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Katie Hopkins was born on 13 February 1975 in Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK. She is an actress, known for An Evening with Joelle Westwood (2023), Love in Harmony Valley (2020) and PBD Podcast (2020). She has been married to Mark Cross since 2010. They have one child. She was previously married to Damien G. D. McKinney.

Richard Eyre was born on 28 March 1943 in Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for Notes on a Scandal (2006), Iris (2001) and Stage Beauty (2004). He has been married to Sue Birtwistle since 1973.

Peter is a British stage and screen actor who is also a naturalized German citizen. Born in Barnstaple, England, he started his acting career on stage at the world famous Leeds City Varieties in 1994. Other regional theatre engagements were followed by a stint on local TV as a presenter. Moving to Europe he took on more voice work and became a founding member of an English speaking theatre company in Leipzig, Germany. He is known for Uncharted (dir. Ruben Fleischer), the award winning short film Swiped, in which he starred and produced, as well as Coronation Street in the UK, Gute Zeiten Schlechte Zeiten in Germany and the Russian films Chempion Mira and Diversant IV. His upcoming TV projects include the international production Concordia.

Philippa Crabb was born on 7 April 1992 in Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK. She is a production manager and producer, known for Mr Bates vs. The Post Office (2024), Detectorists (2014) and Romantic Getaway (2023).

Tim Wonnacott was born on 12 March 1951 in Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK.

Katharine Tozer was born on 31 July 1907 in Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK. Katharine was a writer, known for Here Comes Mumfie (1975) and Magic Adventures of Mumfie (1994). Katharine was married to Robert James McCallum Tozer. Katharine died on 6 August 1943 in Surrey, England, UK.

Snowy White was born on 3 March 1948 in Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Top of the Pops (1964), Three Up Two Down (1985) and Snowy White: Bird of Paradise (1984).

JODY is an award-winning screenwriter, author and playwright whose work is renowned for its strong characters and original concepts.

In 2013, Jody wrote his debut feature film The Adored, which went on to enjoy worldwide distribution, winning Best Film at the Durban Film Festival in South Africa as well as earning three official selections in Poland, Germany and the USA.

In 2015, he released his debut paperback novel The Moors, which was the first print book launched by his own publishing company, Pen Works Media.

Jody's interactive novel The Somerton Man is due for release in 2018, and he was recently commissioned to write a TV Pilot for an original political drama / thriller, titled Shadow Empire. Although he can announce that he has recently been assigned as the sole screenwriter to a British/Indian crossover film by Universal Entertainment, although the project is the subject of a non-disclosure agreement.

2018 will also see the release of a hat-trick of original plays titled The Architect, The Intruder and The Banker's Daughter, set to establish him as an exciting new playwright in the mould of Arthur Miller, Martin McDonagh and Harold Pinter.

When not juggling on his numerous projects, Jody can be found spending time with his daughter in Devon or people-watching in Crouch End, North London, whilst sipping on his Waitrose latte.

Marianne Morley was born on 22 December 1928 in Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Damsel (2007) and On the Razzle (1983). She was married to Donald Morley. She died on 4 March 2013 in Mortlake, Surrey, England, UK.

Phil Vickery was born on 14 March 1976 in Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK.

David Vine was a multi-purpose sports presenter and commentator for the BBC for 35 years, long associated with snooker and Ski Sunday. Known for his distinctive West Country tones, he always had the assured self-confidence to weather jokes about his middle-of-the-road spectacles and jumpers.

In the 1970s, so often was he targeted that he began to seem like a resident character in Clive James's Observer television column. Once, commenting on the return of one programme with which Vine was instantly identifiable, James wrote: "Back came Ski Sunday, bringing David Vine with it. 'Just watch the way this man has the rhythm through the gates ... ooh, and he's gone! Stenmark has gone!' By now even David must be falling prey to the suspicion that he has the evil eye. All he has to do is start praising a skier for his rhythm and you know the stretcher-bearers are already moving in."

Vine's star status was confirmed when a puppet of the snooker player Steve Davis was seen on Spitting Image boasting: "I'm a mate of David Vine." Later, his popularity led to cameo appearances in French and Saunders (1987) and as a skating commentator alongside the bungling sleuths played by Jasper Carrott and Robert Powell in The Detectives (1993).

Born in Newton Abbot, Devon, Vine was brought up in Barnstaple, where he attended the local grammar school before becoming a reporter on the North Devon Journal Herald. A keen rugby player, he played for South Molton and often covered matches in which he was taking part. After national service in the army's Intelligence Corps, he joined the Western Morning News in Plymouth and rose to be sports editor. Moving to the ITV regional company Westward Television (1962-66), he set up its sports department and was seen on screen as a reporter.

In 1966, the BBC hired Vine as a presenter of the national magazine show Sportscene and he was soon a familiar face in sports coverage on both BBC1 and BBC2. He was a stand-in presenter on the Saturday afternoon programme Grandstand, became a reporter on Rugby Special and hosted the first colour broadcasts from Wimbledon in 1967, remaining presenter of the tennis tournament's highlights programmes until 1982. Any viewers who thought of him as bland had to revise their opinions when he confronted John McEnroe following the US player's "you're the pits" jibe to a Wimbledon umpire in 1981. "What right have you got to call anyone an incompetent fool?" Vine asked McEnroe. "He told me he'd never talk to me again after that," the presenter recalled, "but he did, the following day."

Vine's face was also synonymous with snooker and skiing. Snooker had already built up a television following with Pot Black, which featured the BBC's own knockout snooker competition, when, in 1977, Vine started presenting its coverage of all the major tournaments. Eight years later, 18 million viewers saw Dennis Taylor take the World Championship title with the final black ball of the final frame against the then world No 1, Steve Davis.

"I have been delighted to have been part of one of the most successful and most watched sports on television and to have seen 'unknowns' like Steve Davis, Jimmy White, Stephen Hendry and many others become some of the most famous names in the sport," said Vine after presenting his final tournament in 2000.

Ski Sunday was launched in 1978 after public interest in Franz Klammer's dramatic downhill win at the 1976 Innsbruck Winter Olympic Games, and Vine continued with it for 18 years.

Throughout his time at the BBC, Vine proved adept at hosting sports entertainment programmes. He was a presenter and commentator for the first few years of It's a Knockout (1967-71), whose absurd games between amateur athletics teams in crazy costumes were described by one critic as "a competition to perform the pointless in the quickest possible time".

He will also be remembered by many as the first presenter (1970-78) of the quiz show A Question of Sport, in which two panels of stars - originally captained by the boxer Henry Cooper and the former Welsh rugby international Cliff Morgan - had their sports knowledge put to the test. The busy Vine was succeeded by David Coleman in the chair.

Then came The Superstars (1974-84), in which Vine and Ron Pickering challenged sportsmen and women, past and present, to compete against each other in running, swimming, shooting, canoeing and cycling events, as well as showing their strengths in the gym.

Vine also hosted showjumping events, including The Horse of the Year Show, commentated on bowls and gymnastics, and covered the return to Britain of the round-the-world yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnston. Away from sport, he commentated on the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest and, a year later, presented Miss World.

He underwent triple heart bypass surgery in 2001, the year after he retired from the BBC following his final Olympics, in Sydney, as a weightlifting commentator - a specialism he had developed over many games.

Vine's first wife, Shirley May Thorpe, died in 1970; he was survived by his second wife, Mandy (born Joan C Silver), along with their son, Christian, and the son and two daughters of his first marriage, Martin, Kim and Katherine.

Hubert Bath was born on 6 November 1883 in Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK. He was a composer, known for The 39 Steps (1935), Blackmail (1929) and Chu Chin Chow (1934). He was married to Dorothy M. Giffin. He died on 24 April 1945 in Harefield, Middlesex, England, UK.

Daniel Jefferson was born in Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK. He is known for Where Seagulls Cry a Song (2009), Salaam-E-Ishq (2007) and Rubicon or: Let's Talk About Hell (2013).

Walter Summers was born on 2 September 1896 in Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK. He was a writer and director, known for Raise the Roof (1930), Hell's Cargo (1935) and The Human Monster (1939). He died in April 1973 in Wandsworth, London, England, UK.

Born in 1972, Tony grew up in a small village in the south west of England and has been making films since graduating from film school in 2002. Previous films have screened at the Newport Beach Film Festival, Cincinnati Film Festival, Indie Spirit Film Festival and screenings at Cannes Short Film Corner, Exeter Picturehouse and the short film Dentally Does It screened on Sky TV.

Tony continues to make short films as well as developing feature length projects.

Frances Lovering was born on 3 February 1907 in Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Citadel (1960), Crossroads (1964) and No Hiding Place (1959). She was married to Nicholas Grimshaw. She died in 1969 in Merton, Surrey, England, UK.

John Powe was born on 9 September 1904 in Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Brandy for the Parson (1952), Meet Sexton Blake! (1945) and Just William's Luck (1948). He died on 10 March 1952 in Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK.

John Gay was born on 30 June 1685 in Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Emma (1996), Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945) and The Beggar's Opera (1953). He died on 4 December 1732 in London, England, UK.

Paul Kaye was born on 17 February 1934 in Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK. He died in 1980 in England, UK.

Kit Brennan was born on 14 July 1990 in Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Feral Generation (2007), We Were F(r)iends (2011) and The Innocent (2006).

Ruthene Leclerc was born on 9 August 1913 in Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Waltz Time (1945) and Here Come the Boys (1948). She died on 8 June 1992 in Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire, England, UK.

Mel Jones was born on 11 August 1972 in Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Cricket 19 (2019), Cricket 22 (2021) and A Question of Sport (1970).