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Pascale Harter profiles the singer Engelbert Humperdinck who is representing the United Kingdom in the Eurovision song contest on Saturday.

Channel 4's controller Jay Hunt is in the spotlight as audiences continue to fall. Andy Denwood profiles one of the most powerful women in broadcasting.

The brash young leader of the far left-wing bloc 'Syriza', now Greece's second largest party. Andy Denwood profiles Alexis Tsipras, who with his populist anti-austerity message, has become a force that's hard to ignore.

The new England Football Manager is multi-lingual, bookish and the surprise choice for arguably the biggest job in British sport. Gerry Northam profiles Roy Hodgson the man with a 36 year coaching career.

Mary Ann Sieghart examines a man under pressure, the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, Jeremy Hunt.

Chris Bowlby profiles Ralf Hutter, a founding member of the highly influential German electronic band Kraftwerk, who are credited with influencing a host of other musicians.

After North Korea's controversial rocket launch, David Torrance profiles the country's new young leader, Kim Jong-un, as he assumes his nation's top political offices.

The Hunger Games is based on a best –selling book trilogy. Gerry Northam profiles its author, Suzanne Collins. Her trilogy, set in post-apocalypse America, is said to have been inspired by a combination of Greek myth and reality television as well as Collins’ own upbringing as the daughter of an air-force officer who served in Vietnam. So how much do we know about the woman behind the phenomenon now being described as the US equivalent of Harry Potter?

As the threat of possible strike action by fuel tanker drivers looms, Mukul Devichand profiles Len McCluskey, general secretary of their union Unite, the UK's biggest union.

Rosie Goldsmith profiles one of entertainment's most colourful characters, Dame Edna Everage, who is soon to retire from showbusiness.

Claire Bolderson profiles the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, who is working as an unpaid advisor to the UK Government, to help open up policy making to the public.

Chris Bowlby profiles the French Socialist Party presidential candidate Francois Hollande.

As two men begin life sentences for the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence, Andy Denwood profiles Imran Khan the lawyer who helped the teenager's family in their fight for justice.

The children's website Moshi Monsters has 50 million members worldwide. The BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones profiles its founder, 37-year-old Michael Acton Smith.

Emily Buchanan profiles Rowan Williams, poet and scholar, thought by some to be the most talented and intellectual Archbishop of Canterbury for the past 1000 years.