After Dinner Speakers: Sue Lawley, Herbert Giradet, Nelson Mandela

Sue Lawley has presented Desert Island Discs since March 1988. Born in Dudley in the West Midlands in July 1946, Sue started her career as a trainee journalist with the Western Mail and the South Wales Echo in Cardiff. She joined the BBC in 1970 as a freelance researcher and, in 1972, became one of the main presenters of the early evening current affairs programme, Nationwide. She went on to present the Nine O’clock News and the Six O’clock News during which time her supposedly invisible legs were immortalised by Morecambe and Wise. She regularly presents programmes on BBC television, and has stood in as presenter on Question Time and Wogan. A hugely respected and admired broadcaster, Angela is a great personality to have at any event.