Past Speakers
Jane Lighting
John Bartle
2003
Sly Bailey
Barbara Cassani
Tracy Edwards MBE
Dawn Airey
Lorraine Heggessey
2001
Baroness Jay
Brigadier Patricia Purves
Janet Street- Porter
Shelley Lazarus
2000
Helen Boaden
David Abbot
Susan Lopert
Wildivam Hague
Nicholas Coleridge
1999
Mr Alan Rusbridger
Trevor McDonald
Amanda Wakely
1998
Dame Stella Rimington
1997
Mr Ian Hislop
1996
Mr Richard Eyre
1995
Mr David Puttenham
1993
Sir George Carman
1991
Mr Bernard Ingham
1990
Mr David Ogilvy
1988
Sir George Christie
1987
Mr Jonathan Ross
1986
Dr Rachael Waterhouse CBE
1985
Sir Kenneth Newman
1984
Lord MacGregor of Durris
1982
Dame Edna Everidge
1981
Rt Hon Denis Healey MP
1979
Mr Frank Lowe
Miss Jean Rook
1976
Mr David Abbott
1975
Mr Jeremy Bullmore
1971
Mr Ned Sherrin
Hon Sir Marcus Sieff OBE, BA
1970
Lord Carrington
1969
Mr Victor Feather
1966
Rt Hon Edward Heath MP
1965
Lord Thomson of Fleet
1961
Huw Wheldon
HRH Prince Chula of Thailand
1959
Madame Ginette Spanier
1954
Dame Edith Evans
1952
Mr Hardy Amies
1950
20 Questions Team: Messrs John Arlott, Ian Messiter, Jack Train, Misses Anona Winn, Joy Adamson, Margaret Stratton
1941
Mr Robert Boothby MP
1938
Miss Flora Robson
1934
Mr Harold McMillan MP
1931
Mr Stanley Baldwin
1930
Miss Jennie Lee MP
1926
David Lloyd George