Nov 19, 2024
Andrew Turvil is a restaurant writer and editor who did the poacher-turned-gamekeeper thing and co-owned a London pub between 2015 and 2024. A former editor of The Good Food Guide, AA Restaurant Guide and Which? Pub Guide, Andrew has spent the last 30-odd years writing about food and drink. His non-fiction book about the explosive 1990s restaurant scene, Blood, Sweat & Asparagus Spears, based on his first-hand experience, is due for publication by Elliott & Thompson in 2025. He’s also a world record-breaking screenwriter which he tells us is not as exciting as it sounds.
Twitter: @craboroyster
May 19, 2022
Charlie Unwin is an author, speaker and coach with over 20 years experience in the field of human performance and psychology.
As a performance coach Charlie has worked with elite individuals and teams in sport, business and the military. These include multiple Olympics Champions, senior executives in FTSE100 companies, UK Special Forces, England Football, Premier League clubs and the Royal Household.
Charlie’s passion for human performance has been uniquely shaped by a varied career. A platoon commander on the front-line in Iraq Charlie learnt about leading people in complex and dangerous environments. As an athlete with TeamGB he discovered the art and science of learning, competing and performing at the highest level. Combined with his academic foundation in psychology and award-winning research into Motivational Climate in Elite Teams, Charlie has a deep understanding of the individual differences that make us all unique in how we define and achieve success.
Charlie has designed and delivered award-winning programmes for global businesses focused on talent development, high-performing teams and delivering results under pressure. His clients range from start-ups to global businesses including Coca-Cola, Dyson, Lego, Virgin, Sainsbury’s, GlaxoSmithKline and the Bank of England.
Author of the book Inside Out – How to train your mind and nerve for high performance
Instagram: charlie_unwin
LinkedIn: @CharlieUnwin
Jun 6, 2023
Simon Waterson joined the Royal Navy Commandos at sixteen and served in the special forces for seven years before embarking on a career as a fitness trainer. Over the last twenty-five years he has become the film industry’s most in-demand health and fitness advisor. Based in the UK, Simon travels all over the world preparing actors for major roles before accompanying them on set to keep them fit during filming.
Simon has written two books, Intelligent Fitness and The 10-Week Intelligent Fitness Challenge. Both were big bestsellers, with the latter hitting number 1 on the overall Amazon chart. Simon is also a regular guest on This Morning.
https://www.instagram.com/simonwatersonperformance/?hl=en
May 4, 2021
Boff Whalley was born in Lancashire, where he worked as a postman and supermarket shelf-stacker before starting a band with friends in the Thatcher era. After 25 years of recording and touring with Chumbawamba (co-writing their hit song ‘Tubthumping’), Boff started to write – he has written several touring plays for Red Ladder Theatre and has written large-scale musicals with residents of two East Leeds estates, performed at West Yorkshire Playhouse. He is working at the moment with Cardboard Citizens Theatre, the Welsh National Opera, and with Edinburgh Fringe winner Daniel Bye on a show about running
May 4, 2021
Felix White is a British musician, originally best known as the guitarist of the indie rock band The Maccabees. His life has widened to many disciplines since, taking in broadcasting, writing, film score composition and presenting. He is the co-presenter of both the loosely cricket-based BBC podcast Tailenders, with Greg James and Jimmy Anderson, and the official Fulham Football Club podcast Fulham Fix, as well as the founding member, guitarist and vocalist of 86TVs. He has composed music for multiple feature-length films, including the Emmy Award-winning McEnroe, and presents the baseball coverage on the BBC, appearing every Sunday throughout the season on Bases Covered Live. His first book, It’s Always Summer Somewhere: A Matter of Life and Cricket, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and a Sunday Times Bestseller. Whatever Will Be, Will Be is the highly anticipated sequel.
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