Melvin Odoom - Radio DJ and TV Presenter
Melvin Odoom is a radio DJ and TV presenter. When he was young he wanted to be the British Michael Jackson, but realised he couldn't be because he wasn't good enough at singing and dancing. He met Rickie...
Rickie Haywood Williams - Radio DJ and TV Presenter
Rickie Haywood Williams is a radio DJ and TV presenter. He had to decide whether to make a career out of sports, which he was good at, or the media, which he was passionate about. He chose the passion...
Tim Lovejoy - Television Presenter, Producer and Writer
Tim Lovejoy is a TV Presenter, Producer and Writer, who also owns his own internet channel. When he left school he went to work at a company selling mortgages, but knew this wasn't his dream job. So...
Cathy Whitla - Post Production Editor
Cathy Whitla works for BBC Northern Ireland as a post production editor. She really enjoyed school, but found university completely different. She left university after her second year and went to work...
Mervyn Jess - Television News Reporter
Mervyn Jess is a senior broadcaster working in the BBC newsroom in Belfast. He describes taking a huge risk when he was younger by not taking an engineering job offered by a company with a world-wide reputation....
Jane Cassidy - Managing Editor
Jane Cassidy is managing editor of learning, language and social action here at BBC Northern Ireland - "It's a department of about thirty people and it involved looking after all the education content...
Deirdre Devlin - Executive Producer
Deirdre Devlin is an Executive Producer with the BBC in Northern Ireland. She did a postgraduate diploma in Journalism and had some work experience with the BBC, before joining them and spending 11 years...
Helen Toland - Radio Producer
Helen Toland works for BBC Radio Ulster as a Radio Producer. She works on an entertainment programme talking to celebrities and local people, she also puts together the music for the programmes. After...
Lord David Puttnam - Film Producer and Politician
Lord David Puttnam decided to "have a crack at the movie industry" after 10 years in advertising. His films 'Midnight Express' and 'Chariots of Fire' were huge hits, the latter winning David an Oscar...
Rory Sutherland - Copywriter & Vice Chairman
Rory Sutherland graduated from Cambridge with a degree in Classics and a teaching qualification, he then decided he "didn't want to teach immediately" and joined advertising and marketing agency Oglivy...
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