John Simpson is the BBC’s World Affairs Editor, a multi-award winning veteran news broadcaster (and accomplished author) who has covered almost every major event of the world from the 1960s to the present day.
Michel Faber's books include Under The Skin, The Book Of Strange New Things and The Crimson Petal And The White. He is a Dutch-Australian European living in England.
Vicky Long is an artist and producer, working from a studio in Vauxhall - studiolong.co.uk / VSCO @studiolonguk
Mark Miodownik is a materials scientist and engineer; Director of the UCL Institute of Making; author of Stuff Matters and other books; occasional tv/radio presenter.
Max Eastley is a visual and sound artist and musician whose work is inspired by natural phenomena. He participated in three expeditions to Spitzbergen as one of the Cape Farewell artists and has produced work to draw attention to climate change.
Alexis Taylor is a British musician best known as the lead vocalist of the band Hot Chip. While his work with Hot Chip combines elements of pop, electronic, and dance music, his introspective solo albums, like Silence, showcase his unique songwriting abilities and richly diverse musical influences.
Artist and explorer, Nick Edwards has participated in expeditions to the Arctic, Timbuktu and the source of the Dollis Brook. An accomplished film-maker, Nick is always interested in embarking on a new adventure.
Terry Edwards and Paul Cuddeford have played alongside one another with Tony Visconti/Woody Woodmansey's Holy Holy, at Shane MacGowan's 60th birthday celebration and other name-dropping events. When performing as a duo, however, they're best described as experts in skewed blues and junk jazz, which can be weirdly sentimental.
Charlie Kronick has worked in the fields of environment and development as an activist, campaigner and writer for more than three decades. From driving inflatables and blocking toxic waste pipes, developing strategy and leading Greenpeace climate change campaigns to most of the last decade focused on the risks to the financial system from climate change.
Dave Allison is a writer and editor whose work includes award-winning screenplays, several books of poetry and, most recently, a first novel that is yet to delight the world. He also helped launch the first karaoke machine in the UK, but please don’t hold that against him.
Peter Curran is a broadcaster, writer and independent documentary maker for BBC Radio and TV. He recently produced and directed the Radio 4 drama Love Pants: Ian Dury and Jane Horrocks, and his Foghorn Company has made programmes and podcasts featuring communities in Norway, Soweto, Belfast, and Sao Paulo.
Nancy Campbell is a Scottish writer whose books include The Library of Ice and Fifty Words for Snow, a Waterstones book of the month. She was appointed UK Canal Laureate by The Poetry Society in 2018, and received the 2020 Ness Award from the Society for a decade-long creative response to the polar regions across non-fiction, poetry and artists’ books.
Ruby Wright is an artist, illustrator and picture book maker. She has been artist in residence at UCL’s Plastic Waste Hub and with Refugee Tales. Previously she worked for BBC Radio 4, Arts Council England and The Architecture Foundation, and had radio pieces broadcast on Resonance FM in London and NPR in the USA. Her debut picture book will be published in May 2023 by Rocket Bird Books.
One of the UK’s most familiar voices on science and technology, Quentin Cooper has hosted many hundreds of radio and TV programmes, including for over 13 years presenting BBC Radio 4’s flagship science programme, Material World.
Susie Hamilton is a London-based artist represented by Paul Stolper Gallery in Museum Street. She is the younger daughter of the Arctic explorer and yachtsman, Augustine Courtauld.
Rhodri Marsden is an integral part of the much-loved Scritti Politti, and also performs with prog-psych group Lost Crowns, guitar wunderkinds Kenny Process Team and Mercury-nominated Sweet Billy Pilgrim. In 2019 he had an unlikely top 20 iTunes hit with a disco album on the subject of Brexit. He reviews gadgets for the Financial Times and spends most of his time plugging things in.
Permaculturalist percussionist Fritz Catlin is busy propagating sugar beats until his time allotment runs out.
With one foot in the arts, one foot in the sciences, and both feet constantly moving, Suba Subramaniam has over two decades’ experience as a dancer and choreographer, currently as Artistic Director of national South Asian dance organisation Akademi. A former co-director of education for Cape Farewell, she’s been on three of their voyages, taking dozens of young people to the High Arctic (and bringing them back).
Heidi Morstang is an artist working with film, photography and experimental documentary; she is interested in developing visual methods when working on interdisciplinary projects that concern environmental change. She is Associate Professor in Photography at the University of Plymouth.
Louisa Young is a writer and songwriter, and granddaughter of Kathleen Scott, whose biography she wrote. She has published fifteen books including the award-winning My Dear I Wanted To Tell You, and is a Londoner.
Isabel Adomakoh Young is an award-winning stage and screen actor and writer of English and Ghanaian origins, based in London. She is currently Guest Artistic Director of the Kings Head Theatre.
Hannah Bird is a Wellcome Trust Clore Fellow with 15 years experience of developing new programmes and strategy across cultural, educational and scientific organisations.
Michèle Noach has worked in the Arctic on and off for the last 20 years on art/science collaborations and as founder/director of an arts festival based at the 70th parallel, where she is now directing Moose Latitudes, a documentary on climate chaos. She was longterm artist-in-residence at The Lost Gardens of Heligan and then the Eden Project, researching the effects of climate change on Arctic poppies.
Jamie Quantrill is a cinematographer of BAFTA and award winning non-fiction, fiction, music video, artist moving image, and commercials. He is currently collaborating with artist and filmmaker Michèle Noach on the feature length documentary Moose Latitudes, a spellbinding journey through the landscape, people, culture and climate change frontline of the deep Arctic Circle.
Lucy Parnell is a musician and composer who works with found objects, sounds and textures to create layered soundscapes and songs. They are collaborating with the artist Michèle Noach on the feature-length documentary Moose Latitudes.
Rachel Horton-Kitchlew is a British contemporary harpist whose solo compositions use loops and effects to create textures of rhythmic ambient music. She is also a sustainable materials designer and researcher, focusing on regenerative design.
Elle Márjá Eira is a multi-disciplined artist who in recent years has marked herself at the major international industry festivals both as a film music composer and filmmaker. As a musical artist she joiks in her native Sápmi tongue. Winner of Arctic Talent 2015.
Arthur Jeffes is a musician and composer who has spent time in the Arctic (re-creating Scott’s final expedition for Discovery Channel and BBC2). His band, Penguin Cafe, will be touring later in the year. Accompanied by Oli Langford and Clem Browne.
Dr Jean de Pomereu’s research focuses on two separate but interconnected themes. One is the scientific and political history of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. The other is the visual and material culture of Antarctica, including photography, drawing, painting, scientific images and objects.
Anthony Moore is a composer/musician, now based in the UK, formerly Professor in Cologne for Sound Art and Music, working on the social and technical history of sound.
Michael Bravo is Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Downing College. He is based at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Department of Geography, where he is Head of the Circumpolar History and Public Policy Research Group.
Mark Brandon is a polar oceanographer at the Open Univeristy committed to research and education not only to university undergraduates, but in the widest possible sense. Mark's main ambitions are around helping as many people as possible understand our planet and the importance of the relatively remote polar regions to our climate and life.
Rebecca Newsom is Head of Politics at Greenpeace UK. She leads on political strategies, policy development and political lobbying on issues like phasing out fossil fuels, expanding renewables, stopping industrial fishing and farming and promoting more sustainable food production. Rebecca has done lots of grassroots climate campaigning, including with Reclaim the Power, and fossil fuel divestment campaigning.
Justin Packshaw has built a life around travel. Born in the Mediterranean, he served in the British Army, has represented Britain in the Whitbread Round the World Yacht race, crossed Mongolia on horseback, summited Everest, jet-skied the coast of Nigeria and led several expeditions to both the North and South Poles (to name just a few conquered feats).
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