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Jack Challoner

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Always frustrated by lack of clarity in books he read as a child, Jack long felt the need to make the amazing things that science and technology have achieved accessible to a wide audience. After studying physics in London, he trained as a science and maths teacher, then worked at London's Science Museum, in the education department and in their flagship interactive gallery, Launch Pad. Jack left the museum in 1991 to write science and technology books, and to write and perform science shows in museums, libraries and schools. He's been doing all that ever since, with nearly forty books to his name. He also...

Tamzin Merchant

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Tamzin is an actor. She spends a lot of her time dressing up and pretending to be other people, often in very elegant or eccentric period costumes. She started out at the age of 17 in the 2005 film of Pride and Prejudice, playing Georgiana Darcy. Since then, her acting work has taken her around the world and on a journey through time. She has been a Tudor, a Victorian and a Jacobean. She survived the Blitz in 1940 and succumbed to pneumonia in Edwardian times. She's been an alien, a witch, a doomed Queen and a rebel medieval Scottish warrior. She has also written and directed several award-winning short films....