Draft:Duncan Harrison

Duncan Harrison is Head of Content for Crack (magazine) and one of the Directors at their creative agency CC Co. As a music journalist, Harrison is known for his sharp writing style, focussing primarily on contemporary UK culture.

He is also known as the student from Bristol, who won the BBC's The Speaker competition, winning the title of Britain's best young speaker.

Harrison first attended Helen O'Grady Drama, then Bristol School of Performing Arts, where he performed in in-house productions of Oliver as Oliver, Aladdin as Wishy Washy, Joseph and the TDC and many other productions.

On his Speaker profile, Harrison described himself as "a team player... so long as he's the leader!"

He is the younger brother of actor Angus Harrison.

The Speaker
Harrison attended the regional auditions in Cardiff, and reached the top five with his speech on global warming, titled 'Hot, fast and electrical life'. He proceeded to the next round, where he had to speak about why he should win the competition at Wembley Arena. He was one of the few competitors who managed to speak ex tempore and was placed in the top 10, later progressing to the top 8, after impressing celebrity mentor Deborah Meaden at Speaker's corner, where he had to speak spontaneously about an alarm clock.

Throughout the series, Harrison developed as a contestant, working on his flaws and engaging in challenges of increasing difficulty and competitiveness as the show developed. Alastair Campbell helped mentor the contestants in the art of persuasion.

In the final round of The Speaker the three finalists were flown to Malawi to research children's rights, then return home, and give a final speech about their experiences. Each finalist was given an aspect of children's rights to talk about. In this final speech Harrison was given the ctop of hildren's right to education. He spoke last out of the three competitors. andwwas crowned the inner, awarding him the title of Britain's best young Speaker.

In his exit speech, Harrison said that the competition had shown him "not only about speaking, but about life."