Baroness Daphne Park Former diplomat and senior controller for MI6 in Hanoi, Moscow and the Congo. Has been Principal of Somerville College, Oxford and a Governor of the BBC. Now an active member of the House of Lords.

Matthew Parris Award winning journalist and author. Was a Conservative MP 1979-86. Has a weekly column in the Times and writes for The Spectator. Has published many books on travel and politics, and an autobiography, Chance Witness.

Reverend Peter Owen-Jones The public face of the Church of England is being given a new look by a Cambridgeshire vicar who loves to smoke, drink and skinny dip. His varied career ranges from advertising executive to priest.

Rowan Pelling Founded the Erotic Review, after working on GQ magazine and Private Eye. Weekly columnist for The Independent on Sunday’s comment pages. She writes a sex column for The Mail on Sunday’s You magazine.

Sue Perkins Comedian and writer, half of the comedy partnership Mel and Sue. Has appeared on Celebrity Big Brother 2003 and as Barbara Dickson on Celebrity Stars in their Eyes.

Andrew Pierce Assistant Editor of the Times. For four years, co-presented the highly acclaimed politics show Sunday Service on Radio 5 and is now the regular political commentator on LBC.

Hannah Pool Writes ‘The New Black’ column and is commissioning editor for Guardian, Weekend Magazine. Her first book, My Father’s Daughter, is the story of her life as the black daughter of white adoptive parents and her journey Eritrea to find her family.

Henry Porter London editor of Vanity Fair, Observer columnist and novelist. His film, Suspect Nation sets out to discover how close our world has come to the dystopian future depicted in George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'.

Steve Pound MP Labour MP for Ealing North since 1997. Has had a varied career including working as a seaman, bus conductor and hospital porter. As the Guardian says of him, he is "Austin Mitchell's only rival as Labour's best stand up comedian".

Steve Punt British writer, comedian and actor, most famous for his long-time partnership with Hugh Dennis. Punt and Dennis performed in their own TV sketch show, The Imaginatively Titled Punt & Dennis Show, and co-wrote and starred in the sitcom Me, You & Him.