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This is the Top-Ten list, so far. If you don’t agree with it, then you must get a few friends to download your favourites and bump them up the score-sheet.

1. Richard Holloway
2. Alain de Botton
3. Prof Raymond Tallis
4. Julie Burchill & Chas Newkey-Burden
5. Ziyad Marar
6. Julian Baggini
7. Lynsey Hanley
8. Philip Escoffey
9. Christopher Hitchens
10. Ian Haworth

Ones that just missed a place on the list include:

James Randi, Dr Mark Vernon, Prof David Colquhoun, Dr Simon Singh, Jon Ronson (twice), Francis Wheen, Stewart Lee and Dr Ben Goldacre (who will also be next weeks guest).

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Philip Escoffey

Written by Neil Denny

Friday, 18 July 2008 00:00

Philip Escoffey AKA The Grey Man, is one of the UK’s top psychic illusionist/mind readers. A Psychology graduate, Philip has been earning a living as a mentalist for the last 10 years. A confirmed skeptic, Philip is dismissive of spiritualists, mediums and astrologers. However, he has a deep academic interest in the reasons why people need to believe and is an expert in how techniques like cold-reading are employed by psychics the world over. To this end, Philip was recently seen adding a little balance to five’s Britain’s Psychic Challenge. Philip is currently previewing his stage show “Six Impossible Things Before Dinner” in London, before embarking on a month long residency at the Pleasance Theatre Edinburgh. http://littleatoms.com iTunes subscribe

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Padraig Reidy and Neil Denny are Joined by Rosie Waterhouse.

Rosie Waterhouse is a lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Publishing at City University and a freelance journalist with extensive experience as an investigative reporter, having worked on the staff of five national newspapers and as a TV reporter. She has twice been a member of the Sunday Times Insight team and worked for the Independent and Independent on Sunday, where she was investigations editor, and for BBC Newsnight, where she contributed to a BAFTA for a film revealing how BSE had spread through the animal feed chain.

Her investigations have included: revealing the existence of the River Companies, a secret network of companies run by the Conservative Party to launder political donations from companies; babies for sale; MPs for hire. After investigating the origins and spread of allegations of Satanic ritual child abuse she was the first British journalist to reveal it was a myth.

As a freelance, Rosie has contributed articles to The Guardian’s G2 section, the New Statesman, the Daily Mail, the Mail on Sunday, the Times Educational Supplement, GQ, The Oldie and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Search magazine. She has most recently contributed a series of articles in Private Eye on the Satanic Panic. Her television contributions include working as consultant on a BBC Newsnight film on the recent Satanic child abuse panic on the Isle of Lewis, and as research consultant on a BBC Real Story documentary on the Rochdale Satanic abuse controversy.

The usual time and place, Resonance 104.4FM Friday 28th March at 19.00.

http://www.littleatoms.com/

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