Artistes of the Month
Ian Robertson
For the day job Ian Robertson is the BBC Rugby Correspondent covering both Radio and TV. In the evening he is a very amusing, entertaining and highly articulate after-dinner speaker,
His rugby career ended with a bad knee injury at the age of 25 but by that time he had won "Blues" at both Aberdeen University and Cambridge University, had played for London Scottish and the Barbarians and had won 8 international caps for Scotland. he was vice-captain of Scotland.
He joined the BBC as a rugby commentator in 1972 and has covered almost all major matches all over the world for the past 20 years.
Martin Bayfield
Ex British Lion Martin Bayfield is an extremely entertaining former Rugby Football Player of the Year with a wealth of rugby-related anecdotes. He made his England debut in 1991 and played for the first team until 1998 when he was forced to retire from the game as a result of a serious neck injury.
Penny Smith
Penny Smith is one of Britain's most recognised Television Presenters, probably best known as the main presenter for GMTV News. She regularly fronts GMTV on the sofa and The Reuters News Hour, which is a hard news review of the day ahead. She now has her own two hour weekly show on Classic FM and had a weekly health and beauty column in the Daily Mail.
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