Who we are.
We’re sisters and best friends, and we’ve always loved making things together – starting with a hand-drawn comic that we created as children more than 30 years ago. Experts in our respective fields, knowledgeable and curious, we’ve never taken ourselves too seriously. We guarantee we’ll bring you all the expertise you’d expect from two of Britain’s leading cultural commentators, but there’ll also be a healthy dose of warmth, irreverence and new perspectives. People called us ‘The Carbon Copies’ because we looked and sounded so alike – so maybe it was inevitable that we ended up creating The CC.
Suzy is an award-winning broadcaster who has worked in arts and culture broadcasting for more than 20 years with the BBC, Sky, RSC, ENO, Royal Opera and others. Starting out as a producer and director in BBC Television, she then presented the Radio 3 Breakfast show. She currently hosts the station's most listened-to show, Essential Classics, presents The Proms and has written and presented a series of acclaimed documentaries on subjects from 18th-century music to a history of light entertainment. She is Creative Lead of BBC Talent, an initiative she created to nurture new broadcasters.
Jacky is an art historian, author and broadcaster. She worked as a curator at the Tate, Courtauld and Hayward galleries before moving into art publishing at Thames & Hudson, Phaidon, Tate and HENI. Associate Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute, she has taught at arts institutions including Christie’s Education, the National Gallery and the V&A, and is a trustee of the UK Association for Art History. Author of a bestselling monograph on the artist Grayson Perry, she has co-authored a number of books including Body of Art and What is Contemporary Art? A Children’s Guide which she and Suzy co-wrote. She regularly appears on radio, TV and online for the BBC, Channel 5, Sony, Bloomberg TV, Art Fund and Christie’s.