Australian Broadcasting Corp.

John Jacobs has been working as a radio sound engineer/producer for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for 18 years. Now specializing in features and documentaries, with a personal preference for socially progressive issues, Jacobs enjoys the opportunity to work with voices in a rhythmic/melodic way.

Lisa Millar is a senior journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, working in both radio and television as a journalist and presenter. She was a foreign correspondent for the ABC in Washington, D.C., for three years and has covered major stories in Asia, London and America, including the 2005 Bali bombing and the controversial hanging of an Australian drug runner in Singapore. She won a Walkley Award for investigative reporting in 2005.

Study English is presented by Adelaide based actor and performer Margot Politis, who is also the host of the ABC Education program Like It Is. Margot graduated in 2003 from Flinders University Drama Centre with an Honours degree in Creative Arts and Drama Performance. That year she performed a self devised solo physical theatre work, Hospitality, as part of the Cabaret Fringe at the Weimar Room; and in 2004 toured schools performing Doorways to Stories with Splash Theatre Company. As well as presenting the first series of Study English in 2004, Margot received a 'Foot in the Door' grant from the Australia Council for the Arts Dance Board which she used to work with Restless Dance Company for a year.

Philip Williams is a senior reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Since joining the ABC in 1984, Williams has covered many violent and tragic stories around the world, including: the Beslan school siege; the December 2004 South Asian tsunami; the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; the Bali bombings; the Madrid bombings; the 1995 Kobe earthquake in Japan; the fall of President Suharto in Indonesia; and the events following the 1999 referendum in East Timor.