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After Dinner Speakers

UP-TO £1000

  • AARON JAMES

  • ADGER BROWN

  • AUSTIN KNIGHT

  • BARRY YORK

  • BILL WOOLAND

  • BILLY FLYWHEEL

  • BOB WEBB

  • CARL SCHOFIELD

  • CHRIS McGLADE

  • CHRISTINE COLES

  • CRISSY ROCK

  • DENNY WATERS

  • DOM WOODWARD

  • GARY MARSHALL

  • GARY SKYNER

  • GREG COOK

  • IAN RICHARDS

  • JACK RYAN

  • JAMIE SUTHERLAND

  • JED STONE

  • JEFF STEVENSON

  • JOHN EVANS

  • JOHN GILLAN

  • JOHN LORY

  • JOHN MARTIN

  • JOHN STILES

  • JOHNNIE CASSON

  • JOSH DANIELS

  • LEA ROBERTS

  • LESLIE GIBSON

  • LESTER CRABTREE

  • MARK LANGLEY

  • MARTIN GOLD

  • MICK MARTIN

  • NICKY NEWSOME

  • NINA GILLIGAN

  • OLLIE SPENCER

  • PAULINE DANIELS

  • PAUL BOARDMAN

  • PETE EMMETT

  • RUDI WEST

  • SAM HARLAND

  • SEAN STYLES

  • TANK SHERMAN

  • TERRY COTTA

UP TO £1000

£1000 - £4000

  • ALFIE MOORE

  • BOBBY DAVRO

  • DARREN FARLEY

  • DUGGIE BROWN

  • IAN IRVING

  • JIMMY CRICKET

  • KEVIN CONNELLY

  • MICK MILLER

  • MIKE OSMAN

  • ROD WOODWARD

  • STAN BOARDMAN

£1000-$4000

UPTO £2500

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Alan Wright

Alan Wright has been one of the most well-known voices on BBC Radio and, more recently, a familiar face too on BBC TV. Alan has also hosted many tours and talk-ins with the biggest sporting names including Kevin Keegan, Ian Botham, Jack Charlton, Graham Gooch, and Dean Richards. Alan’s experience and versatility is in constant demand, whether as a stimulating speaker at business conferences, or as a very funny entertainer on lighter occasions. He is also the former Chief Executive of Durham County Cricket Club.

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Alfie Moore

Alfie Moore is a serving police officer, made his name as a contestant on the ITV “Show Me The Funny” series. Alfie is a versatile and distinctively humorous after dinner speaker, presenter and comedy writer with his niche area as a serving police sergeant. He came slightly later to comedy and brings a wealth of insights and comedy moments from his eighteen years on the beat, where a keen sense of humour has been the key to his success and survival! Alfie has an observational comedic style, with witty and often gritty anecdotes based on modern day policing!

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Andrew Pierce

Andrew Pierce is now assistant editor of The Daily Mail after twenty years with The Times. He knows everyone in the Westminster village and his ability to ferret out scandal and gossip means
that he has a reputation for breaking stories that the great and the good might prefer kept quiet. Andrew is also a seasoned broadcaster, appearing on Question Time, The Daily Politics, Sky News and LBC radio, where he has a weekly Sunday morning slot. Andrew has enough Westminster gossip and can’t wait to divulge as much of it as he can!

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Bill Giles OBE

Bill Giles OBE is the former Senior Weatherman at the BBC Weather Centre. He retired from the Met Office in January 2000 after leading the team of Broadcast Meteorologists since 1983. An author of several weather based books, Bill is a very popular speaker on the cruise circuit. His real passion however is the affects on our world of Global Warming (Climate Change) - views that were even gagged by the Met Office yet subsequently proved correct! Interesting speaker on this theme, or a general anecdotal amusing speaker on his time with the Met Office!

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Brian Newbold

Brian Newbold was born and bred in South Yorkshire. During a life sentence as an engineer at British Coal, he developed a warped sense of humour and perfected the art of becoming invisible in the afternoon. He is very well known on the circuit as "The Man from the Coal Board" and has entertained the full spectrum of organisations from The Royal Variety Club to The Institute of
Funeral Directors! His material is suitable for all occasions and he will personalise his speech to include the “Top Table” or indeed any hit list of your choice!

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Christa Ackroyd

Christa Ackroyd is one of Yorkshire most well known broadcasters. Formerly co host of “Calendar” she moved to the BBC to front their flagship regional show “Look North” where she has remained since. Born and educated in Bradford, as the daughter of a policeman, it was inevitable that her interest of crimes led her to investigative journalism, working in local media before becoming the UK’s first female radio news editor. She also had a regular column with the Sunday
Express.

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Clive Coleman

Clive Coleman a barrister, broadcaster and one of the country’s top comedy writers, with the unique ability to write and deliver hilarious material on just about any subject. His years in court, working to a brief, combined with his skill in writing topical comedy to tight deadlines for some of the country’s best known television and radio comedy shows. A regular contributor on legal affairs to numerous TV and radio shows, he also wrote his first ever sit com, “Chambers” based on his profession and has written many scripts for awards ceremonies hosted by celebrities.

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Dave Wolfe

Dave Wolfe captivates every audience with his unique style of observational comedy. Combining classic and alternative comedy; using no bad language and the ability to personalise his highly original material to suit your audience, means a cast iron certainty of a fantastic function! He specialises in personalisation for corporate events. Dave has appeared at the London Palladium, Royal Albert Hall, and on TV series such as Royal Variety Show (twice) and Live From Her Majesty’s. His reputation as “The King of Corporate” says it all really!

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David Bryon

David Bryon is a highly entertaining after-dinner speaker who is building an excellent reputation on the speaking circuit. David is the former Managing Director of bmibaby, one of Europe’s largest low cost airlines. His knowledge and experience provides a wealth of tales from the aviation industry, and he weaves these into an amusing and captivating routine which resonates well with anybody who has ever flown! David now combines his successful speaking career with other media commitments.

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David Gunson

David Gunson is a brilliantly funny, former air traffic controller at Birmingham Airport. He speaks
on the general theme of 'What goes up doesn't necessarily come down' - comic stories of his experiences of narrowly averted disasters! Dave's smooth approach and impeccable timing does nothing to allay the fears of frequent flyers, leaving them with the nagging doubt that it's all true. Dave is a former American Express Speaker of the Year and he has spoken for many of the UK’s
most successful companies, as well as institute and sporting dinner functions.

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David Kendall

David Kendall is a former Chartered Accountant and Musician. However, best known as “The Bank Manager” he spent most of his career working for Barclays before taking early retirement in 1990, to concentrate on a full time speaking career. Yorkshire Born and Bred, and proud of it, David’s observations are relative to his background and are presented with his typical warmth and impeccable delivery. Over the years David has been asked to speak at functions across the whole of Europe and is simply a clean, entertaining and very funny top table speaker.

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Dr. Kevin Jones

Dr. Kevin Jones is a hugely successful practising consultant ‘mirthologist’, firmly established on the international after-dinner speaking circuit. Dr. Jones proves that a doctor can both cure and
entertain thousands each and every year. Dr. Kevin Jones has been entertaining audiences with tales of medical practise for over 15 years; his stories come from the world of medicine and transplantation, dealing with death, illness and dying and other less light-hearted topics! All delivered with his renowned “Black Humour” but without causing any offence.

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​Dr Mike Stroud

Dr Mike Stroud is best known for his record-breaking expeditions with Sir Ranulph Fiennes, they first teamed up in 1986. Most recently, in November 2003, he and Sir Ranulph completed seven full marathons, on seven continents in just seven days, once again raising huge amounts for money for charity. Mike is the author of two books, ‘Shadows on The Wasteland’ – documenting his crossing of Antarctica and ‘Survival of The Fittest’– examining the relationship between nutrition, exercise, health and peak performance.

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Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards

Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards - the world's favourite ski-jumper - came back to Britain several years ago after spending three years living and working in Lake Placid, New York State. His stories of how he became an unlikely superstar have had audiences in stitches on both sides of the Atlantic. A former plasterer, Eddie had to self fund his Olympics dream and endeared himself to the public after a series of less than competitive jumps left him in last place. Now a trained lawyer, he works as a sports agent.

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Eric Jones

Eric Jones is a former Detective Superintendent with Manchester CID. By the virtue of that occupation, he is the possessor of a rich vein of stories with which to entertain both all-male and mixed audiences. Now his brilliant wit and humour are in demand at dinners all round the country. And more recently, Eric made his debut on the “comedy club” circuit and is supported by his long time friend, Ken Dodd, for whom he writes much material. Topical and original, Eric prides himself on his work ethic and efforts to ensure the speech he delivers is the best he can.

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Eric Knowles

Eric Knowles’ name is synonymous with Antiques. A regular on shows such as “Antiques Roadshow”, “Put your Money where your Mouth is”, “Crimewatch” and “Going for a Song.” One of BBC’s most popular presenters, Eric takes the wraps off the mystery of the world of antiques
while delighting in demonstrating his skill with both artefacts and people alike. Visually illustrated with slides and presents an immensely enjoyable mixture of fascinating, often irreverent
anecdotal reminiscences.

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Eve Pollard OBE

Eve Pollard OBE is the First Lady of Fleet Street. She is the former Editor of Sunday Mirror and Sunday Express, as well as magazine supplements for many of the national Sunday papers. Returning to women’s titles she also launched Elle magazine in the US as its first editor-in-chief. A regular reporter on BBCs The One Show, Eve is a published author and biographer and also also frequently appears on radio and TV from The News Quiz to You and Yours, This Morning to Have I Got News For You, Loose Women to the Daily Politics.

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Frances Edmonds

Frances Edmonds a best-selling author and broadcaster who has been rated Britain’s most entertaining female speaker in a recent survey by “The Times.” A Cambridge-educated modern linguist, with humorous tendencies in five European languages, she spent fifteen years as an international conference interpreter creating linguistic silk purses out of befuddled politicians’ syntactic sows’ ears. As an after-dinner speaker, Frances combines intellectual curiosity about her audience with her own brand of wit and flair to create a truly memorable event for the client.

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Garry Richardson

Garry Richardson has been presenting sport on Today since 1981, and is now in his 25th year. As he says, "they only gave the train robbers 20 years". Garry has covered all the main sporting events for the programme including the Olympic Games and Wimbledon. During that time he has interviewed a galaxy of sports stars including Ali and Tyson from the boxing world, and the likes of McEnroe, Borg, Graf and Henman at Wimbledon. He also, famously, conducted an impromptu interview with the then US president Bill Clinton at Wimbledon during a rain break.

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Gervase Phinn

Gervase Phinn shares his hilarious tales of life as a schools inspector in the Yorkshire Dales which will have you in stitches. He taught in a range of schools for fourteen years before becoming
an education adviser and school inspector and is probably best known for his best-selling autobiographical novels: The Other Side of the Dale, Over Hill and Dale and Head Over Heels in the Dales. He possesses a natural ability to tell a story in a language that appeals to adults as well as children and is a popular choice for after dinner, as well as educational events.

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Graham Bell

Graham Bell is a former 5 time Olympic skier and the face of the BBC's Ski Sunday as well as a successful commentator and sporting pundit. His fun and fascinating after dinner speeches, mixed with question and answer sessions, provide an opportunity to listen to what it takes to become an Olympian as well as behind the scenes knowledge from a TV presenter, delivered with enthusiasm and humour. He brings to life the feeling of pressure and expertise that is required to compete in unforgettable events.

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Graham Walker

Graham Walker is known as a founder of the Comedy Showgroup, The Grumbleweeds. Now a duo, Graham has remained a Grumbleweed his entire life, with several successful TV series behind and still topping the bill in summer season and pantomime each year. There are comedians, and there are funny men. Graham “Grumbleweed” Walker falls very definitely into the second category. A natural comic and storyteller, Graham tells a slightly embellished observation on life, and his Yorkshire roots and is guaranteed to reduce his audience to tears of laughter.

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Ian Keable

Ian Keable combines sleight of hand with sleight of mind. Hilariously funny one moment with his dry wit and audience participation, and completely baffling the next. What is especially remarkable about Ian is that he is often booked as an After Dinner Speaker as well as a Cabaret performer. Carrying no ‘props’ and looking like a business man, he segues effortlessly into his unique performance - catching the audience out, not only with his mind-reading skills, but also on their expectations of a conventional speaker.

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Ian Moore

Ian Moore has by his own admission got an adoration for al things Mod. n 2003 Ian was one of only seven British comics selected to appear at the pinnacle of all comedy festivals - Montreal's Just For Laugh's. Alongside the likes of Jimmy Carr, Ian’s performance in the Britcom showcase proved to be such a success he subsequently went on to headline the Worldcom show. Ian's laconic observations on life, from the problems of using the wrong vocabulary in a German Pizza Hut, to an almost pathological hatred of open toes sandals have made him a hit with his audience

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Jeff Innocent

Jeff Innocent is from London’s East End and grew up the son of a real-life villain and could have chosen a career in the family firm. Instead he worked a variety of jobs before finding his calling in
life, Jeff is now very much part of the comedy gentry and widely acknowledged as one of the UK's
top headlines. He has worked across the globe in his 10 year career as a comedian and appeared on several shows, including Edinburgh Nights , I Love 1999 (BBC 1), Later with Jools Holland, The National Lottery Show, The Stand Up Show etc etc. A crime not to go and see him!

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John Kettley

John Kettley was born in West Yorkshire in July 1952 and served for 30 years with the UK Meteorological Office before going freelance. His speech is both and autobiography and a look back at many varieties of extreme weather ranging from the atrocious winter of 1963 through to massive floods and scorching summers. John's personal involvement with the 1987 hurricane fiasco features extensively. Weaved into the overall theme are his memorable encounters with such noted figures as Tony Blair, Dickie Bird, Brian Johnston and Dick Francis.

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John Martin's

John Martin's outstanding talent is comedy, both as a performer and a writer. He has the unique ability to tailor his material perfectly to suit the clients’ demands. John Martin show is full of energy, excitement and class! Companies requiring the ultimate professional have called upon John's services to entertain at their dinners where his expertise enables him to weave requested company information into his performances and were, being a writer of topical comedy, his material
is always up to date. He holds a Guinness Record for a live show lasting over 101 hours!

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John Simonett

John Simonett is a professional, adept and experienced after dinner speaker. John also has a phenomenal, trained memory and uses this to telling effect - he does his "homework" for each event and learns numerous names, details and relevant company information, which he skillfully weaves into his speeches. In fact the more "inside "knowledge"he can acquire beforehand about a company's people, products and philosophy the better. An original and refreshingly different alternative to the traditional after dinner speaker, and with a touch of “magic” thrown in.

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John Stiles