Bettany Hughes

 She is a visiting research fellow at King's College London, formerly a tutor for Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education, and an honorary fellow at Cardiff University.Hughes has written and produced numerous documentaries and television series on both ancient and modern subjects. In 2009, she won the Naomi Sargant Special Award in recognition of excellence in educational broadcasting and in 2012 she was presented with the Norton Medlicott Award for her services to history by the Historical Association, of which she is an honorary fellow.In 2010 she presented the Hellenic Institute's Tenth Annual lecture "Ta Erotika: The Things of Love", and in 2011, she delivered the Royal Television Society's Huw Wheldon Memorial Lecture. In it, she argued that history on television is alive and flourishing, and is experiencing a new golden age. She was chair of the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction [the UK's sole annual fiction prize for women]