Kids in Museums

John Waite is one of the most familiar voices on Radio 4. In a career spanning more than three decades, he has presented programmes such as Today, with John Humphrys, and You and Yours. He presents Radio 4’s investigative series Face the Facts. He has received three Sony awards as reporter/ broadcaster of the year.

Bali Rai is a teen fiction writer whose books include (Un)arranged Marriage, Dream On, The Angel Collector and the Soccer Squad series. Dream On was selected for the Booktrust’s inaugural Booked Up list, to be available free to every Year 7 school child in the UK. Bali’s second novel for young adults, The Crew won two regional awards and his third, Rani and Sukh and fourth The Whisper were both been short-listed for The Booktrust Teenage Prize.

Nick Poole is Chief Executive of the Collections Trust, the lead organisation in the UK for the provision of support, advice and training to collections in their management, use and exploitation of rights.Prior to joining the Collections Trust, Nick was a policy adviser to the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, covering areas including Technology and Regional Policy. He is a Councillor of the Museums Association, and also sits on the Association’s Ethics Committee. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Museums Copyright Group and a trustee of the eLearning Group for Museums. He has acted as an expert adviser to national and international funding programmes and currently represents the UK on the Member States Expert Group at the European Parliament.

Andrew Wheatcroft is the author of many pioneering books on early modern and modern history, including The Ottomans - dissolving images,The Habsburgs - embodying empire, Infidels - a history of the conflict between ‘Christendom’ and ‘Islam’. His latest book is The Enemy at the Gate (The Bodley Head August 2008). Previously a senior international publisher, he moved to the University of Stirling in 1992 where he is Professor of International Publishing and Communication and Director of the Centre for Publishing Studies.

Janet Dugdale is Director of Urban History at National Museums Liverpool. Currently working on the new Museum of Liverpool, she was formerly Keeper of the hugely popular Museum of Liverpool Life. She has also worked for Potteries Museum, Stoke-on-Trent and Museum of Lakeland Life & Industry, Kendal, Cumbria.

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