Tony is a TV and Radio comedian and best selling author.

Two of his books have been serialised on BBC Radio 4 – ‘Round Ireland with a Fridge’ and ‘Playing the Moldovans at Tennis’, which was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize in 2000. 

In 2009 Tony released a feature film version of his own book Round Ireland with a Fridge. He is currently working on a second feature film; an adaptation of his book Playing the Moldovans at Tennis.

“If there is any justice in the world he’d be a huge star”

– Time Out

“Micky’s take on his working-class East End background is side-splitting… The rising star Micky Flanagan”

– Stephen Armstrong, The Sunday Times

“Micky Flanagan was the highlight of the evening. He told the tales with animation and style. He was confident, assured and the audience was with him all the way. Micky Flanagan was the funniest man on the floor.”

– BBC.co.uk

“The charming Micky Flanagan is very confident and even enigmatic, he uses pace and silence with skill and has a strong physicality.”

– The Stage

“Micky is the very embodiment of the cheeky, chirpy Cockney, and his chatty, effervescent delivery engages the most reticent of rooms. The infectious energy is also heightened by his exaggerated, almost camp, reactions. It all makes for a rambunctious set that’s sometimes rude, sometimes thoughtful, but rarely short of hilarious.”

– Chortle.co.uk

Brilliantly motivating, hilariously funny, completely different and extremely effective.

He cuts through complex motivational psychobabble, making it fun, relevant and useful. People come away from Adrian’s presentations feeling inches taller, with big grins on their faces, fully armed – ready for success.

Born in the workplace, out of necessity to inspire others, his unique world of motivational terminology and characters is today helping everyday people from a vast array of organisations to deliver extraordinary results.

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Adrian Webster- If you’re looking for a speaker on any of the following:

• Thriving In Tough Times
• Engaging And Inspiring Everyone Around You In Your Team To Really Make A Difference
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and want someone your audience will easily relate to, who really can deliver lasting messages in a refreshingly unique and fabulously entertaining way.

Rufus Hound is a comedian, presenter, actor and the owner of a fine moustache.

He won that dance thing for Sport Relief dressed up as Cheryl Cole. Remember? And he’s on ‘Celebrity Juice’ every week, sat next to Fearne Cotton. Or as the eponymous hero of CBBC’s ‘Hounded’.

So that’s what he does. Though there’s other stuff as well.

He hosts Radio 4’s “My Teenage Diary”, took over from Anne Robinson to present the final series of ‘OutTake TV’ for BBC1 and captained the Blue Team for three series of Dave’s ‘Argumental’. Having picked the year 2000 as his funniest, Channel 4 gave him two hours one Saturday night to explain why in “My Funniest Year: 2000”, which was very nice of them.

Oh, and he’s been a guest on a lot of things too.Jonathan Ross’s radio show, Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two, The Apprentice: You’re Fired, Xtra Factor, The Five o Clock Show, This Morning… blah blah blah.

He also does loads of stand-up across the country and hosts glittering awards ceremonies.

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Charming and charismatic, a natural motor-mouth, Brighton’s Seann Walsh is the most frighteningly precocious talent to emerge from the UK comedy circuit in ages.

Within two years of his first comedy performance in 2007, Seann became the winner of the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year. Shortly after, other accolades included Chortle Best Breakthrough Act Nominee 2010 and Chortle Best Compere Nominee 2011.

“… funnyman SEANN WALSH had the crowd in stitches with his memories of fixing video tapes by blowing in them…” – The Sun

“…with the looks, gags and charm to become something quite special, Walsh is this generation’s Dylan Moran” – Time Out

I was born in Glasgow, a child of my mum and dad and the 1980s.  I first got into comedy when I won my school talent show, beating a Nirvana tribute band along the way.  I did a killer impression of my headmaster.  I could do it for you now but you probably don’t know him.  I got into stand-up properly when I was 19 and was lucky enough to win some nice prizes.  My mum keeps them in a cabinet for me.

It was about then I got a shout to host the breakfast radio show on Beat 106.  After that I did loads on air at the BBC then a bit at XFM and now Capital Breakfast.  Come to think of it most of my radio has been at breakfast time.  I think it’s because I go well with toast.

My big telly break was SMTV Live.  If you didn’t catch it, it was a weekly dose of ITV1 happy pills every Saturday morning.  I loved it.  It was a great gig and I was following Ant n Dec, not in a stalker way you understand. They left pretty big shoes to fill which was surprising as they have tiny feet.

Anyway it all worked out really well and I had a cracking time.  From then on I’ve done some other cool presenting stuff like BBC Scotland’s Children in Need, Club Cupid and Sportsround. Oh and I’ve met Keith Chegwin.

I’ve never given up the day job though and am still standing up most weekends and a few school nights as well.  I’ll usually amble up with a show to the Edinburgh Fringe every year and do some touring when I can too.

I’m sure there are lots of other things I’ve forgotten to tell you about but that’s what happens when you use your diary for doodling rather than writing stuff in.

Well we think there is. Our philosophy is that with the right questions and guidance you can place the right speaker to the right event.

For example:

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We like to be thorough when matching a speaker to your event in order that we can send you a fabulous list that is appropriate. Be prepared for many more questions like this to funnel through the process of selecting the right speaker.

Case Study: A client that thought he was looking for a TV personality. When he was asked the question ‘are your guests likely to share a common interest through their work?’ it transpired that a wonderful humorous speaker from the business sector with a passion for Formula 1 fit the bill just perfectly!

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12th January 2012

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Alun Cochrane is a no-nonsense comedian who specialises in funny nonsense. Much of his comedy begins simply as something he’s seen, heard or felt in his own life, or in the street, or the kitchen, or anywhere and from that it blossoms into a highly amusing anecdote or a strange flight of fancy.

He has recently joined Frank Skinner’s Absolute Radio Show and can be heard every Saturday morning from 8am.

Alun has several television appearances to his name, most recently Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow he’s also often seen on Eight out of ten cats, Mock The Week,  and has appeared on Soccer A.M and Live At The Comedy Store.

Radio producers are also aware of Cochrane’s talent and he’s notched up various credits from Just A Minute, 4 Stands Up, and The Now Show to Clive Anderson’s Chat Room.

At the Edinburgh festival he’s performed 6 original solo stand-up shows in the last 7 years to critical and audience acclaim.

Alun has a number of corporate entertainment clients who appreciate the ability to tailor his act to a specific group whilst still being extremely amusing and original- he owns several suits (at least 4) and now he has a child is particularly happy to wear one of them for work of this nature. Perhaps less pleasing to him is discovering he is good at work in this sector just as an enormous economic downturn strikes. Hmm.

Maggie Philbin has worked in radio and television for 30 years on a wide range of science, medical and technology programmes.

Currently providing analysis and comment on technology and a regular reporter on BBC 1’s Inside Out, she has a unique resonance with audiences, having grown up with them on much loved shows like Swap Shop and Tomorrow’s World. Many of the everyday gadgets we now take for granted were demonstrated on live television for the very first time by Maggie – the first truly mobile phone, the first car navigation system, the first fax machine, even the first supermarket barcode reader.

Additionally, Maggie’s extensive radio and television career has also included working with ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. She has covered stories all over the world, from earthquake prediction systems in Iceland, to wave power technology in Norway, to possibly the most dangerous system for rescuing people from ski cable cars in Switzerland!

She worked on a project with the BBC, NHK (Japan) and RAI (Italy) to give the first live international demonstration of Super Hi-Vision, the broadcasting system that will be used in ten years time!

Her reporting career on live programmes from Hospital Watch to This Morning, on network television and on local radio has taken her into every imaginable and unimaginable situation.

Maggie is a popular keynote speaker for businesswomen.  “We need more female entrepreneurs and more women on the boards of companies. I’m not just banging the feminist drum, it makes very sound economic sense. Companies waste a lot of talent by neglecting mentoring.” Maggie provides practical advice on how businesses can harness modern technology not only to improve their profits but to develop their trust and credibility.

Maggie has a twenty one year old daughter, Rose, named after the woman who gambled on a young student being able to handle the BBC’s first Saturday morning show