Dave Lewis
An alumni of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Dave Lewis has played and recorded with John Martyn, Lamont Dozier, Jim Mullen, Bryan Ferry, Joan Armatrading, Tommy Chase, John Mayall, Eric Clapton and the Blockheads. He now leads his own hard grooving ensemble, 1Up. Image © Shawn Pearce Photography
Chris Cobbson
Guitarist Chris ‘Santo’ Cobbson was born in Ghana and grew up in West London. He is a prolific songwriter and arranger, and is currently working on both his debut solo album and an original musical. Image © Shawn Pearce Photography
Sophie Alloway
Sophie Alloway is hugely in demand on the London jazz scene where she has played with the likes of Jason Rebello, Mornington Lockett, Yazz Ahmed, George Melly, Shez Raja, Vimala Rowe, Geoff Eales, Nigel Price, Tony Kofi and US actor/comedian Jason Kravits, among many others. Image © Shawn Pearce Photography
Carole Berman
Carole Berman was born in London and worked for Sotheby’s in London and New York, later studying History of Art at University College, London, then Fine Art at Chelsea and Wimbledon Schools of Art. She chaired the Ben Uri Art Committee between 1992 and 1995. Her solo exhibitions include Shamanic Heads (1995), The Mystery of […]
Linda Dangoor
Linda Dangoor is a designer, painter and ceramicist and now a food writer. She was born in Baghdad and came to the UK in the early 1960s. A graduate of the Central School of Art and Design, she has worked in the design field for many years, specialising in stationery, greeting cards and other products […]
Mikhl Yashinsky
Mikhl Yashinsky is a translator, playwright-lyricist, singer-actor, and teacher in New York City. He was born in Detroit and graduated with a degree in European history and literature from Harvard. His translation of Ester-Rokhl Kaminska’ s memoirs, The Mother of Yiddish Theatre, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury. He has taught Yiddish at Columbia, the University of Michigan, […]
David Mazower
David Mazower is the research bibliographer and editorial director at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. He is the chief curator of the Center’s permanent exhibition, Yiddish: A Global Culture and the author of the newly published book and catalogue, Yiddish: A Global Culture: Bold Lives, Boundless Creativity. Before joining the Center, he was a senior staff journalist with […]
Jonathan Romain
Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain MBE is a Rabbi, writer and broadcaster, and was previously Chair of Dignity in Dying. He is regularly heard on the BBC, and his many books include Confessions of a Rabbi (2017).
Michael Gove
Michael Gove is the Editor of The Spectator. As the former Member of Parliament for Surrey Heath and UK Government Cabinet Minister, he served in Cabinet across five government departments for more than a decade, from the 2010 Coalition government onwards. Image © House of Lords photography by Roger Harris
Jennifer Langer
Jennifer Langer is a poet, editor and founding director of Exiled Writers Ink, the organisation working with refugee and migrant writers.Her poetry collection The Search explores the complexity of her German Jewish English identity. She has edited five anthologies of exiled literature and holds a PhD from SOAS in exile and cultural memory.
Tim Franks
Tim Franks presents Newshour on the BBC World Services. He was previously a BBC reporter for almost two decades, including nine years as an award-winning foreign correspondent, travelling across Europe and the Middle East. He’s covered several major conflicts, from Iraq and Israel–Lebanon, to South Sudan and Ukraine. Tim won one of the most prestigious […]
Rosie Goldsmith
Rosie Goldsmith is a journalist and presenter. With the BBC for 20 years, today she combines journalism with chairing and curating arts and literary events in the UK and across the world. She is Director of the European Literature Network, Artistic Director of the European Writers’ Festival and presenter of the Slightly Foxed books podcast.