HARVEYLEACH - Key Persons

Andrew Harvey spent 23 years as one of the main news presenters on BBC TV News, followed by five years at ITN. He has been media training for 30 years. Andrew was one of the main news presenters on BBC TV News. During his time at the BBC, Andrew fronted all their daily news programmes. More recently he was senior presenter on the 24-hour ITV news channel. He covered many major events in that period, from 9/11 and the London bombings in 2005, to nine general elections and two Royal funerals. As an independent producer he has made corporate programmes for clients such as Lloyds Bank, Tesco and the AA. He has won awards for writing and producing programmes on Aids and meningitis (he is President of Meningitis Now). "My most memorable ‘interview' was with Margaret Thatcher as she showed me round 10 Downing Street, and described the pains and pleasures of living there. She apologised about the bikes left lying around in the rear lobby! I had only been allowed in to take pictures for Denis Thatcher's 60th birthday by pretending to be a photographer."

Jenny Percival has spent almost 20 years working for national newspapers and broadcasters. She has been media training for seven years. During a decade as a political correspondent in the Westminster lobby for Sky News and The Scotsman, Jenny interviewed prime ministers and politicians ‘live' on air and in formal interviews. As part of Sky's award-winning coverage of the 7/7 bombings she reported from Downing Street and interviewed the then home secretary Charles Clarke. Jenny has also worked as a news reporter for Times Online, BBC News Online and The Guardian. She has covered murders and terrorism trials, scientific breakthroughs, Royal funerals and celebrity divorces. Assignments have taken her from European summits and the World Economic Forum in Davos to run down housing estates in London. "I've relished big political interviews with the likes of Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron. I once enjoyed the double bonus of an exclusive interview and a free lift home from Switzerland on Mr Brown's RAF flight back to London. And door-stepping pop superstar Michael Jackson in the House of Commons was simply bizarre. But the interviews I have found truly humbling and therefore most memorable were those with people whose lives were devastated by tragic events - the families who lost loved ones in the Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland and the young orphan who fled war-torn Somalia to make a new life in London."