“What we used to have in Britain was professions, and then we had industry. Then at some point, maybe with Margaret Thatcher, we suddenly industrialised our professions. And now we have lawyers with products and banks with products, and lecturers and teachers with products.”

English businessman and former television presenter, radio DJ, writer and producer

Noel Edmonds is an English businessman and former television presenter, radio DJ, writer and producer. He became a familiar voice and face in British broadcasting, with a career that spans radio and television. He first came to notice as a disc jockey on Radio Luxembourg, then moved to BBC Radio 1 and presented its breakfast show for almost five years. He later worked on a range of radio programmes and light-entertainment television shows for the BBC, Sky and Channel 4.