Film critic and broadcaster Mark Kermode got his journalistic break on the magazine City Life in Manchester before moving down to London to write for Time Out, Q Magazine and NME, to name but a few.

He was resident film buff on Radio 1 for many years and can now be heard on Simon Mayo's Radio 5 Live show. Mark has also presented a film series on Radio 2 and Channel 4, written at length about his favourite film, The Exorcist, and plays double bass in a skiffle and blues band.