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Oliver is the lead curator for the Natural History Museum鈥檚 fish collection. He is responsible for the maintenance and enhancement of the collection and is a spokesperson for PR and media activity surrounding it.

Oliver started at the Museum in 1993 as a Higher Scientific Officer, before becoming Curator in 1996.

He is a member of the British Record Fish Committee, which is responsible for ratifying British marine identifications and the Food Standards Agency鈥檚 Fish Expert Group.

Dexter Petley is a novelist and angler and lives in a caravan in Normandy, where he divides his time between catching carp and writing. His most recent book is a memoir called Love, Madness, Fishing about his time growing up in 60鈥檚 and 70鈥檚 Kent and Sussex.

Timon Screech is Professor of the History of Art at SOAS, University of London. He has also taught at numerous universities including Chicago, Heidelberg, Meiji and Waseda. He is an expert on the art and culture of the Edo Period, including its international dimension, and has published some dozen books on the subject.

His best-known work is probably Sex and the Floating World, a study of erotica, and he has recently competed a field-defining overview of the Edo arts, Obtaining Images. His work has been translated into French, Japanese, Korean, Polish and Romanian. He is currently completing a book of the use of art in the early sailings of the East India Company.

Stephen Varcoe grew up in London where eventually he found himself working in the advertising industry. He moved to Budapest in 1996 where he lived and worked until 2013. Upon returning to the UK with his wife Marta Aron he became the joint proprietor of Aron's Jewish Delicatessen in Bristol. They have one little girl and two large dogs.