Taffy Thomas is a professional storyteller who gives around 300 storytelling performances across the country each year. One of the UK's most loved storytellers, he was made an MBE in the 2000 New Year's Honours List for services to storytelling and charity. In 2000-2011 he became the first laureate for storytelling, a role created to promote the power of stories. Taffy is the artistic director of the Northern Centre for Storytelling in Grasmere and the author of many collections of folk tales for The History Press. Dotty Kultys is an animator whose work has been at Animafest Zagreb, New York Children's Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, Encounters Festival, Glasgow Short Film Festiva, and Anima Mundi. Carlo Petrini is the founder of the Slow Food Movement, the author of Slow Food Nation, and a past Time magazine Hero of the Year.