Capital Scotland’s breakfast co-host has also fronted the topical BBC show, Breaking the News. In cabaret the one-time sports reporter comes up with a stream of half-formed sentences, stupendous one-liners and spine-tingling wordplay.


Biography

Des Clarke is a successful young Scottish comedian and a popular, Sony Radio Award winning presenter. He has appeared as host, performer and guest on a raft of sport, lifestyle and entertainment shows.

Onstage Des combines cleverness with childlike energy and infectious enthusiasm, appealing to any audience. He has won awards from the BBC, Channel 4 and the Daily Telegraph, and received a Sony for his part in the North by North North sketch show.

Des’ big break came as co-host on SM:TV Live. Since then he has fronted the MTV Europe Awards and Children in Need. He presents Des Clarke’s Friday Feeling on BBC Radio Scotland, offers a comic take on the week’s sport on 5 Live, fronts BBC Scotland’s Children in Need coverage, and writes an occasional column for the Daily Record.

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Speakers Breakfast

Looking Ahead to International Women’s Day 2025

Speakers
Maryam Moshiri, Maggie Alphonsi, Penny Mordaunt, and Dr Julia Ebner

The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is Accelerate Action, a call to take urgent steps to prioritise gender equality through addressing the systemic barriers and biases that women face. We are pleased to welcome a panel of speakers who have achieved remarkable things in their respective fields.

Location

Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH

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Speakers Breakfast

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Paul McKenna and Guenther Steiner

Date TBC.  We will be looking at high-performance and mindset with our two excellent speakers.

Location

Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH

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