Peter Russell

At school, Peter's teacher predicted he had a great future as a Bishop,
but his grandmother was more down to earth, saying: "Mark my words, that
boy will become a tramp". Granny's words were to echo in the young Russell's ears for many years as he camped on doorsteps, interviewing the great and the hopeless: John Major, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, to name but a few.

But perhaps Peter's greatest achievement was rescuing the screen legend Laurence Olivier from a pub toilet. On the face of it, BFBS would seem an unlikely home for Peter, as he's twice been chased by tanks and held at gunpoint in Transylvannia.