 | Viv was previously co-director of WORLDwrite, a hardcore charity that demands ‘Ferraris for all’ and which runs online citizen-TV channel WORLDbytes. She also runs the Young Journalists’ Academy which was started by spiked and is now a thriving independent programme that offers free opportunities for state-school students to break into journalism. |
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Piers Hellawell, composer; professor of composition, Queen’s University Belfast
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