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Her radio career includes Any Answers on BBC Radio 4, Drive, Doubletake and the Anita Anand Show, Saturday Live, The Westminster Hour, Beyond Westminster, Midweek and Woman's Hour on Radio 4. On BBC television she has presented The Daily Politics, The Sunday Politics and Newsnight. She is the author of Sophia: Princess Suffragette, Revolutionary and The Patient Assassin, which won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for 2020 and co-author of Kohinoor: The Story of the World’s Most Infamous Diamond.

William Dalrymple is the bestselling author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning Return of a King and most recently The Golden Road. A frequent broadcaster, he has written and presented three television series, one of which won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA. He is one of the co-founders and co-directors of the Jaipur Literature Festival, is the co host of the Empire Podcast. In 2018 he won the President’s Medal at the British Academy for 'outstanding service to the cause of the humanities and social sciences'. He has also won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the Foreign Correspondent of the Year at the FPA Media Awards and been awarded five honorary doctorates.

Bee's books include One Woman Crime Wave (Renard, 2024), inspired by JB Priestley, and the award-winning travelogue In Search of Mary (Alma, 2015) which was a ‘biography of the year’. She co-wrote the bestseller Talking about Jane Austen in Baghdad (Penguin, 2010) which was dramatised by the BBC, and was one of Virago’s Fifty Shades of Feminism (2013). Bee was formerly a BBC World Service journalist and travel writer. She is founder and chair of the Wollstonecraft Society, a human rights education charity, and was recently awarded an MBE for services to women's rights.