TALK management recommends John Sergeant as an After Dinner Speaker, Keynote Conference Speaker, Celebrity Speaker, Facilitator and Conference or Awards Host.

Former political editor for ITN John Sergeant has had a wide-ranging career, reporting on conflicts in many parts of the world, including Vietnam, the Middle East and Southern Africa, before settling down as a political correspondent. In 1999 he was voted the Best Individual Television Contributor of the Year at the Voice of the Listener and Viewer Awards for 1999. After 30 years as political editor for the BBC John Sergeant moved to ITN.

John Sergeant often travelled with the prime minister of the day, including Margaret Thatcher and John Major as well as Tony Blair. He has presented all the main news programmes on Radio 4, including the Today programme and The World at One.

John Seargeant`s first love was comedy and prior to establishing himself as a well respected reporter he had dreams of becoming a professional comedian. In 1966, Alan Bennett chose him from the cast of the Oxford University comedy revue at the Edinburgh Festival to appear in the award-winning BBC TV comedy series On the Margin with Alan Bennett. John had already been accepted as a news trainee with Reuters but gave that up to work with Bennett. In recent years However, he has been allowed to return to his first love in broadcasting: light entertainment, appearing as a guest in a wide variety of programmes, such as, Room 101, the News Quiz on Radio 4 and Have I Got News for You - Ian Hislop said he had been one of the funniest guests in the history of the programme.

In 2002, John Sergeant published his best-selling memoirs, Give Me Ten Seconds and he is now writing a book about Margaret Thatcher, who made him well known following the famous `handbagging incident` outside the Paris Embassy two days before she resigned in 1990.

John Sergeant is a highly entertaining and funny after dinner and conference speaker.


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