Merlin Crossingham

Merlin is Creative Director for Wallace & Gromit, and has spent 15 years with Bristol-based Academy Award-winning studio Aardman Animations.

He was the Key Animator on feature film Chicken Run, and Second Unit Director on Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of The Were Rabbit. He also co-directed the Creature Comforts USA series for CBS, for which he gained an Emmy nomination.

Merlin was Supervising Animator for Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death, and directed the BBC One branding idents to help promote the film’s debut on Christmas Day 2008. He has since specialised in directing Wallace & Gromit commercials. Merlin also filmed the world’s first stop-motion 3D IMAX test.

Alice Roberts

Alice Roberts has tackled topics as diverse as Palaeolithic archaeology as presenter of BBC Two’s hugely successful Coast.

The medical doctor first appeared on television as a bone expert on Channel 4’s archaeology series, Time Team, and went on to become a presenter in the spin-off series, Extreme Archaeology, as well as presenting on Time Team Live.

Alice has also presented two of her own series on BBC Two, Dr Alice Roberts: Don’t Die Young and The Incredible Human Journey, writing the book to accompany both series. A fifth series of Coast is due to be screened later this year.

Adam Hart-Davis

Adam Hart-Davis is a freelance photographer, writer and broadcaster with an abundance of books and broadcasts to his name.

He is perhaps best known for BBC One series What The Romans Did For Us, which prompted follow-up series on scientific advances made by the Victorians, Tudors and Stuarts.

He has collected 13 honorary doctorates and medals from the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Institution of Incorporated Engineers.

Adam is also a member of societies as diverse as the British Toilet Association and Association of Lighthouse Keepers.

Two programmes filmed by Adam for the new BBC One series History of the World in 100 Objects will be shown on June 17.