June 24, 2018 - PETER BOWES (BBC correspondent) and FRANCESCA MANZI (voice-over artist)

Summary: PETER BOWES, BBC news correspondent, is our featured guest this Sunday night! A native of County Durham, England, PETER moved to the United States in 1996 and became a US citizen in 2008. Based in Los Angeles he covers news, hosts radio shows and makes documentaries. He can been seen and heard regularly on BBC television, radio and digital services covering news from around the United States. In addition, PETER is creator and host of Live Long and Master Aging (LLAMA), a weekly podcast which explores the science and stories behind human longevity. A member of the British film and television academy, BAFTA, PETER has interviewed many Hollywood celebrities, including Cher, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman. He has covered every Oscars ceremony since 1996. In 2011 PETER interviewed the country music legend Glen Campbell, at his home in Malibu. Campbell discussed his final tour and reflected on coping with Alzheimer's disease. In 2016 PETER sat down with Harrison Ford to discuss the veteran actor's role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Ford gave a candid assessment of ability to keep on working into old age and talked about his lucky escape from a plane crash in 2015. Also dropping by the show this Sunday night is FRANCESCA MANZI, actress and voice-over artist. FRANCESCA is currently making a name for herself in the voice over world, particularly in the games arena. She voiced the character of Teenage Kelly 0-87 in the Netflix animated feature "Halo: The Fall of Reach", which was released as part of the "Halo 5: Guardians" game, and also voiced the main character of Phaedra in Insomniac Games popular VR game for Oculus Rift, "The Unspoken". She is currently working on a top-secret VR game for a major network, doing both VO and motion capture for the project. FRANCESCA's voice can also be heard in an upcoming episode of the hit YouTube series from toy company Mattel, Enchantimals, playing the South African character, Zelena Zebra. You can also hear her in various commercials and advertising campaigns, notably as the voice of the South Park's "The Fractured but Whole" video game, and the voice of Comcast XFinity's Rio Olympics campaign in 2016. She has also lent her vocal talents to companies such as Marriott International, Mastercard, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, SBE Hotels, Accenture, Facebook, Volkswagen, BNP Paribas, Pfizer and Unilver, to name a few.