Marverine Cole is a multi-award-winning journalist and broadcaster from Birmingham. Her media and journalism career spans more than thirty years, as a reporter, producer and news anchor for many of the UK’s most watched and listened to broadcasters, including Sky News, 5 News, BBC 5 Live and BBC Radio 4. She also joined the presenting team at Good Morning Britain.

As a TV Newsreader, she’s presented bulletins for the BBC and ITV in the Midlands, and 5 News, live rolling news programmes for Sky News, and a corporate news show for ITN Productions.

As a radio presenter, Marverine has presented speech and phone-in programmes for BBC Radio WM, Up All Night on BBC 5 Live, co-presented Saturday Live with Reverend Richard Coles on BBC Radio 4, and presented afternoon shows on Classic FM. She has also presented several podcasts for BBC Storyworks, Vintage Books and BBC Good Food.

When it comes to radio documentaries, Marverine conceived Luck Be A Lady Tonight about female gambling addicts for BBC Radio 4, Ladies with Lyrics – The Rise of the Female MC for BBC 1Xtra, and executive produced Where are All the Black Girls in Grime for BBC Radio 4. However, she is best known for Black Girls Don’t Cry, a BBC Radio 4 documentary that she produced and presented, and which earned her the accolade of Journalist of the Year at the Mind Media Awards.

Marverine is the resident Beer Columnist for BBC Good Food magazine and online, where she exercises her credentials as an accredited beer sommelier. As one Britain’s leading female beer experts, she’s often seen hosting live beer tastings on ITV shows like Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh, and This Morning. She has also appeared on flagship Channel 4 shows Countdown and Steph’s Packed Lunch.

Marverine has presented lifestyle, food, technology, beauty, and fashion shows for Britain’s most successful and profitable shopping channel QVC. She was the channel’s first Black female main presenter in over twenty years.

Sameena anchors national bulletins for ITV at weekends, and throughout the week on Central Tonight in the Midlands, covering a wide range of stories across daily news and documentaries.

After studying physiology and chemistry, Sameena was drawn to journalism. She first started working on radio in Manchester, and first appeared on air on BBC Radio Lancashire. Sameena remained with the BBC, going back to Manchester before stints on the BBC Asian Network, BBC West Midlands, BBC London, and Radio 5 Live.

On TV (aside from a debut appearance made whilst living in Nigeria on the country’s equivalent of Blue Peter) Sameena presented and reported for Northwest Today, Inside Out, and Midlands Today before moving to ITV.

With a presenting style combining bright and approachable with authoritative, Sameena has won numerous awards during her broadcasting career, including three RTS Midlands Best Screen Personality Awards, for her work on ITV News Central.