Champions week. She has won a variety of awards for her podcast Griefcast, and recently launched the Weirdos' Book Club podcast with Sara Pascoe.
NORTHERN IRELAND
Paddy Duffy is a TV producer and broadcaster. He's a familiar voice on radio in his native Ulster and across Ireland, and is the author of two books on Irish politics and culture. His television work has ranged from the BBC's BAFTA-nominated documentary series Inside Obama's White House, to quiz shows such as University Challenge. Paddy is also a captain of the Irish international quiz squad.
Freya McClements is Northern Editor of The Irish Times and the co-author of the award-winning Children of the Troubles (2019). She was the captain of the team from Magdalen College, Oxford, which won University Challenge in 2004 and now also sets questions for other broadcast quizzes
ENGLAND
Jenny Ryan was born and raised in Bolton. A professional quizzer, she is well known as the ‘The Vixen’ on the TV Quiz Show The Chase and Beat the Chasers. She’s appeared on University Challenge, Only Connect and Mastermind and also worked as a researcher and writer for shows like the Weakest Link and QI. She co-hosts a quizzing podcast Fingers on Buzzers. She can also play the ukulele and showed off her singing chops on X-factor: Celebrity in 2019.
Stuart Maconie is one of Britain’s best known authors and broadcasters. He hosts The Freak Zone on BBC 6Music as well as a weekend show with Mark Radcliffe. His many non-fiction titles include Pies and Prejudice, Cider With Roadies, Adventures on the High Teas and Long Road From Jarrow: A journey through Britain Then and Now. His latest book is The Full English, a revisiting of J.B. Priestley’s classic English Journey. He is a life Vice-President of Ramblers.
SCOTLAND
Alan McCredie is a photographer and film-maker. He is the author of several books including 100 Weeks of Scotland, This Is Scotland and Scotland The Dreich. He has collaborated on many more, including Snapshot by Daniel Gray and My Scotland with his RBQ team-mate Val McDermid. He is also a guest lecturer in Photography at Edinburgh College. He is married with two children and is a Perthshire lad lost to the post-industrial wilds of Leith, which he is very happy about.
Val McDermid is a broadcaster and writer known as the queen of crime. A former journalist originally hailing from Kirkcaldy, her novels include The Skeleton Road, The Wire In The Blood, A Place of Execution and Broken Ground. Her Karen Pirie novels have now been adapted for a major ITV series, and her most recent bestseller is Past Lying, a Karen Pirie investigation.
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