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HenryBest known as the man axed by BBC London for being “too intellectual”, Oxford graduate Henry has been a journalist since 1990, working as a staff researcher and producer on BBC radio and TV programmes like Today, World at One, Public Eye, and Black Britain. He became a freelance journalist and broadcaster in 1997, anchoring several programmes on BBC London 94.9FM, including Breakfast, Lunchtime, and Drivetime, interviewing leading politicians, businesspeople and a range of London personalities. Henry was also a popular panellist on Channel 5’s The Wright Stuff, and has appeared as a news commentator on Radio 5 Live and Sky News for several years.
Not so well known for his print journalism, he has nonetheless has written for the Times, Mail on Sunday, Daily Express, The Voice, New Nation, Pride Magazine, and the London Evening Standard. He is also UK correspondent for Black Entertainment Television, and presents regular discussion programmes on Press TV and Vox Africa.
JujuAn Actress for over 15 years Juanne Fuller (aka Juju) has appeared in some of the UK's most popular TV programmes, including Kavanagh QC, Brookside, Eastenders, and The Bill. Now an aspiring writer, she has already been published in the Daily Telegraph, the London Paper, New Nation and the First Post. Juju is currently working on her first script for an original TV drama.
Juju brings an element of danger to the studio, as her pampered ex BBC colleagues Calum and Bonsu never know what to expect especially when class warfare, Gaza, and Goody are on the agenda. Lately she's has formed an unlikely alliance with that other Breakfast firebrand Toby Kell-Ogg on the subject of Jade's treatment by the sneering middle classes. There may be trouble ahead...
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Calum Walker
A journalist for the last 13 years he's worked on a wide range of news and documentaries in radio and telly, hung out with government assassins and seen Tony Blair in his PJ's.
A Scot in exile in London, he's currently enjoying adding slightly ridiculous anecdotes to the breakfast programme and separating Henry and Juju with an unreasonable dose of reasonableness. He's also working at the BBC's Money Programme trying to explain how the nation got screwed by the banks. Henry thinks Calum is an ethical man - Calum is terrified of getting rumbled on air...
Christabel Nsiah-Buadi
US correspondent for Colourful Breakfast, Christabel Nsiah-Buadi is also the host of the show, 'Home, from Home' (www.hfhshow.com), which profiles stories from the Global Black Experience. The show is produced by her production company, My Lens Media (www.mylensmedia.com) and is currently broadcast on the Los Angeles-based station KPFK, and can be heard around the world, via www.hfhshow.com.
Christabel has worked both behind and in front of the mic. She has produced popular shows for some of the world's most famous broadcasters. As the Senior Supervising Producer for News and Notes on National Public Radio, America's equivalent of the BBC, she was responsible for setting that show's editorial direction. Under her tenure, the show became a 'go to' destination for African-American focused news, entertainment and analysis. In addition to Supervising production on this show, Christabel lent her talents to other news and talk shows, including 'Weekend All Things Considered' and 'Radio Nation with Laura Flanders'.
On air, Christabel has hosted segments for the popular BBC Radio 5 Live show, Up All Night and reported for the BBC TV series, LifeSchool. As the afternoon news anchor for Air America Radio News, Christabel became so popular that one fan wrote a song in her honour! She has reported from the devastated Gulf Coast for the network, following Hurricane Katrina, for Chuck D's late night talk show, 'On The Real', and reported from Ghana, when that nation celebrated it's 50th year of independence, in 2007.
Visit My Website Lindsay Johns
Lindsay Johns is a writer, broadcaster and cultural commentator.
He has written for The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, The Evening Standard and New Humanist magazine on socio-political and racial topics. Having had various features on BBC Radio 3’s Nightwaves and been featured in several Channel 5 history docs, his recent polemic against bling culture was a Channel 4 “Three Minute Wonder” in August 2008.
After reading French and Italian at Oxford, and a period of postgraduate work in medieval Latin philosophy in London, he is now the resident cultural critic on Colourful Radio.
A devotee of Dante and Shakespeare as much as of Beenie Man and Big Daddy Kane, Lindsay seeks to unite the academy and the street. His expertise lies in the fields of classical, medieval and Renaissance history and literature.
In his spare time he works as a volunteer mentor with young people on a leadership scheme in Peckham, South London.
An erudite but funky “Craig David with brains” for 2009 and beyond, relishing his ability to oscillate effortlessly between the classical canon and the contemporary cutting edge, Lindsay tells it like it is in his own inimitable way.