Career: A four-year slog on the comedy circuit, financed by a string of day jobs, led to Skinner establishing his own club in Birmingham. The work paid off in 1991, when he won the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival ahead of Jack Dee and Eddie Izzard. Fantasy Football League and Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned catapulted Skinner and his co-host David Baddiel into the mainstream during the 1990s and early 2000s. Skinner's solo work has included his own ITV chat show and short-lived sitcom Shane. In 2005, Skinner announced he was to turn his back on TV to return to his stand-up roots, but has since returned with various documentaries and as host of Room 101. He also co-presents a Saturday-morning show on Absolute Radio.

Career: Bakewell eventually returned to work in the early 1960s, and quickly made a name for herself thanks to numerous arts, travel and current affairs programmes. TV's Late Night Line Up made her a national pin-up. Since then she's presented the religious affairs programme Heart of the Matter, written radio plays, published numerous books and become one of the BBC's most respected broadcasters. She currently presents Something Understood for BBC Radio 4 and Belief for BBC Radio 3 and continues to write articles for various newspapers. Her autobiography, The Centre of the Bed, was published in 2004, which hit the headlines thanks to its account of her affair with playwright Harold Pinter, which inspired his 1978 play Betrayal. Her first novel, All the Nice Girls, came out in 2009.