Sir Peter Bazalgette

Career: BBC News trainee 1977; TV formats created: Ready Steady Cook (BBC2), Can't Cook Won't Cook (BBC1), Changing Rooms (BBC2), Ground Force (BBC1); formats sold to 30 countries; md Bazal Productions 1987-98, Endemol: UK prodr Big Brother (Channel 4), chm Endemol UK plc 2002-07, gp chief creative offr 2005-07; non-exec dir: Victoria Real, Zeppotron, Channel 4 2001-04, YouGov.com 2005-; dep chm Nat Film and TV Sch 2002-; Ind Prodr of the Year Broadcast Prodn Awards 1997, McTaggart lectr Edinburgh Int TV Festival 1998, Hat Trick Pioneer Award Indies 1998, Indie-vidual Award for Outstanding Personal Contribution to the Ind Sector 2000, RTS Weldon Lecture 2001, Judges' Award RTS 2003; chm Crossness Engines Tst, vice-chm Br Acad of Gastronomes 1993-, tstee ENO 2004-; fell BAFTA 2000, FRTS

Books and Publications: BBC Food Check (jtly, 1989), The Food Revolution (jtly, 1991), You Don't Have to Diet (jtly, 1993), The Big Food and Drink Book (jtly, 1994), Billion Dollar Game (2005)