Paula Kahumbu: Hands Off Our Elephants

Paula Kahumbu has devoted her life to saving African wildlife. Brought up on a farm on the outskirts of Nairobi, she tells us how her childhood neighbour became her mentor in conservation. Paula is now the chief executive of the Kenya-based Wildlife Direct charity.

Mark Weingard is a British businessman who has cheated death three times. On 11 September 2001, he was late for a meeting in the World Trade Center; a year later his fiancée was killed in the Bali bombings; and he was on a beach in Thailand in 2004, when the tsunami swept in.

Multi-million selling American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow has overcome breast cancer and adopted a baby boy in recent years. Now having moved to Nashville, the home of American country music, she talks about its influence on her latest record.

Picture: Paula Kahumbu